Humberto Santana
Production
Known For

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
They Shot the Piano Player

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
A Bear Named Wojtek

Autobiographical documentary about an Easter vacation spent by the Ruivo’s family in the country town of Castelo de Vide, where the resurrection of Christ is traditionally celebrated with a “rattle” with a pagan resonance.
Easter
The leader of the opposition to the government is murdered. Behind the headlines: a complex conspiracy, a corrupt power and three female assassins.
The Pits
A woman sells her work to the most depraved sexual fantasies in the virtual space. But everything is preferable to the reality of his days full of pain and loneliness and M becomes the super operator of the largest pornography company on the globe.
A Fantasista

Excess baggage, an old flame and new encounters.
Final Call

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O Campo à Beira Mar
A young woman murdered, a police investigation, an highly improbable motive. But Inspector Q does not give up and a deranged killer finds the police net closing around him.
Um Caso Bicudo
What if inside each person exist an unique song, a genetic code composed by notes and musical scale, a melody that reflects what we are as human beings, as a person, our qualities, faults, our fears, our forces, all what’s good and evil that pulses in our veins? Imagine now that you had the skill to hear those melodies, the gift of listening to people. The gift or maybe it’s the curs? This is the story of a man with that ability…
Silêncio
One guy, whom we can call X, leads a monotonous life with work, family and football. But one day the club loses ...
Dies Irae

The odyssey of a man who became a hermit for ills of love and receives a pair of angel wings after defeating the demon.
O Desalmado

When an ill Kafka meets a crying little girl in the park, he sets out to write her a letter a day in order to tell her all about her lost doll's fictitious travels.
Kafka's Doll

The near future: Bruno is trying to win back his ex-wife. Under the pressure of her domineering mother and a new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is trialed and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he gets within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But that doesn’t stop Bruno, he practices holding his breath.
Sem Respirar

From a primordial tree, in a primordial earth the primordial Being is born. Involved by a hostile world, this virtuous being in all its animal fullness is metamorphosing into an intelligent force destined to subject brute force.
28 de Outubro

Three women go on a road trip from Lisbon to the South of Portugal to meet the newest member of the family who's about to be born.
Something I Said
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Sem Dúvida, Amanhã

A large group of people gather around a table for a meal. Food is served under a noisy, almost circus atmosphere. Gifts are made and congratulations are sung. At some point there are already those who sleep, who read, who date. The environment is increasingly fragmented. In the end there is only dirty dishes and silence.
Table

When a doctor sees her wife going through depression, he comes up with all sorts of ways to cheer her up, but no matter how hard he tries, things just get more complicated.
The Doctor's Wife

A man finds reasons to delay something important he has to do.
Something Important
Swept away by the current of the turbulent period in Portugal's recent history known as PREC (Ongoing Revolutionary Process), which followed the April 25th revolution that overthrew the dictatorship and ended the colonial wars, a young teenager is influenced by the radical excesses of Maoist ideology and finds himself entangled in an adventure hardly appropriate for his age.