Joana Domingues

A tormented psychologist and an inspector unite to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal town.​´​As they unravel the crime, they battle their own personal demons and strive to keep their lives intact.​ In a town where everyone hides something and is willing to do anything to protect their loved ones, the quest for truth may cost more than Júlia imagines, as from the moment the secrets of the past are revealed, everything becomes irreversible.

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.

What if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?

In a small Portuguese town, a family is turned upside down when their son leaves to study in London. Over a year, we see a daughter's coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son's emancipation and a mother coping with an "empty nest"

What happens when you're alone? It's just another day in his life and he thinks he's a good, good boy. Boy is a short film directed by Bruno Gascon and features Duarte Grilo as a man who is trapped in a house. It's a heavy film, a psychological thriller about a deprivation of liberty and what happens when we get too much time alone.

Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that 340 million people worldwide, suffer from depression. This represents approximately 850 000 suicides a year. The WHO also warns that 75% of people with depression don't receive adequate treatment. There are more and more requests for help from people alone, depressed and with suicidal thoughts. 'Vazio' is the story of a middle-aged man who has lost everything and is faced with the most overwhelming of all evil: the emptiness.

“C for Coffee” is a series of informal conversations between directors, about cinema, around a coffee table. The eight conversations, which form the four episodes of the series, took place during the Porto/Post/Doc, Punto de Vista, IndieLisboa and Curtas Vila do Conde festivals, in emblematic cafés in each city.