Francisco Mira Godinho
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Biography
Francisco Mira Godinho, born August 30th 1993, has a degree in Psychology from ISPA University, and in Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the Major in North American Studies, from Nova University. He works as a director and screenwriter. He worked in films like Baan (2023, Locarno) and Dogs that Bark at the Birds (2019, Venice), by Leonor Teles, Moço (2020, Sophia), by Bernardo Lopes and Anjo (2018, Indielisboa), by Miguel Nunes. He has two literary works published: Dissecting the Clown, 2014 and Compromise of the Broke Dogs, 2015.
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Lugar 54
Her name is El - a name that sounds like a letter and makes the young androgynous woman a kind of representative of her generation. A generation that is overwhelmed by all the possibilities of the world, globalization and the digital stream. Lisbon is a promise of freedom, independence and an intense life. But the question of meaning brings doubt into everyday life: what if I were happier with someone else or called another place home? When home no longer feels like home, the search becomes routine. When El meets Kay after a break-up, in the midst of her search, their story together begins. Time, space and emotions implode in "Baan", blurring Lisbon with Bangkok, past with present.
Home
Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.
Moço
“A State for one man is no State at all” are the words from Sophocles’ Antigone. Sara has lost her brother to Covid–19. She wants nothing more than to say goodbye to her brother with a traditional burial that respects the Cape Verdean culture and grave site. In a world silenced and halted by the pandemic, the young woman connects with her community and memories.
Antigone, or the Story of Sara Benoliel
At a summer camp in 2007, João meets Ivo. We Were Just Brats is a possible narrative of a queer teenager who finds, in the dormitory and in the hip-hop and pop music of his world, a space that oscillates between self-discovery and punitive surveillance.
Éramos Só Putos
Ricardo is a teenager searching for a way out of a ruthless reality that traps him and everyone around him, preventing them from reaching for the stars.
Flying Carpet
School is over and there's a hustle in the air. In Porto, tourists fill up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now the highlights of the city’s gentrification. Vicente moves around town on his bike and watches the urban changes happening day to day. The town is no longer the same, the world is changing and so is he. Among his family and friends, Vicente lives with anticipation the first days of summer and the beginning of a new life.
Dogs Barking at Birds
Lisbon is the paradise lost where Eva finds herself imprisoned to an unwanted pregnancy.