Directing

Mário Patrocínio

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Credits

21 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Maria Vitória poster
10.0

Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.

Maria Vitória

2025

Maria Vitória poster
10.0

Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.

Maria Vitória

2025

Black Sea poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Black Sea

2021

No artwork available
5.0

A day in the life of a grandpa.

Grandpa

2014

On Falling poster
7.0

Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her identity.

On Falling

2025

Lora poster
NR

In the largest city of Brazil, Lora is a free woman, full of life, who revels a different way to think about the situation of homeless people.

Lora

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

As Mulheres do Meu Pai

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Before the Moonrise poster
NR

A wise grandmother, a 9-month pregnant warrior mother, and a little girl live in a dry world. Water is scarce, but they are resilient and have found a way of surviving. The moonrise is approaching, which seems to influence their relations and dreams…

Before the Moonrise

2024

From Love No One Escapes poster
NR

“From Love no one Escapes” is a documentary that portrays the interior of a Brazilian prison where a humanized system of incarceration, known as APAC, allows the absence of prison guards and weapons. After becoming volunteers in the prison and residing for more than a month under the semi-open regime, the documentarists recorded the daily life behind bars, inviting prisoners and employees of APAC to open their hearts and share their stories and perceptions about life. The documentary is mostly composed by informal conversations that portray different aspects of the lives of incarcerated individuals, such as spirituality, family life, work, music and the desire for freedom.

From Love No One Escapes

2021

Boca Cava Terra poster
10.0

A 10 year old girl is taken to a man who never recognized parenthood.

Boca Cava Terra

2022

The Tuner of Silences poster
NR

Mwanito has lived for eight years in a remote place, surrounded by raw nature. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle and a servant. They tell him that the world out there is dead and they are waiting for an apology from God.

The Tuner of Silences

2024

The Tuner of Silences poster
NR

Mwanito has lived for eight years in a remote place, surrounded by raw nature. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle and a servant. They tell him that the world out there is dead and they are waiting for an apology from God.

The Tuner of Silences

2024

Dream Big: Neemias Queta poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dream Big: Neemias Queta

2021

Complexo: Parallel Universe poster
7.3

No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a maior operação policial já realizada no estado, sentiram na pele como é a vida de um simples morador. O filme retrata este perigoso e complexo mundo, um universo paralelo inserido dentro de uma ordem maior, um mundo à parte, que segue uma ordem diferente da ordem global.

Complexo: Parallel Universe

2011

Unicorn Hunting poster
NR

The mother is dying, the relationship hangs by a string, the new job is at risk. Marco's only chance to avoid the tragedy is to find three unicorns before the day's end.

Unicorn Hunting

2024

They Call It... Red Cemetery! poster
NR

Among the crosses of an old cemetery, two outlaws have a dispute over honour, companionship and greed.

They Call It... Red Cemetery!

2022

I Love Kuduro poster
5.0

Kuduro (literally meaning 'hard arse') is an urban cultural movement that was born in Angola during the last decade of the Civil War. Created in discos and raves in downtown Luanda through a mixture between House and Techno beats and traditional Angolan rhythms, Kuduro spilled over from the center to the suburbs. It rapidly spread throughout Angola, through Africa and now all over the world. 'I LOVE KUDURO' follows the most idolized stars of this urban phenomena that today influences scores of young Africans.

I Love Kuduro

2014

I Love Kuduro poster
5.0

Kuduro (literally meaning 'hard arse') is an urban cultural movement that was born in Angola during the last decade of the Civil War. Created in discos and raves in downtown Luanda through a mixture between House and Techno beats and traditional Angolan rhythms, Kuduro spilled over from the center to the suburbs. It rapidly spread throughout Angola, through Africa and now all over the world. 'I LOVE KUDURO' follows the most idolized stars of this urban phenomena that today influences scores of young Africans.

I Love Kuduro

2014

I Love Kuduro poster
5.0

Kuduro (literally meaning 'hard arse') is an urban cultural movement that was born in Angola during the last decade of the Civil War. Created in discos and raves in downtown Luanda through a mixture between House and Techno beats and traditional Angolan rhythms, Kuduro spilled over from the center to the suburbs. It rapidly spread throughout Angola, through Africa and now all over the world. 'I LOVE KUDURO' follows the most idolized stars of this urban phenomena that today influences scores of young Africans.

I Love Kuduro

2014

Monte Clérigo poster
10.0

A teenager does a forced summer job in a forest watchtower, indifferent to the immigrants in the surrounding greenhouses.

Monte Clérigo

2023

Silence poster
NR

In bustling Los Angeles, the lives of 3 young people intersect and unravel how every choice reverberates far beyond its origin.

Silence

2024