Clara Jost

Directing

Clara Jost

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Clara Jost is a Portuguese director, born in Lisbon.

Known for

Verniz poster
NR

Strangers cross paths on a bus ride at night.

Verniz

2019

Water and Salt poster
5.2

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…

Water and Salt

2001

Bunker poster
5.0

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.

Bunker

2015

Meine Liebe poster
NR

In June 2016, a girl bought a tomato plant. As there were no cherry tomato plants available, she had to buy a regular tomato one. Even though she knew the pot was small, the tomato plant lived his whole existence in it, until October of that same year, in apparent independence and indifference. Against all odds, the tomato plant managed to blossom and bear one fruit, just the one tomato.

Meine Liebe

2020

Half a Light-Year poster
NR

A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other.

Half a Light-Year

2021

Colo poster
6.8

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.

Colo

2017

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Bunker poster
5.0

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.

Bunker

2015

Colo poster
6.8

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.

Colo

2017

Love Love poster
5.0

Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and Marta's best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge's friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will imprison him and, convinced that his love and his lover's desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.

Love Love

2017

Coup de Grâce poster
NR

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as there is so much to do, but he finally concedes. The next day his daughter calls on him, a visit he no longer counted on. They spend the day with one another. The longer they are together, and the later the night gets, the more absurd the situations and moments they experience become.

Coup de Grâce

2017

Behind the camera