Francisco Monteiro

Growing up is the hardest challenge you'll ever face.

A young woman meets a famous actor. The two of them fall in love.

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant steps into the shoes of a stage play director for the first time. A glimpse into his creation process and his adaptation to the theatrical language, as he puts together a musical show about Andy Warhol, in Lisbon.

In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.

A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

From an early age, while still at school, he realized that what he lacked in courage he made up for in intelligence. When faced with physical confrontation, his stomach churns and his breathing becomes noisy, without him being able to prevent it. So he always put up with everything, or almost everything, from his classmates, later at university, and now at work. Until one day everything changes, a colleague gives him the courage he didn't know he had, leading him to the poetic exaggeration of someone who had endured everything until then.

Day to day life of some kids studying at an artistic school with an innovative method.

Jo and Andrew, two carefree young men, spend time together smoking weed and wandering around the city. When they decide to steal a packet of cookies from a minimarket. What starts as a simple robbery turns into a mind-blowing chase through the streets of the city, leading Jo to a state of almost delirium.