
Directing
Marco Santos
Born
1979-12-27 (46)
Place of birth
Porto, Portugal
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Marco Santos is a Portuguese filmmaker from Porto whose work moves between fiction, documentary and formal experimentation. His films explore the relationships between territory, body, memory and identity, approaching cinema as a space for observation and inquiry. Working within auteur and experimental cinema, Santos is interested in historical erasure, emotional residue and the unstable relationship between truth and representation. Through fragmented narratives, visual experimentation and archival gestures, his work examines how personal and collective memories are constructed, transformed and sometimes erased.
Known for
NRHaunted by the world’s relentless cries, a young woman seeks solace where the sea swallows every sound.
The Shell
2025
NRAn ironic portrait of fascism that uses archival footage of a pig slaughter to reduce the "Great Leader" to his ultimate truth: dead weight.
Kind Procedures
2026
NRAn autopsy of a stagnant century. Archival debris and flickering propaganda assemble into a rhythmic collage where the Cold War persists as atmosphere. At the edge of permanent war, the individual dissolves into symbols without meaning, gestures without end. When the world begins to burn, what is left to preserve?
Soap in your hands
2026
10.0A man emerges from the sea with no memory and discovers his own missing-person posters. He tries to reconnect with the life he left behind.
BODY NEVER FOUND
2026
Behind the camera
NRHaunted by the world’s relentless cries, a young woman seeks solace where the sea swallows every sound.
The Shell
2025
NRAn ironic portrait of fascism that uses archival footage of a pig slaughter to reduce the "Great Leader" to his ultimate truth: dead weight.
Kind Procedures
2026
NRAn autopsy of a stagnant century. Archival debris and flickering propaganda assemble into a rhythmic collage where the Cold War persists as atmosphere. At the edge of permanent war, the individual dissolves into symbols without meaning, gestures without end. When the world begins to burn, what is left to preserve?
Soap in your hands
2026
10.0A man emerges from the sea with no memory and discovers his own missing-person posters. He tries to reconnect with the life he left behind.
BODY NEVER FOUND
2026
10.0A man emerges from the sea with no memory and discovers his own missing-person posters. He tries to reconnect with the life he left behind.
BODY NEVER FOUND
2026
