Francisca Alarcão Movies

1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.

It's summer in Lisbon and Nicolau is an undecided boy. Among his doubts about the university course to follow and what kind of girl to choose for his...

Under the harsh rays of the sun, Carlos is laying down. There is sunburn on his back. The wind is still. The air is warm. There’s a dryness in...

It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being...

Struggling to settle in her first apartment, Laura returns to the space where she has always been happy, the beach where she spent holidays with her...

In a moment of necessity, Rita turns to a childhood friend and old partner in crime, Eddie, the only person whom she trusts and who will help her...

It’s Autumn. A young woman and an older man travel by train to Douro, looking for a light phenomenon. They wait during the day but it’s...

Mariana is an 11 years old girl coming from Serpa who just moved to Lisbon with her father. The first days are spent in the city cleaning the house...

A taping of a televised game of Bingo from 2013. The presenter reads the numbers inscribed on the balls aloud. As the winner is announced, however,...

After nights of heavy partying, a trans performer goes to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon to get sober again.