Ana Brandão Movies

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

When almost everyone in their senses (or in their powers to do so so) has left a Western European Capital of millions of people under the threat of a...

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

Rio Vermelho (Red River) is a short film about a pregnant woman which has a strong connection to the river. In spite of being pregnant she swims in...

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

Esther receives an anonymous diary, written 20 years ago by a young girl in hospital. The girl’s story resonates deeply with Esther, who is...

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the...

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the...

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

During the investigation of a case, Teresa Rubens, a judge with a long career, married and mother of children, finds in court, as a defense witness,...

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

Two women in a room. A rainy afternoon. They talk about their desires. Perhaps their wounds. Forms from the past seem to unite and separate them.

An illustrator watches and draws sunbathed women who sing as part of their everyday. The film explores the relationship between drawing and cinema in...

It's Sunday, day of rest. At the river, the father fishes and drinks, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays...

In far away Paraguay, there was a young man ... who in his heart had an empty meadow." This is the theme for a musical film in animation, where the...