Daniel Viana

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet faces starvation, mutiny, and the psychological toll of endless seas. Upon reaching the shores of Cebu, Magellan is pulled into a fatal conflict with the natives by his drive to spread Catholicism, culminating in his tragic doom.

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

When an actor assists to the premiere of the experimental B-movie he stars in, film blends with real life, turning it into an actual thriller.

One of the jesters of a theatre company has to leave after the upcoming performance. The performance itself will determine which one that is going to be.

A couple ploughs a seemingly barren land. One day, they find in the ground a dark seed that will grow and become a strange influence in their behavior.

Judite is a woman of faith, dedicated to her work as a sacristan and to caring for her bedridden husband. When his health worsens, she feels abandoned by both her children and her priest.

Peri works as a debt collector for a loan shark in downtown Rio de Janeiro. One day, after making a serious mistake at work, he is sent out of Brazil. It is during his journey to his new country, Portugal, that he meets Abgail, a woman who helps him calm down. In Lisbon, Peri starts working for “The Tailcoat Collector”, a curious debt collection company whose job is to follow debtors dressed in tailcoats, intimidating them into paying their debts. Peri is always very successful until the moment he is called to collect from Abgail, the woman he met on the plane and with whom he will fall madly in love.

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

A father is hypnotized on his deathbed, following his own method, and is left hanging between life, death, and dreams.

Lisbon, 2027. Marta and Miguel are both researchers that are part of a scientific group and a couple in their private lives. Their relationship will be put to the test on one decisive night when the parameters that Marta is analyzing point to the very high probability of a major earthquake hitting Lisbon. The group splits, debating whether or not to warn the population of the possible impending tragedy.

A lost pilgrim finds a strange house on the edge of the abyss and its mysterious occupant.

Cellist Helena is married to Mário, who criticizes her as an artist and a woman, leaving her insecure to the point of leaving the stage and becoming isolated and dependent on her husband.

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.

An alchemist is invited to the royal court of Ulzamar and tasked to cure the unacceptable condition of the Queen.

Documentary short about the April’s Captains and the Carnation Revolution from the point of view of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement)- a coalition of Military officers – namely Captains and Majors – who banded together to overthrow the Authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal for over 40 years.

A rift with the Catholic Church forces a nun to return to an idea of family where the chasm between dogma and faith will lead to an irreversible decision.

In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.

The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.

In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to raise. She embarks on a string of bank heists using a blonde wig and a toy gun and, in the process, becomes a folk hero.

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.