Valdemar Santos Movies

A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and...

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on...

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of...

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the...

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an...

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860,...

Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.

Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to...

Based on the tale of the Prodigal Son, 'Prodigal' is a film about the relationship about father and son, and a simple gesture of love. Shot on 16mm...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.

Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side of the line.

Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses....

Madalena is a seven-year-old girl who has to draw the nativity scene. When she lists the characters in the biblical scene, she is confronted with a...

A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to...

A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.

In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal...

In 1940s Portugal, poor and illiterate, five boys work the Tejo mudflats to exhaustion, making tiles from clay. One refuses to stay trapped in...