Mariana Gaivão Movies

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

A man goes on a journey for a slice of apple pie.

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil...

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world...

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to...

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he...

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a...

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the...

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese...

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other.

'Bué Sabi' (pronounced "bweh sabi") portrays the unlikely friendship of three female characters: a troubled girl of Gypsy descent who lives in...

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...