Alexander David Movies

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have...

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

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing with her ne’er-do-well son, a solider...

Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia,...

In a small apartment in the city, a mother and her son live their own secret and silent routines, sharing these not even with each other. They would...

Mariana is a young woman looking to fulfill the dream she was once committed with when she left her parents’ house to live with Alex, in...

In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist...

Ana is spending the holidays with her family. The setting is perfect for relaxation and for wondering. Next to the house, workers are building a...

Miracles still happen—or so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Looking again at a myth that haunts...

On a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among...

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near...

Bound by a silent pact, five students make a secret trip to the country for what seems to be an initiation ceremony. In threatening landscapes and...

A story of obsessive love and surreal entropy between two people who surrender to absolute desire.

He came from the city and is trying to fit in the countryside – Alentejo. His life is dedicated to picking raspberries, hunting and taking...

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of...

Laura is on a vacation with her friends for the weekend in a luxurious and isolated house. The group decide to do a hallucinogenic drug and seem to...

Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new...