Amadou grows up in Guinea Conakry, surrounded by domestic animals and the scent of the mango and lemon trees planted by his father. Colorful birds seem to be everywhere, and his best friend Abdoulaye lives just around the corner. Yet at the age of thirteen, Amadou has to leave all of this behind. His uncle wants to take him along with him to a foreign country where he’ll have a chance at a better education. At a young age, Amadou starts an unimaginable journey with no guarantee of a happy ending.
A stop-motion and 2D animated short film about damage and how we deal with it, visualized through a fragile space that receives a clumsy visitor. It is an exploration by the creator into material, technique, and learning to open up.
While her grandmother Elsa climbs down into a mysterious hole every day, her granddaughter Maditha can only walk over it. As the hole gets bigger and bigger, she has to find out what is down there.
A story about how art changes throughout the generations, where a grandpa and his granddaughter play different instruments and their styles come into clash.
Art is an act of freedom. In this movie, the children express their ideas, their views on the world we live in and reveal their artistic sensibility in a succession of moving pictures.
From the archive images “O Naufrágio do Veronese” emerges an alternative story of the different fates of the people from inside the ship stranded north of Leixões.
In a corner of the island lives a blue francelho in the place where Zarco (the sailor) lived in peace and harmony. Calheta is our home. All together we form a pleasant space to live.
A video wandering “casually” on social media leads to a series of actions that bring very real and irreversible consequences. Not everything we see online is true, but the same cannot be said of its consequences.
A simple mixing bowl becomes the stage for a magical recipe in a whimsical world where ingredients are feelings and memories. As playful hands animate eggs into pom-poms, colours swirl from mugs, and flowers rain hearts, a unique cake begins to take shape. Words of gratitude fall gently into the bowl, and with a final wave of a magic wand, a rainbow signals the cake’s completion. Slices are shared, and crumbs remain — a celebration of creativity, memory, and joy.
Joana enters a world where nothing is as it seems. In a seemingly dead-end game, the infinite universe of internet and online games challenges her to think about freedom and the risks present in this digital world of technology and information.