Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new constellation of desires, fears, and struggles. Entre a Luz e o Nada by Joana de Sousa, Sob Influência by Ricardo Branco, and Uma Rapariga Imaterial by André Godinho are three cinematic gestures that explore techniques and narratives from science fiction to horror, seeking new ways to view and imagine other possibilities. After traveling through various festivals, these films can now be experienced together, in a mutual exploration of mysterious worlds, unsettling dreams, and singular visions.
Gru and Lucy and their girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the family to go on the run.
A fantasy and sci-fi journey through the cusp of adulthood, where Tino, Greta, and Minerva traverse the real and astral planes. A tale of fleeting brilliance, it captures the radiant magic of a moment where choices echo through eternity.
Manu is on a desperate quest to find his missing sister, Abril. As he pieces together the clues she left behind, he discovers how little he truly knew about her. Recalling a childhood prophecy Abril once mentioned, Manu realizes he has a final chance to save her. With time running out and the mysterious lights in the night sky threatening to take her away, Manu must race against the clock to bring her back.
Potluck follows the story of a well-adjusted company upstart who faces a series of darkly comedic and sickly horrifying workplace scenarios. He must learn to face the consequences of being just another cog in the corporate machine.
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.
Black drops fall from the water faucets, peek through the drains, and flood the city. Sisters Paula and Teresa, cornered in their apartment, can do nothing but observe as that strange substance takes hold of their lives. Hypnotized, with nowhere to go, they come into contact with the liquid. Gradually, reality begins to distort and they get lost in it.
In a world where genetic testing tells the age in which a person will die, two women face their mortality and regrets together, trying to make up for lost time before their time runs out. This is a story of strength, female empowerment, and friendship that tackles a sensitive subject along the way.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two strangers, possibly the last humans alive, meet believing they are father and daughter. When they realise their mistake, will they still say what they journeyed so far to say?
Jacob Kaiser and his wife Laura finally have the chance to escape the city for a while to Jacob's recently inherited lake cabin. But as strange things start happening at the cabin, "escape" would soon have an insidiously different meaning.
The year is 2074. Access to all art has been prohibited for 40 years. A man aims to share a song with his partner. With the risk of certain death, she must choose whether she will face the music or remain lost in a mundane society.
200 years after a nuclear war destroyed the modern world, the island of Revent is ruled by a totalitarian government. The film follows a man who tries to escape the island in search of freedom, and what he discovers along the way.
After a civil uprising results in a polarized society obsessed with the purity of blood, a man in power decides to use his assistant to save his life without knowing the devastating consequences of his entitlement.
When a defiant young woman finds herself lost in a remote wilderness, a solitary survivalist offers her shelter. Feeling trapped, she fights her way out of a dystopian world in search for truth of how she got there in the first place.