Ana Brandão Movies

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the...

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

Esther receives an anonymous diary, written 20 years ago by a young girl in hospital. The girl’s story resonates deeply with Esther, who is...

Rio Vermelho (Red River) is a short film about a pregnant woman which has a strong connection to the river. In spite of being pregnant she swims in...

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

Ana is a child, girl, adult, tall, fat, thin... Ana is the part of all of us that once in a while wakes up without knowing who she is. That...

Letters from Angola is a voyage into a forgotten past where several stories intersect - that of Angolan-born filmmaker Dulce Fernandes and those of...

When almost everyone in their senses (or in their powers to do so so) has left a Western European Capital of millions of people under the threat of a...

Portuguese short film written and directed by Débora Gonçalves.

An illustrator watches and draws sunbathed women who sing as part of their everyday. The film explores the relationship between drawing and cinema in...