In the last two decades, the Portuguese short film production panorama has achieved extraordinary visibility, thanks to the proliferation of film festivals and alternative exhibition circuits. It has strengthened itself, changing the paradigm towards a new creative and professional perspective.
Never before have so many short films achieved such outstanding quality and diversity.
Agência is at the center of this new paradigm. The large number of awards, selections, and the considerable recognition that some Portuguese auteurs have received at international level are the result of this work.
Agência is a proactive agent in the presence of Portuguese short films on the international scene, and through its film archive, it shows the complexity and diversity of aesthetic approaches of a new generation of Portuguese directors. This catalog brings together the most recent films in circulation and those that will be released in the coming months.
CLERMONT ISFF
BAD FOR A MOMENT
Daniel Soares FIC, Portugal, 15’
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION I 6
PERCEBES
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves ANI/DOC, Portugal, France, 12’
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION I 10
ROTTERDAM
IFFR
AMARELO BANANA
Alexandre Sousa ANI, Portugal, Hungary, 13’
SHORT & MID-LENGTH
LA DURMIENTE
Maria Inês Gonçalves
FIC/DOC, Portugal, Spain, 20’
TIGER SHORT COMPETITION
VULTOSOS CUMES
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN’S SHADOW
Diogo Salgado
FIC, Portugal, France, Belgium, 19’
SHORT & MID-LENGTH
2025
BRIGHT SUMMER DAYS
Nevena Desivojevic
FIC, Serbia, North Macedonia, Republic of Srpska, Portugal, 14’
Two sisters re-encounter between departures, absences and returns that seem impossible to have a place.
AMARELO BANANA
Alexandre Sousa
ANI, Portugal, Hungary, 13’
After another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers the elaborate illusion they have created.
CÃO
SOZINHO
Marta Reis Andrade
ANI, Portugal, France, 13’
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
DOG ALONE
LA DURMIENTE
Maria Inês Gonçalves FIC/DOC, Portugal, Spain, 20’
“La Durmiente” explores the medieval Infanta Beatriz of Portugal’s story through fabulation. Shot at the Monastery Sancti Spiritus, where she rests, children reenact her life during the 1383 Portuguese dynastic crisis.
LES HABITANTS
Maureen Fazendeiro FIC/DOC, Portugal, France, 42’
A small town in the suburbs of Paris, with housing developments inspired by the American model, rose and vegetable greenhouses, and inhabitants. It’s winter, and a camp of Roma people has settled in town.
Inês Oliveira FIC, Portugal, 29’
Lisbon. A group of teenagers stroll in the city center, which also seems to be in the process of mutation. Neko most of all.
OFÉLIA
Carlos Lobo FIC, Portugal, 21’
Ofélia portrays the growing pains of two teenagers set on a collision course within a morally conservative society.
PORQUE HOJE É SÁBADO
BECAUSE TODAY IS SATURDAY
Alice Eça Guimarães
ANI, Portugal, France, Spain, 12’
It’s Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape to unleash her creative side.
RUI CARLOS
Margarida Paias FIC, Portugal, 15’
Summer, 80s. Rui Carlos and his friends spend their afternoons playing football. When the ball gets punctured, he is left alone to deal with the responsibility and challenges of adult life.
SOL MENOR
André Silva Santos FIC, Portugal, 27’
End of Spring. A sonata, a train, a letter. Samuel devotes his days to his work as a flute teacher and to the rituals of mourning the premature death of his wife. A visit from his brother and unexpected news from his mother bring Samuel to an impasse.
STOP – SALAS DE ENSAIO PARA UM MATERIALISMO HISTÓRICO
STOP – REHEARSAL ROOMS FOR A HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
Jorge Quintela DOC, Portugal, 23’
The short documentary film Stop. Rehearsal rooms for a historical materialism explores the history of the Shopping Centre Stop in the district of Bonfim, Porto, framing it within the materialist critique proposed by Walter Benjamin in his Arcade Project.
Three of Cups is an experimental documentary capturing a night of love, identity, and transformation between three friends in Berlin, offering a poetic glimpse into the fleeting yet profound moments when change reveals who we are becoming.
VULTOSOS CUMES
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN’S SHADOW
Diogo Salgado FIC, Portugal, France, Belgium, 19’
Pedro travels for the first time in one of the vans leading a group of workers to France. While, for the others, this is another work trip, each kilometer brings Pedro closer to a place that seduces him: the colossal mountains of the Alps.
2024
BAD FOR A MOMENT
Daniel Soares
FIC, Portugal, 15’
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.
AMANHÃ NÃO DÃO CHUVA
Maria Trigo Teixeira
ANI, Portugal, Germany, 11’
Feeling that her mother may no longer be able to live on her own, a woman moves back to her childhood home. As she tries to adapt to the new situation, her mother continues to drift away.
OS CAÇADORES
THE HUNTERS
David Pinheiro Vicente
FIC, Portugal, France, 29’
1970 something. As the end of an era of repression approaches, the teenage cousins of a bourgeois family spend their vacation in a country house. It will only take the introduction of an outside element for violence to erupt.
DEUS-E-MEIO
GOD-AND-A-HALF
ENXOFRE
Margarida Assis DOC, Portugal, 25’
A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that together they can piece together a memory of their shared past.
LIGHT WAS A BREAK
Luís Costa FIC, Portugal, 18’
One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.
Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes FIC/EXP, Portugal, Brazil, 14’
Child solidarity is stronger than death.
O JARDIM EM MOVIMENTO
THE MOVING GARDEN
Inês Lima FIC/EXP, Portugal, 19’
Accompanied by two botanical guides, a group of hikers embarks on a journey through the enchanting landscapes of Arrábida Natural Park.
PERCEBES THAT’S HOW I LOVE YOU
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves ANI/DOC, Portugal, France, 12’
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.
TRÊS VÍRGULA CATORZE
THREE COMMA FOURTEEN
Joana Nogueira, Patrícia Rodrigues ANI, Portugal, 12’
An inner journey on the condition of children diagnosed with ADHD that struggle with their own vision of the world and what is expected from them. An allegory about the mind and behavior of these children.
Mário Macedo FIC, Portugal, Croatia, 18’
While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.
WATCHLIST
2025
☐ Amarelo Banana
☐ Bright Summer Days
☐ Cão Sozinho (Dog Alone)
☐ La Durmiente
☐ Les Habitants
☐ Neko
☐ Ofélia
☐ Porque hoje é Sábado (Because Today is Saturday)
☐ Rui Carlos
☐ Sol Menor
☐ Stop – Salas de ensaio para um materialismo histórico (Stop – Rehearsal rooms for a historical materialism)
☐ Three of Cups
☐ Vultosos Cumes (Under the Mountain’s Shadow)
2024
☐ Amanhã não dão chuva (It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow)
☐ Bad for a Moment
☐ Os Caçadores (The Hunters)
☐ Deus-e-Meio (God-And-A-Half)
☐ Enxofre (Sulfur)
☐ Grito (Light Was a Break)
☐ O Jardim em Movimento (The Moving Garden)
☐ Percebes
☐ That’s How I Love You
☐ Três Vírgula Catorze (Three Comma Fourteen)
Portuguese Short Film Agency
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Praça José Régio, 110 4480-718 Vila do Conde Portugal
