Mariana Gaivão

Maria do Mar

João Rosas

André G. Pinto, Luís Araújo

It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Simão and his friends, all of them in their late twenties. Everyone is drawn to the beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but Nicolau will see his life the most deeply shaken by her. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of the tortellini's shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults.

First Light

Mariana Gaivão

The south wind stirred the dawn. I got up before them to film them.

Ruby

Mariana Gaivão

Ruby Taylor, Millie Romer

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby moves between the borders of both, without belonging to either.

Solo

Mariana Gaivão

Isabel Abreu

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

Três Realizadoras Portuguesas

Mariana Gaivão, Leonor Teles

Rita Martins, Melissa Matos