Mariana Gaivão Movies

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other.

Years after a sudden departure that left open wounds, Helena returns to the isolated coastal village where she grew up. Nestled between the...

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

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout...

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to...

A homeless teenager is trained by a rather eccentric mother and daughter to become the perfect husband for the girl. It all seems quite innocent...

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

Documentary about life and work of Fernando Lopes-Graça.

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese...

From the music of Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared, Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues crafts a story reminiscent of David Lynch's Blue...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...