Filipa Reis Movies

Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present,...

“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover....

Alberto is a Portuguese environmental engineer who decided to change his life. He travels to a West African metropolis (an imaginary and futuristic...

Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara’s seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to...

While observing others, Paula is also, herself, observed. ' Know the difference between an old maid and a spinster? The old maid does not have a...

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared...

Gonçalo and his friends set off on a mission to his deceased grandfather’s house, in the north of Portugal. There, the memories of the...

Cláudia Ribeiro spent seven months – since the time of plantation till the crops – capturing the work in the fields of the sisters...

Lives being lived, words, gestures, gazes cross our paths, amidst a chaos en framed by a rectangular grid of windows and balconies. Rows of buildings...

About the difficulty of a children to say the word "Otorrinolaringologista".

1975, the year after the Carnation Revolution. Eduarda, João and Mick come from Northern Europe to work in the co-ops in the occupied farms of...

Orphan of the country where he was born, orphan of the Portuguese state. Imprisoned for half his life, never free. Bruno is ‘Ghoya’, a...

A film about the Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution...

Shot in two of the Azores islands, Pico and Faial, between 2015 and 2016. The idea of this film happened by accident. Going back to the footage of a...

Her name is El - a name that sounds like a letter and makes the young androgynous woman a kind of representative of her generation. A generation that...

The portrait of a community as they face their country's economic recession.

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is...