Movies: Carla Madeira

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime....

Four pre-teenagers investigate the kidnapping of a schoolmate until they reach a witch, Romanova, who takes another friend before disappearing. Fifteen years later, Romanova reappears and one of the survivors must rally the rest to put an end to her....

A rift with the Catholic Church forces a nun to return to an idea of family where the chasm between dogma and faith will lead to an irreversible decision....

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia....

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children...

O que eu vi quando me mostraram a ecografia não acreditei. Dentro do meu útero havia milhares de minúsculos seres, com forma de aranha mas de corpo tenro e flexível. What I saw when the ultrasound was shown to me, I couldn't believe. Inside my uteru...

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Manuel, an elderly deaf and mute man who had suffered a stroke, has just arrived at a nursing home and establishes a tender relationship with a nurse, rejuvenating his troubled relationship with his father....

A family is evicted from the home they have lived in for almost 20 years. Teenage Sara experiences the change as her parents fight during the moving process....

Two revolutionaries arrange a clandestine meeting to convince a factory worker to join them on a strike....

Matilde travels to her family’s village due to her great-grandmother’s passing. After the funeral, she reconnects with the place where she spent her childhood, learning about the experiences that she and her mother have shared in the same house....

An unusual celebration combines Dinis' birthday party with his grandmother's funeral. The birthday boy is, in this embarrassing context, bombarded with inopportune questions by his family while he processes the loss of his grandmother....

A poetic exploration of three generations of women, sometimes close, sometimes distant, but always connected....

Marta is passionate about her new hobby: bird-watching. Before her big audition to become a professional dancer, she tries to gather courage to tell her mother that she doesn't want to dance anymore....

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