Laços de Natal

The Reflection

August 2018 •English

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror

Impulse

July 2010 •English

Deadly events unfold around a man racing to his final and most significant act.

Fender

Invalid date •English

On the final night of summer, Annie is confronted by a relentless stalker—the embodiment of her deepest childhood fears. When her friends dismiss her concerns, Annie must contend with her anxieties and the unsettling truth.

Jack's Lantern

October 2024 •English

A lonely boy, who believes his jack-o-lanterns come to life, is drawn to carve a pumpkin on Halloween night. While his mother tries to shield him from the scary truth. This suspenseful Halloween drama, is a proof of concept for a feature screenplay.

HABITAT

November 2021 •English

In a dead-end room lives a slave of the system, addicted to the computer mouse and a reality show that never ends. Obsessed with an illusion, his dream is to go to the paradise that he has seen in a TV commercial...with just a flick of a finger.

PUTREFACTO

October 2021 •Spanish

The Glitch

July 2022 •Spanish

After discovering his mother crying, a boy is stalked by unknown presences.

Alice Rose

September 2006 •English

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.

Crimes of Diogo Alves

May 1909 •Portuguese

Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.

Zapata's Gang

February 1914 •German

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

Thousand Year Sleep

June 2007 •English

Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.

Myth

August 2022 •English

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.

Real Artists

March 2017 •English

In the near future, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job, but, when she discovers the truth of the modern 'creative' process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film.

Smile

September 2021 •Spanish

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their desires.

This Was a Mistake

August 2022 •English

A crime gone wrong only gets worse as the criminals are forced to take two unwitting hostages caught in the back of their car.

Child's Play

May 1980 •English

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.

Andronicus

December 2021 •English

A family therapy session takes a disturbing turn.

The Art of Gesture

November 2015 •French

In a disused chapel, a man is tortured in strange circumstances

Line

October 2016 •Korean

The man is making a living by circulating advertisements. While turning the ad flyers, they find a house with a slightly open door. The man goes home thinking about stealing dinner money. There is a quiet, tightly closed door inside the house. The man who was about to come out with nothing wants to open the closed door. There are the bodies of an old man and a girl who committed suicide when forced to open a tightly closed door. Then someone rings the doorbell.

Nervous Breakdown In A Floral Dress

November 2023 •English

After moving in with a single dad and his toddler, a woman questions her relationship, and who she was before it.