FILMS

Dreaming of Lions is a surreal & dark romantic comedy about euthanasia, currently in pre-production, winner of a production grant from ICA (Portuguese Film Institute) and selected for the Torino Film Lab (Comedy Lab) and the Mediterranean Film Institute’s Script 2 Film advanced development workshop.

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Caetano hasn’t slept in years. More precisely, 5 years. Ever since his wife died in Portugal’s most famous death-by-selfie. He’s terminally depressed and alone, working in his father’s funeral agency, where his only company are the dead people he looks after, with whom he has frequent conversations. During his long sleepless nights, his thoughts turn to suicide, but he’s too afraid of physical pain to go through with it. Until one day, Fausto, a dead university professor with a sarcastic wit, takes pity on Caetano and tells him about an obscure euthanasia self-help group run by an eccentric academic. Will this be the solution Caetano has been looking for?

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A documentary following a daughter’s personal journey through her mother’s past as a Portuguese-Angolan guerilla fighter, offering us a uniquely emotional and political insight into the Angolan Civil War, Africa’s most brutal and longest-lasting conflict.

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Lidiana, a psychoanalyst from São Paulo, moves to Guiné, a village in the countryside of Bahia, to live with her boyfriend, a crossing guide in the area. However, the relationship with the village locals is distant and lonely, which makes her question the lifestyle change. That is, until a local calls upon her to help his brother, desperate with his mother’s death. From Guiné tells Lidiana’s journey towards finding herself again in such a different setting from the one she left behind. In this almost magic rural setting, Lidiana will have the opportunity to redefine her relationship with life, and others.

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Two solitary men embark on a journey to find a missing woman, driven by friendship, a desire for freedom, and a wish to taste life to the fullest.

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A dark tragicomic satire about our unaffordable cities and our ageing population.

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