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Fora de Jogo (2021)
Character: Esmeralda
After being discouraged by his aunt, Leo contradicts her expectations and tries to fight for a place in the local football team trials.
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Por um fio (2007)
Character: Helena
A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path.
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Maria (2014)
Character: Mother
Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of traditions and taboos she tries to deal with her love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice.
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O dia em que as cartas pararam (2017)
Character: Julia
In the 1960s, António, an agent of the PIDE, is assigned to follow Aurora to Paris, a young woman suspected of oppositionism. It is May 1968, and during the student revolt, the two young people fall in love. Back in Porto, their forbidden passion ends abruptly. For decades, António writes Aurora letters that she keeps unopened. When the correspondence is unexpectedly interrupted, both give up on life. Based on the director's novel entitled "A Casa Azul" (The Blue House).
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Surdina (2020)
Character: Lucinda
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
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Litoral (2023)
Character: N/A
One winter night, the sea once again threatens the flat tower where Teresa lives. The next day, her daughter comes to pressure her to leave everything behind.
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Inquietude (1998)
Character: Maid
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
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Sefarad (2019)
Character: Villager
In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.
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A Emancipação de Mimi (2025)
Character: Irmã Maria
Miguel is 9 years old and obsessed with singer Mariah Carey. He goes to a Catholic school and one day his class is challenged by the nuns to sell calendars of the Virgin Mary. When he finds out that he won't be able to keep the profits from the calendar sales like he thought, he decides to take action. Like some kind of miracle, his favorite singer is going to perform in his hometown.
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