14 year old Andrea spends his summer hol­i­days on the Venice Lagoon. His father and grand­fa­ther have been diving and fish­ing sea urchins since decades and now Andrea is at … read more

Tripoli, North Lebanon. At 64, Maha has just taken her retire­ment from teach­ing. This new life puts her in the face of her lone­li­ness as a divorced woman, whose chil­dren … read more

After lead­ing a stu­dent life in Pon­fer­ra­da, the 24-year-old Edil­ber­to Rodríguez decides to return to the moun­tains and ded­i­cate him­self to herd­ing a herd of goats. With the memory of … read more

This post-apoc­a­lyp­tic, eco-fic­tion short film fol­lows two con­struc­tion work­ers wan­der­ing in a zone where inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or ter­ri­to­ries are inter­twined. In a con­stant search for traces, they are con­front­ed with … read more

In a two-dimen­sion­al dystopi­an land­scape of desert­ed half-built houses in Alba­nia, a new mythol­o­gy is in the making. The film­mak­ers, per­haps a con­tem­po­rary incar­na­tion of Goldilocks from the tale of … read more

An ethno­graph­ic comedy show­ing people at leisure in the set­ting of the ‘som­mer­hus’, a sort of summer res­i­dence pop­u­lar in Den­mark. Among the cast: a teenage girl who treads water … read more

DOR (LONGING) enables us to share moments of encounter between some very ground­ed char­ac­ters, a group of young shep­herds in Roma­nia– and a person in a moment of being in … read more

The pass­port of the Sene­galese Mbaye is full of stamps. His family lives in Por­tu­gal, he lives more in the car than at home. Mbaye ensures the couri­er ser­vice between the con­ti­nents. He reg­u­lar­ly drives from Lisbon to Dakar and back, the two places he calls home. That’s 4,000 kilo­me­ters in an old Peu­geot 504 packed to the rafters with goods and orders from family and acquain­tances in the dis­tant dias­po­ra.  

The camera is his co-driver, watch­ing and lis­ten­ing above all. More than with the steer­ing wheel, the driver is busy with his cell phone. There is con­stant radio con­tact, with the family, and his “cus­tomers” announce more wishes and ques­tions. When all the goods and gifts have reached the clien­tele it goes back with a load of African masks. At the end, they lie spread out on a cloth in a Por­tuguese market, as if they embod­ied the count­less voices in the film: “Yes, I’m fine, all good back here, we’ll stay in touch.” Mbaye has ful­filled his mis­sion in the migrant net­work. 

PEDRO FIGUEIREDO born 1984, is a Por­tuguese film­mak­er, anthro­pol­o­gist and archi­tect. His pro­fes­sion­al and cre­ative work focus­es on bor­ders, forced dis­place­ment and social and spa­tial seg­re­ga­tion. He has direct­ed short films such as CURUPIRA (2016), BULWARK (2016), WITHERING REFUGE (2020) or SIZIGIA (2021).  

RICARDO FALCÃO, born in 1980, is a film­mak­er and anthro­pol­o­gist. Since 2007, he has focused his work on Sene­gal, a coun­try where he has con­duct­ed ethno­graph­ic stud­ies for a long time. Ethnog­ra­phy is at the center of his work. His first expe­ri­ence with film was the ethno­graph­ic doc­u­men­tary WALO WALO in 2009.

Direc­tors, Script: Pedro Neto, Ricar­do Falcão
Cin­e­matog­ra­phy: Pedro Neto
Sound: Ricar­do Falcão
Music: Mattia Bonafi­ni, Filipe Palha
Editor: Fran­cis­co Moreira
Pro­duc­er: Joana Fer­reira, Isabel Machado
Dis­tri­b­u­tion: Sopro Filmes

Toly­at­ti is the Russ­ian Detroit. Toly­at­ti used to be con­sid­ered the center of the Soviet auto­mo­tive indus­try, with full employ­ment for all and modest pros­per­i­ty. But today, the almost-metrop­o­lis lags … read more