Movies: Pedro Bessa

Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this family....

What if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?...

Anna and Helena, both mothers, struggle with two forced separations. Anna, a Ukrainian refugee, tries to survive in Lisbon with her daughter Kamilla. Helena, Portuguese, survives the death of her son. The two women become friends the day they meet at...

A story about generation Y, the era of individualistic and extremely competitive people, who believe their meant to be exceptional. A generation where the unrealistic expectations rarely match reality. The story revolves around a young adult who is s...

In the mid-90s, while the shadow of the millennium bug and the consequent end of times can already be seen, a deeply religious family believes that the biblical prophecy that foresees the return of Jesus to Earth will be fulfilled in the womb of thei...

The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - ...

Isaías never heard about quantum mechanics or parallel universes. One night his reality perception will be irredeemably changed....

A group of veterans from the Portuguese Colonial War reunites today. Among songs and memories, the past takes over them....

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The movie follows a young adult that lives in an abandoned world. His dreams and memories are his escape from the reality. After some strange events, he begins a journey looking for answers....

In his first solo show, João Nuno Gonçalo, who writes to you here in the third person, invites an orchestra of 73 musicians to address a range of topics such as his fundamental role in combating the pandemic, his opinions on the virus and vaccines, a...

At Christmas dinner, Judas recounts to his strange group of friends the misadventures of his encounter with an old rival....

João arrives in a city unknown to him to replace his father in the visits to his hospitalized mother. He discovers that he will have to sleep in the car at the same time he finds out that his parents are counting on him in the adult life that is also...