I create documentary films that reflect on territory, belonging, and identity. My work explores everyday lives, memory, and the way cultural groups preserve or transform their traditions. From intimate portraits to broader social landscapes, I seek the gestures and voices that shape who we are.
A forty-year theatrical odyssey led by two women, where migration becomes living memory on stage. Cá e Lá: a bilingual journey of resistance, remembrance, and creation.
Doc - 29 min - 2025
Teresa tells us about her wedding day. Ismenia tells us about her wedding day. Teresa lost her husband less than a year ago. Ismenia lost her husband 30 years ago. Teresa is 85 years old and remembers everything. Ismenia is 90 years old and has trouble remembering. There is a photo of Ismenia's wedding. There are no records of Teresa's. Isménia and Teresa are my grandmothers and I'm getting married.
student project
Doc - 14 min - 2024
“Over There" is a documentary that portrays the daily life of three Portuguese folk groups in France during a year, in a constant conversation about folklore, family, and tradition. A window into the lives, hearts, and minds of people that dedicate their entire lives to a representation of themselves and their own identity.
Doc - 1h30 - 2021
There`s Life in the word Harvest. In the faces, the weight of work, of smiles. Songs echoes, the motors, the sheave crushing the grapes. Douro shapes my grandparents, shapes me. A film of affections, about the family united around the table, losses that still weight on the chest, in the house.
student project
Doc - 25 min - 2015
“In the Rhythm, Our Roots” is a film about movement, gestures and journeys. We move from one place to another and the rhythms of our departure accompany us with each step towards the unknown.
In a migration context, dance can articulate a memory, a rite. Each foot in a new land, to the rhythm of the original one. Music from our first language heard in a new language. Although we are all different, connecting with our roots is something that unites us as human beings, no matter what nationality.
Doc - 8 min - 2020
A documentary without taboos, about the situation of women in the world that gives voice to young women of 14 different nationalities, about women's rights, their perspectives for the future and what is in itself, to be a woman in 2017.
A global perspective of a struggle that is not at all asleep.
Doc - 23 min - 2017