Known for Acting
Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two separate parts, the story of a young man and a young woman who pretend to be mute in order to get a job as a gardener in a convent inhabited by several women and several men, respectively. Because the young gardeners are mute and, therefore, assumably unable to reveal the secrets of the convent’s residents, all the women living there take action to sleep with the young man just as all the men do to sleep with the young woman.
At the end of the 80’s, Artur, a young homossexual, along with his 4 friends from the LGBTQ+ community, frequents Cliché, a space that hosts parties, events and community meetings. At Cliché, Artur can show his original creations, using the most eccentric androgynous dresses and pieces. Consumed by a revolt derived from a memory, Artur decides to take an action that will change the future of Cliché.
Patricia died mysteriously at a party, suddenly all of her friends are connected within "The_List" where they need to make tasks to accomplish what Patricia dreamt.
Ruben can’t decide. Women or men.
Five young people explore new perspectives and experiences in marginal Lisbon. As they seek to integrate into an established social structure, at night they walk on the ground where all their inner impulses flow.
Edgar is preparing for another show as transformist when faced with her son's arrival, Lawrence. Seeing him in a place that until then he didn't know, Edgar questions about the position to take: family or spectacle. The two worlds seem incompatible, but something changes in their relationship.
A couple has a conversation along different rooms of the house they share.
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.
Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.
