Mariana Gaivão Movies

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other.

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Matias is a Portuguese teenager growing up in Lisbon, with no connection to the German nationality of his father. In the summer of his 16th birthday,...

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the...

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese...

The south wind stirred the dawn. I got up before them to film them.

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

An homage to Pina Bausch.