Movies by Fernando Sá Machado

longseason
In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

Basin of Souls
Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists attracted by the cheap, disposable amenities that are popping up everywhere at once. Gentrification has decontextualized Portuguese culture, rendering the landscape uncanny. The Basin Woman, a symbol of the female workers of the historic Bolhão Market, is chased down by seagulls in the midst of this transcendent chaos.

vvvamor
A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.

AA-PROXIMA-SUN
A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

OX-EYE-FIELDS
A man unravels the consequences of reaching the unreachable horizon, starting from the abyss.

ly débora
The twin brothers who invented the "dab" tell their story.

Oxymoron Life...
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.