I make documentary films about how things are passed on. A grape harvest in the Douro, my grandmother describing her wedding, a folk group rehearsing near Paris, a bilingual theatre company forty years on stage. What draws me is what people keep doing when nobody is asking them to, and what quietly changes in the keeping.

Filming alone has been at the heart of my practice since my first short film, in 2015. A small camera lets me blend into a room and become almost invisible. I hold it at the height of the hands rather than the faces, at the height of what is working. Staying for months rather than hours is what opens the moments an interview never reaches.


Feature Documentaries
Short Documentaries
Collaborative & Institutional Films

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Cá e Lá - 40 Ans sur Scène / 40 Years on Stage


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.


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 Doc - 29 min - 2025

No Meu Tempo, O Casamento -  In My (Wedding) Day


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.


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final project, KINO-DOC documentary film training, Lisbon

 Doc - 14 min - 2024

Lá em Baixo - Over There


“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.


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PhD research film

 Doc – 2h15 – 2021
short version 1h30 – 2025

Uma Vindima - A Harvest V V


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.


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first film · MA final project, ESTC Lisbon


Doc - 25 min - 2015

Dans le Rythme, Mes Racines - In the Rythm, Our Roots


“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.


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Doc - 8 min - 2020

Women in the World - We Speak Out

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.


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Doc - 23 min - 2017


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