Deep Focus Short

A couple spends a week taking care of someone else's house. Parties and confrontations will test the new relationship.

A power cut leads to an intimate conversation between two strangers. A celebration of chance, a meditation on belonging.

In the empty city of Luanda, Angola, there are only ghosts and memories. A man has to take the painful decision to leave his city for good.

Photographs of various parties trigger memories and anecdotes, culminating in an ode to the role of music in our lives.

A taxidermied sable antelope is the protagonist in a story about conserving memory and linking Angola's colonial history to its contemporary influence of China.

A teacher struggles with the attitude of his students. Slowly, the dynamic in the class moves in unsuspected directions.

Drawing parallels between the different generations of his family, a narrator reflects on his childhood in Fortaleza.

A man finds refuge in a deserted building in Luanda. Confronted by his obnoxious shadow, he makes a radical decision.

Vando's friends gather to share stories, sing and re-enact cartoons. Celebrating their existence is their only way to cope.