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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Sandro Aguilar

Sandro AGUILAR (1974, Portugal) studied film in Lisbon. In 1998, after his graduation from the Lisbon Film School he founded the production company O Som e a Fúria. Aguilar usually makes short films but made his feature debut with Uprise (2008). His shorts have received awards at festivals such as Venice and Locarno. Mercury (2010) was in competition for the Tiger Short Award at IFFR in 2011. Besides working as a filmmaker, Aquilar is also an editor and producer.

Filmography

O cadáver esquisito (1997, short), Estou perto (1998, short), Sem movimento/Motionless (2000, short), Corpo e meio/In Between (2003, short), Remains (2002, short), A serpente/The Serpent (2005, short), Arquivo/Archive (2007, short), A zona/Uprise (2008), Voodoo (2010, short), Mercúrio/Mercury (2010, short), And They Went (2011, short), Sinais de serenidade por coisas sem sentido/Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things (2012, short), Dive: Approach and Exit (2013, short), Jewels (2013, short), False Twins (2014, short), Bunker (2015, short), Undisclosed Recipients (2015, short), Mariphasa (2017), Armour (2020, mid-length), The Detection of Faint Companions (2021, short), O Teu Peso em Ouro/ Worth your Weight in Gold (2022, short), Exotic Words Drifted (2023, short), Primeira Pessoa do Plural (2023)

Sandro Aguilar at IFFR

  • Primeira pessoa do plural

    Sandro Aguilar | 119' | Portugal | World premiere

    An unsettling exploration of the foundations upon which a relationship is built.

  • Serpente

    Sandro Aguilar | 15' | Portugal | -

  • April Showers

    Ivo M. Ferreira | 90' | Portugal | World premiere

    Ghosts from the time of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution come back to life when the theatre maker Pedro, after making a discovery in his grandmothe

  • Alpha

    Miguel Fonseca | 28' | Portugal | None

    Miguel Fonseca’s first film. Highly stylised, literary in tone, it’s ultimately a disarmingly intriguing and beautifully-shot android romance.

  • Corpo e meio

    Sandro Aguilar | 25' | Portugal | World premiere

    Instinctively he covers the flame in front of him. The fire slowly but surely consumes tears and fever.

  • 31

    Miguel Gomes | 27' | Portugal | -

    Sharp, slightly surrealist, critical sketch of a relationship in the making.

  • Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things

    Sandro Aguilar | 28' | Portugal | None

    No one does darkness better. This is a confoundingly claustrophobic, sensual and mysterious film from the startlingly talented Sandro Aguilar.

  • Na escama do dragão

    Ivo M. Ferreira | 23' | Macau | World premiere

    Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony in China

  • Redemption

    Miguel Gomes | 27' | France | Dutch Premiere

    Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic ‘letters’ from Portugal, Milan, Par

  • Tabu

    Miguel Gomes | 111' | Portugal | -

    Hat tip to the eponymous F.W. Murnau classic in which Portuguese talent Miguel Gomes tells a melancholy story about ageing, lost love, missed opportun