Gonçalo Waddington – MRQE

Banzo

Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation infected with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?

Grand Tour

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

“Glória”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.

São Jorge

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called “year of the Troika” (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 3, O Encantado

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad ! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Assim assim

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

Sans laisser de traces

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man lives isolated in his grandmother’s country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope.

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn’t know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

April Showers

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family – the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.