Em Chamas
Em Chamas (2026, Portugal) is a short fiction film about a young boy who expresses his inner turmoil through self-harm. The story unfolds through daily life where silence, pain, and resistance blend.
Why This Film
Em Chamas is part of a larger exploration in my work around emotional inheritance and silence within families. It is also connected to my academic research on caregiving and maternal archetypes in cinema, exploring how relationships inside families shape identity across generations. The film serves as both a standalone short and an early step toward developing larger narrative projects.
Film is in festival circle, watching by per-request.
Visual World
The visual approach is quiet, intimate, and observational. We work with restrained camera movement and natural light, allowing moments to unfold without forcing emotional interpretation. Silence and stillness are treated as narrative tools. The film gradually shifts between realism and subtle symbolic imagery reflecting how children experience emotional tension not through logic, but through sensation. The goal is to create a space where the atmosphere itself becomes part of the storytelling.
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