NABIA (2025)
short, 17'
SYNOPSIS: Based on the legend of NABIA, goddess of the rivers and water in Galician-Portuguese mythology, an allegorical narrative is drawn without words, celebrating the insertion of human cycles into natural cycles, as far as harmony is possible.
* script / director: Sabrina D. Marques
* with: Gustavo Sumpta, Diana Sá, Rafaela Sá, Marta Mariz
* editor: Patrícia Saramago
* director of photography: Ana Mariz
* producer: Real-Ficção (Rui Simões + Jacinta Barros)
* designer: Ana Sofia Ferreira
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PAINTERS OF THE SUN PRAYER (2024)
tiny video-essay / short, 1'
SYNOPSIS: 1 minute video-essay about the history of artists painting the SUN
* directed by: Sabrina D. Marques + Vasco Nuno Medeiros
* designer: Lizzy
* distribution: GERMINAL
HANDS OF THE FUTURE (2021)
video-essay / short, 13'
SYNOPSIS: Maybe it’s a science. Maybe it’s a fantasy. Chiromancy or Palmistry is the art of reading the past, present or future in someone’s hand-lines. Each hand is a landscape of intersections, dots, bumps, curves, ramifications and textures. Each hand is like a screen yet to be filled by a movie.
* directed by: Dan Shoval + Mehdi Jahan + Sabrina D. Marques
* voice over: Adrian Martin
* designer: Carolina Cipriano
* distribution: GERMINAL
* PRESSKIT
* screenings:
2022 - Mubi
2022 - filmMadrid (Spain)
2023 - Marienbad (Czech Rep.)
OS FOTOCINES (2021)
documentary feature, 72'
SYNOPSIS: Who were those soldiers, in the Portuguese Colonial War,
who had to photograph, film and save their lives?
* script / research / director: Sabrina D. Marques
* research: Marisa Marinho + Vasco Vasconcelos
* with: Júlio Isidro, Lauro António, António Sala, Fernando Matos Silva, Miguel Nunes
* editor: Cláudia Rita Oliveira
* editing assistant: Marta Melo
* director of photography: João Serralha
* camera: Gonçalo Pola / Miguel Cartaxena / Gonçalo Soares / Ricardo Gonçalves
* producer: Real-Ficção (Rui Simões + Jacinta Barros)
* co-producer: Marte (Sol de Carvalho)
* designer: Ana Sofia Ferreira
* premiere: 2.7.2021 (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
* trailer: https://vimeo.com/537646437
* site: http://www.facebook.com/osofotocines
* presskit
* screenings:
2021 * RTP2 (25.4.2021)
2021 * CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA
2021 * CAMINHOS DO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS
2021 * CINEMA FERNANDO LOPES - UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA
2022 * SPORT OPERÁRIO MARINHENSE
2022 * TEATRO MIGUEL FRANCO (LEIRIA)
2022 * MELGAÇO - INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2022 * IMAGENS DO TEJO
2022 * SÃO PAULO
2023 * Canais TV CINE
SELF (2019)
found footage video-essay, 11’
SYNOPSIS: It is common to hear that we live in the Society of the Self. But what does that mean exactly?
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* production: SPP / FCSH-UNL / Germinal
* poster art: Ana Sequeira
* distribution: Germinal
* screenings:
2019. Gulbenkian (6.12.2019)
THE CIRCLES (2016)
video-loops / choreography for camera, 7'
SYNOPSIS: A man and a woman grow close and apart.
* cast: Eunice Correia, Homero Castelbranco
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* producer: Vasco Sequeira / Longshot
* grading: João Gambino
* soundtrack: Daniel Costa
* distribution: GERMINAL
short / experimental video-essay / animation 4'
SYNOPSIS: Cinema is a project of seeing less and seeing more.
* voice-over: Filipa Carloto Matta
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* producer: Germinal + Alchimia
* distribution: GERMINAL
* screenings:
2016 * Cossoul, Lisboa - 30/9/2016
FRÁGIL (2010)
experimental documentary short-film, 13'
SYNOPSIS: The blowing strength belongs to the men and the selection is for the women's accuracy.
A portrait of the modelling and fabrication of glass in Marinha Grande.
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* camera: Sabrina D. Marques
* editor: Sabrina D. Marques + Tatiana Nené
* soundtrack: Francisco Alice Peres
* details: HD Video 16:9
* producer: Sabrina D. Marques
* poster art: Ana Sequeira
* context: Project developed in Lisbon in the class of Documentary
(FCSH-UNL - Professor José Manuel Costa)
* distribution: GERMINAL
BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS THEY WEAR MASKS (2010)
documentary short-film, 8'
SYNOPSIS: A poetic look on the vital energy that brings until today the pagan
traditions of winter rituals with masks in the north of Portugal.
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* camera: Sabrina D. Marques
* editor: Sabrina D. Marques
* producer: Sabrina D. Marques
* musical score: Chocalheiros de Ousilhão
* details: HD video 16:9
*poster: Fernando Cabral
* context: Project developed in Lisbon in the class of Portuguese Anthropology
(FCSH-UNL, Professor: Paula Godinho)
* distribution: GERMINAL
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MIDNIGHT (2009)
experimental short-film, 5'
SYNOPSIS: A girl takes the long way home from work,
under the night and into her thoughts.
* with: Cláudia R. Sampaio
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* camera: Sabrina D. Marques
* poster: Ana Sequeira
* editor: Sabrina D. Marques + Gonçalo Castelo Soares
* production team: Renato Duarte, Haryson Alves de Souza
* context: Project developed in Lisbon for the class of Television Film Directing
(FCSH-UNL- Professor Manuel Tomaz)
* details: HD Video 16:9
* distribution: GERMINAL
SYNOPSIS: In Candyland everything should be better, but...
* with: Joana Metrass, Diogo Branco
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* camera: Miguel Godinho
* editor: Gonçalo Castelo Soares
* producer: Sabrina D. Marques
* details: HD video 16:9
* poster: Ana Sequeira
* context: Project developed in Lisbon in the class of Film Directing
(ESTC - Professor Ana Luísa Guimarães)
* distribution: GERMINAL
ROSA (2006)
experimental short-film, 8'
SYNOPSIS: A man writes letters to a woman invented by him.
* with: Ágata Pinho, Luís Marques Cruz
* director: Sabrina D. Marques
* camera: Miguel Godinho
* editor: Gonçalo Castelo Soares
* production assistant: Joana de Sousa
* production director: Mariana Meira e Cruz
* producer: Sabrina D. Marques
* details: Video 4:3
* designer: Ana Sequeira
* context: Project developed in Lisbon in the class of Scriptwriting
(ESTC- Professor Luís Falcão)
* distribution: GERMINAL