A man emerges from the sea with no memory and discovers his own missing-person posters. He tries to reconnect with the life he left behind.
Haunted by the world's relentless cries, a young woman seeks solace where the sea swallows every sound.
Archival debris and flickering propaganda assemble into a rhythmic collage in which the Cold War persists as atmosphere. At the edge of permanent war, the individual dissolves into empty symbols, gestures and rituals.
An ironic portrait of fascism built through archival footage, reducing the spectacle of power to its physical, absurd and ultimately dead weight.
An experimental reflection on identity, rupture and bodily perception.
Between uncertainty and the hope of a new direction, two young people face choices that could change the course of their lives forever.
Marco Santos is a filmmaker based in Porto, Portugal, working across fiction, documentary and experimental cinematic practices.
His work explores memory, identity, territory and the relationships between body, space and image.
His practice is shaped by an observational and sensitive approach, with a particular interest in the expressive use of sound, the experience of time and what remains unspoken.
His films create spaces where silence, ambiguity and atmosphere take a central role, leaving room for the viewer to form their own relationship with the images.
Across his recent films, Marco Santos explores how memory, political systems, collective narratives and intimate experience shape our perception of reality. Moving between fiction, archival practice and experimental cinema, his work is drawn to ambiguity, fragmented identities and what remains unspoken, using image, sound and atmosphere as spaces for the viewer to construct meaning.
Recent recognition
86 festival listings across four projects.
Selected recognition from recent festival screenings and competitions.






































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