Carloto Cotta
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

Diamantino
(2018)Diamantino, Portugal鈥檚 (the world鈥檚!) top football player, becomes embroiled in a genetic experiment and a conspiracy to leave the EU, in this joyful, postmodern political fantasy.

The Tsugua Diaries
(2021)Three close friends, Crista Carloto and Jo茫o - along an entire film crew - become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment shot during the lockdown. Shot in sumptuous 16mm during the pandemic, the film is one of the most playful cinematic creations of the pandemic, for which personal restrictions provided a source of inspiration and pure joy in the creative process.

Tabu
(2012)A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films.

Gl贸ria
Spies, lies and secrets flourish in Gl贸ria do Ribatejo, 1968, as a privileged Radio Free Europe engineer plays all the angles of Cold War Portugal.

You Won't Be Alone
(2022)In 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim's shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power to understand what it means to be human.

Lines of Wellington
(2012)This lavish, star-studded epic set during the great Napoleonic Wars chronicles the lives of both the nobility and the poor against a tapestry of love affairs, deceit, intrigue and violence.

Two Drifters
(2005)After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete (Ana Cristina De Oliveira) descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of Rui's (Nuno Gil) late lover, Pedro (Teresa Madruga). As grief-stricken Rui mourns Pedro's death, Odete tries to transform herself into Pedro.

Forgotten
(2014)After a heart attack, retired general Jose Mendieta is haunted by his past work aiding a CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America.