Born in Lisbon in 1972, he studied at the School of Theater and Cinema in the Portuguese capital and worked as a film critic. In 2012, the 36th Mostra held an early retrospective of his work, exhibiting his award-winning short films and his feature films A Cara que Mereces (2004), This Dear Month of August (2008) —Critic’s Prize at the 32nd Mostra— and Tabu (2012), awarded the Alfred Bauer and the International Critics Prizes at the Berlin Film Festival. The Mostra also screened the short film Redemption (2013) and the Arabian Nights feature films trilogy (2015).
