DISJUNTOR is a training programme dedicated to the performing arts, centred on research, critical reflection and artistic experimentation.

Centered around the themes of wanderings, migrations, and diasporas, the programme includes two training courses led by João Cardoso (PT) + Bharath Yadav (IN), and Carolina Campos (BR); an artistic residency with a public presentation by João Cardoso + Bharath Yadav; and a film programme curated by Tânia Dinis (PT).

This film series brings together a selection of works that explore experiences of displacement, belonging, and transformation across different landscapes, memories, and communities. Moving between individual journeys and collective histories, these films evoke diverse ways of inhabiting movement, constructing identity, and negotiating the relationship between origin, absence, and reunion.


𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗬 • 𝟵:𝟰𝟱 𝗣𝗠

𝗡𝗵𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗮, 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀
2020, 18 min

After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé travels to Santiago Island, Cape Verde, to visit her brother, whose life hangs by a thread. During a stopover at Lisbon Airport, Águeda, a cleaner, recognises her as “Mila”, her childhood friend. Águeda invites her to spend the hours of her layover at her home, surrounded by the women of her family. As Salomé struggles to loosen the painful bond with her homeland, the spirit of the neighbourhood reconnects her with the essence to which she belongs.


𝗡𝗵𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗵𝗼, 𝗝𝗼𝘀é 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗼
2021, 20 min

Issa, a young footballer from Guinea-Bissau who, like many other young Africans, dreams of playing in Portugal’s top football leagues. By revealing the voices behind the camera, Nha Sunho becomes a reflection on perspective, bias, and the representation of the Other.


𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁ó𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀, 𝗠ó𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮
2009, 11 min

Two men travel on the same train, a russian soldier and a Chechen man with his family returning from the motherland… Without them knowing a genuine link connects them, Chechnya. A war for independence, for a territory that Russia doesn’t abdicate turns all Chechens into soldiers at birth.


𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗱𝗮, 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗰ã𝗼 𝗡𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗮
2022, 30 min

A mother returns from shopping, weighed down by heavy bags. She asks her son to help carry them home. As they walk together, they also confront the questions and tensions that weigh upon them.


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