Mónica Santos

Has won two Sophia awards, by the Portuguese Film Academy, and a nomination for César, by the French Academy. After finishing her Master’s Degree at the Royal College of Art, as a Gulbenkian fellow, she worked with exponents of Portuguese cinema. The short films Amélia & Duarte and Between the Shadows (co-directed) distinguished themselves by the awards they received. Palma was her first solo short film.

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara