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).

Born in 1989, she is a French filmmaker and screenwriter based in Lisbon. She studied literature, art and cinema at Denis Diderot University, in Paris. Her short films Motu Maeva (2014) and Black Sun (2019) have been selected at film festivals such as FID Marseille, Toronto, Mar del Plata, DocLisboa and Torino. Maureen works with film medium and is a member of L’Abominable, an artist-run lab based in Paris. The Tsugua Diaries is her first feature film.