🎬My Senses Are All I Have to Offer

In a subtle, near-future world, a unique technology exists in the form of "sensory pills"—pharmaceuticals that allow individuals to telepathically link and experience another person's physical and emotional sensations from a great distance. Through this high-tech sensory bond, Lourdes (Ágata Pinho) and Lana (Isadora Alves) meet, fall in love, and cultivate a deeply intimate, long-distance relationship.

After months of navigating their romance purely through shared telepathic data, Lourdes decides it is time to bring Lana into her physical reality. She invites her to visit her family's remote country house to meet her parents, Vicente (Albano Jerónimo) and Carl (Mário Afonso).

However, the transition from a perfect, curated psychic connection to the messy realities of physical space, family expectations, and underlying class differences immediately creates a quiet, heavy tension. When an unforeseen, violent storm rolls in, it traps the family indoors. Amidst the claustrophobia of the house and alarming broadcast news about a local child who has gone missing in the tempest, Lana's reliance on telepathy begins to fracture. She is forced to question the actual limits of her empathy, wondering if transferring biological sensations can ever truly bridge the gap of human isolation.

💡 Did You Know? 🧠
Celluloid Texture: To achieve the film's intensely rich, organic, and dreamlike tones, director Isadora Neves Marques and cinematographer Marta Simões shot the entire project on 16mm film using Kodak 200T and 250D stock before transferring it to video.

A Rising Queer Voice: Neves Marques has quickly become a prominent fixture on the international queer arthouse festival circuit. Her previous acclaimed short fiction work includes Becoming Male in the Middle (2022).