Francisca Alarcão

2026

For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons. Nothing makes her more anxious than this simple part of the body and the shapes in the world that resemble it. When therapy isn't enough to solve her cherished phobia , Francisca turns to other types of methods - without any scientific basis and not recommended for anyone who suffers from the same condition.

Francisca Alarcão
Portugal, Spain
2026
15 min
Russian Premiere

Francisca Alarcão
Francisca Alarcão
Hugo Costa
Pedro Teixeira
Maria Novo,
Francisca Alarcão, Catarina Mourão,
Rodrigo Teixeira

Francisca Alarcão
Francisca Alarcão
Hugo Costa
Pedro Teixeira
Maria Novo, Francisca Alarcão, Catarina Mourão, Rodrigo Teixeira

Goodbye, beach (2022)
Moving Tide (2021)

Francisca Alarcão was born in Lisbon, in 2000. She studied communication design in high school. In 2021, she graduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School, in the field of directing, where she made Moving Tide (2021) and Goodbye, Beach (2022). She also works as an actress, having starred in films by João Rosas, Leonor Noivo, Mariana Santana and Bingham Bryant. In 2024, she completed a master's degree in Filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián, where she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. O (2026) is her new short-film.