Aniversário(2000)

Aniversário is a Portuguese drama centered on a family milestone that threatens to unravel. Francisco and Leonor Teixeira gather their loved ones on their farm to celebrate three decades of marriage, but the festive occasion becomes fraught when their youngest son Ricardo arrives after five years of silence with his father. As relatives arrive to mark the occasion, old tensions resurface and the celebration becomes a crucible for buried resentments. The film explores how a single event can force a fractured family to confront the rifts that have defined them, testing whether time and tradition can heal what anger has broken.