Laís Andrade is a Brazilian-Portuguese director, writer and visual artist whose work is mainly inspired by migration and autobiography. 

Since 2024, she is a FilmEU PhD student at Lusófona University, researching and creating on the representation of slavery in film, following her debut video installation “My Ray of Sunshine” (2024), winner of Best Audiovisual Award on the international residency MANIFEST – New artistic perspectives on memories of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. 

She wrote and directed “Green House” (2021), an award-winning short fiction film about migrant workers in portuguese illegal plantations, based on stories from her community. 

She also directed short films such as “Gagne Pain” (2021) and “Diamante” (2023) and co-wrote “As if the World Had No West” (2024) with Mónica de Miranda and Ondjaki. 

Her next short film, “Ticket 13, Desk 5”, selected to IndieLisboa Lab 2025, is based on her own migration experience as a child. 

Photo credit: Hugo Botelho