“Amelia’s Children” (*1/2 out of four) was a misbegotten affair about a young man (Carloto Cotta) who searches for his family in Portugal and reunites with his long-lost mother and twin (Anabela Moreira and Alba Baptista) but soon finds that they have a dark secret that endangered their past and still endangers all of their futures together. Dour and downbeat film has a few effective moments but never builds to much and goes almost completely flat. Inauspicious directorial debut for noted producer and short filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes.