Born in Portugal in 1969. He graduated in filmmaking in Lisbon and completed his studies at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba, and at New York Film Academy, in the USA. Barahona has worked as a sound engineer in many feature and documentary films and has directed, among others, the short movies Pastoral (2004) and Quem É Ricardo? (2004) and the documentaries Corn (2008), The Lost Manuscrit (2010, 35th Mostra), Far From Home Movie (2012), I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You (2015, 39th Mostra) and Clandestine Soul (2018, 42nd Mostra).