Leonardo Simões

Greice (2024)

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidde ...

À Mesa da Unidade Popular (2024)

The Mesa da Unidade Popular (People's Unity Table) was part of the furniture that, in the post-independence period, the Mozambican state intended to give to all families. It brought together the socialist idea of equality and social justice with the concep ...

A Moeda-Viva (2024)

Victor is a poor and submissive man who serves his general and the palace of an aristocratic family. Haunted by the red lips of his beloved Maria, he suffers unbearable hallucinations that lead him to the great precipice of death. "Illicit Trade" explores ...

The Daughters of Fire (2023)

The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through musi ...

The Fever of Maria João (2023)

Maria João lives isolated with her father. Fearing she will catch the disease carried by the wind that killed her mother, the father does not allow her to leave the house. In exchange, he narrates stories of adventure to her. One night, an ex-soldier turn ...

Why Are You Image Plus? (2023)

Ima is a little girl who passed away too soon. Desperate to talk to her grandmother, she decides to possess a young boy. But an old spirit is interfering with her plans. Inventive and playful, Why Are You Image Plus? is a jewel of irony and a precise satir ...

The Guitar Barrel Project (2023)

Fantasmas do Império (2020)

Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as Fern ...

Vitalina Varela (2019)

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life. ...

Destiny Deluxe (2019)

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into a photoshoot by accident, Chloé who hopes to find a place to do her own work, and Helena who is back in her tow ...

Mirage My Bros (2017)

An elementary school class without a teacher, a contract signing with a giant football club and a new year's eve party. Three tales tinged with aspiration and the desire to escape express a look into a youth absorbed by the power of dreams and the harshnes ...

Black Heart (2017)

A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores. ...

The Secret Agent (2015)

An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution. ...

Horse Money (2014)

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods. ...

The Invisible Life (2013)

There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can't face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António's house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hug ...

Historic Centre (2012)

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012. ...

Sweet Exorcist (2012)

A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator. ...

Impunidades Criminosas (2012)

This Side of Resurrection (2011)

The film tells the story of a sister and a brother, Inês and Rafael. Since the divorce of their parents, their family never saw Rafael again. Inês runs away from home looking for him when she is told he is back at the Guincho Beach and surfing again. Raf ...

The Social Division of Labor According to Adam Smith (2011)

Five workers on an assembly line at a large company based in an airport challenge the impossibility of changing the social division of labor, carried out in accordance with the classical principles of specialization and segmentation. ...

Civil War (2010)

Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested ...

Poema Colagem - Homenagem a Mário Cesariny (2010)

Urban Landscape with Girl and Plane (2008)

Boy meets girl. The daily life of Dino and Helena is difficult and the grief is growing in a way that encloses them while they search for an urgent solution. ...

The 15th Stone (2007)

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then]. Two humanists of different philosophical backgrounds, both with their long, entire live ...

Europe 2007 (2007)

Somewhere in Europe... Nightime. A woman and two men in a van making its way through a maze of highways. The woman looks into the darkness, and then at the traffic that's getting denser. The two men take her into a rundown building. The woman is assaulted. ...

Colossal Youth (2006)

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past. ...

A Batalha dos Três Reis (2005)

During their vacation in Morocco, David suggests to Laura that they visit Vasco, an old friend of his. Laura objects, but David eventually convinces her, leading her on a journey of no return, where they will experience an insane game of jealousy and the r ...

Autography (2004)

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality. ...

Fair Day (2004)

Dawn is breaking into day. Fair day. As in every year. But this is a year of mourning. "It doesn't look right!" Vera says to her sister. And her mother-in-law looks at her and remembers the dead son. Remembrance is a silence between the two of them. Childr ...

Altar (2003)

A widowed theater actor relives his memory of a young love. ...

14 de Fevereiro (a 1 de Abril) (2003)

The life of a couple flickers between February 14th and April 1st of the same year. ...

Antes Que o Tempo Mude (2003)

Laura doesn't know what to do with her loneliness. She gets involved in multiple games of seduction, unable to go home alone, without someone to share her affections with. She confides in her sister, Sara, they share dinners, they confide their fears. Laur ...

Almirante Reis (2002)

Saramago: Documentos (1996)

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life. ...

Coroa de Espinhos (2017)

Dorota is a woman of faith. Every day she strictly follows her intense routine of dedication to her Lord - which is somewhat unusual. One day, Dorota's faith is put to the test. ...