Nuno Leonel

Pathos (2021)

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world's disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apart ...

Pathos Ethos Logos (2021)

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths ...

Fish Tail (2015)

Decisive shifts in the oceans have caused significant problems in the eponymous village in the Azorean archipelago, where fishing has long been a tradition and an essential livelihood. Pedro is a young man confronted with the problem of how to carry on des ...

The Keeper of Herds (2014)

Adaptation of the poem by Fernando Pessoa. ...

What Now? Remind Me (2014)

Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. "What now? Remind Me" is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics ...

Archangels Don't Play Pinball (2014)

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more. ...

The Keeper of Herds (2013)

A visualization of Alberto Caeiro's (Fernando Pessoa's) poem 'O Guardor de Rebanhos' (The keeper of Herds AKA the keeper of Flocks). ...

The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John (2013)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus, filmed outdoors, from dawn to sunset, and materialized in the grain of the voice, the expression, control, rh ...

A Woman's Revenge (2012)

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of lif ...

The Invisible Collection (2009)

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life. ...

Porca Miséria (2007)

Sol Menor (2007)

This contemplative piece, an exploration of time's passage and the permanence of nature, sets Beethoven's "Sonata em sol menor" against images of farmers tilling the soil and flowers carried along by a brook. ...

Snow White (2000)

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser's anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in ...

Com Cuspe e com Jeito Se Bota no Cu do Sujeito (1998)

A trans* cook making a typical Brazilian plate, feijoada à brasileira. ...

Guardian Angel (1998)

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother ...

How Do I Love Thee (1998)

It's been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of me, smiling, radiant, pregnant. And there's me, who thought he was cured of you. ...

Surfavela (1996)

A portrait of a group of teens from a Rio de Janeiro slum learning to surf. ...

What Now? Remind Me (2014)

Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. "What now? Remind Me" is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics ...

Archangels Don't Play Pinball (2014)

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more. ...