Ricardo Leite

Time Takes a Cigarette (2023)

In the late 70s and early 80s in the city of Porto, concerts by Rock and Punk bands began to appear. April 25, 1974, which put an end to the longest dictatorship in Europe, brought political and creative freedom. Through a series of tableaux vivants based ...

Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish (2023)

Shot in film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality exorcizing old ghosts. Stories from the director's childhood, together with conversations with his father, that fought in th ...

Here Where It All Ends (2023)

"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of indigenous people in the Brazil. It is, in particular, a sharing of knowledge carried out in Aldeia Bugio, ...

Blue Apples (2022)

Edila Gaitonde, born in the Azores, was the first Portuguese woman to marry a Goan of Indian origin during the Salazar dictatorship. Her husband was Pundalik Gaitonde, a freedom fighter who fought for Goa's independence from Portugal. Edila was a fighter, ...

Tarrafal (2016)

One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog. Some of these ghosts are alive. They are those who stayed, those who came back, those who roam the difficult memorie ...

Mazagão, a Água que Volta (2011)

Pursuit of Sacredness (2008)

This movie was directed in order to homage the poet Sebastião Alba, through Antonin Artaud's poem "Pursuit of Fecality". In this movie we can also find poems by Alba, as well as the director, Ricardo Leite. ...

White Bull (2003)

In this film, Ariadne, still a young adolescent, climbs to a mountain in the island of Crete to meditate about a strange dream. The daughter of King Minos, still didn't meet Theseus, and she neither knows about his existence, but in her dream about a bullf ...