Leonardo Simões Movies

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

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...

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,...

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...

In three different time periods, we follow the relationship between three friends — Sara, Manuel and João — whom life has...

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...

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

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

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...

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...

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

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...

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

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....

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...

In a spa surrounded by mountains of salt, guests relax while workers collect the glowing crystals in the sun. Children slip away, a woman drifts...

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and...

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

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...

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...