Hugo Leitão Movies

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

The art of delusion is sculpted with images from a family archive from the 70s and 80s and sound clips from films. Madame Bovary is Flaubert's...

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

“Heatstroke” reflects on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. They...

It's summer in the Portuguese countryside, where the local festivities take place. Chico is haunted by a hate crime committed in his village against...

Good girl Ana learns a lesson in selfishness when her generous nature is put to the test by an old friend.

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by...

A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and...

Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the...

After the Carnation Revolution the peasants in the Alentejo region occupied the huge proprieties where they were once submitted to the power of their...

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

In 1970, Léopold Senghor – President of Independent Senegal – wants to create a “Senegalese” architecture... and...

Somewhere in the Alentejo there are two great ovens covered in dirt where a man makes charcoal. Essential elements like fire, water, air, earth and...

Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa meet in a movie theatre.

The National Ballet of Portugal is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation, it has aimed to present the great classics, as well as to...

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...