Hugo Leitão Movies

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

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

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...

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...

In Rio de Janeiro, people from the Mangueira neighbourhood follow the television broadcast on a big screen as the juries vote on each samba school....

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

While observing others, Paula is also, herself, observed. ' Know the difference between an old maid and a spinster? The old maid does not have a...

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

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

Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is...

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

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...

After the raging fire, landmarks are rediscovered, artificial frontiers carved into the earth. They are stones founded in history by almost extinct...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the...

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

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective...

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...

On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.

Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa meet in a movie theatre.