Leonardo Simões Movies

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

Greice, a 21-year-old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts university in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with a mysterious...

A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a...

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....

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...

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...

Dorota is a woman of faith. Every day she strictly follows her intense routine of dedication to her Lord - which is somewhat unusual. One day,...

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...

Dawn is breaking into day. Fair day. As in every year. But this is a year of mourning. "It doesn't look right!" Vera says to her sister. And her...

Maria João lives isolated with her father. Fearing she will catch the disease carried by the wind that killed her mother, the father does not...

In this lyrical elegy lamenting the death of Madeleine, her husband, a theater actor, relives his very first memories of her.

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