Hugo Leitão Movies

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

At Uz, an isolated hamlet in the northern mountains of Portugal, four generations live together in a group of around fifty people. When life is...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa meet in a movie theatre.

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

Aboard the “Express Santorini” cruise, Between Islands travels through the Azores archipelago. Through diaries, archive images and using...

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

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....

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...

“Sacavém” is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films and focused on his work on “Down to Earth”,...

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...

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...