Hugo Leitão Movies

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...

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes...

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...

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

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

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

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic,...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing 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...

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of...

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

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroads. He is a first-hand witness of the...

The world is not enough to cover all the misfortunes that afflict Lucas. An orphan, a loner and a troublemaker, Lucas is a moving target for all...

Gilda is terminally ill. Her only wish is to die without pain, and as all her suicide attempts comically fail, she decides to seek professional help.

A modern villa in the dry Portuguese summer landscape. The sun scorching bright high in the sky, four well-built bodies - three male, one female -...

A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

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

The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak...

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