Maria Leite

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

En un mundo atemporal, futurista y sin esperanza, la humanidad ha empezado un éxodo hacia nuevos planetas en busca de vida. Pedro, atrapado en una cotidianidad repetitiva, perseguido por extraños sueños y el miedo a quedarse solo, desea por encima de todo embarcarse en un viaje intergaláctico y empezar de nuevo. No obstante, todo cambia cuando conoce a Eva.

It's last week at school, but Simon's not studying for his finals. His parents have divorced and seem to be waiting for a change that never comes. Simon gets tired of waiting. Could he get a one-way ticket to the USA? Would it be possible to make objects explode from afar? And what if time could be reversed? Or if freedom is only to be found in movies?

El editor de un escritor de bestsellers introduce a nueve traductores en un búnker de lujo con el fin de que traduzcan en tiempo récord su última novela y evitando cualquier fuga. A pesar de esta precaución, las diez primeras páginas han sido publicadas. ¿Quién lo hizo?

On a pleasant full moon evening, a group of friends is playing cards on a terrace overlooking the beach. In the distance, on the open sea, somewhere between eroticism and violence, two young women float over the triteness of their conversations and the absurdity of their actions.

María, una intrépida soldado, y el TS-347, un hombre con una fuerza sobrehumana, están siendo perseguidos por una célula militar responsable de los experimentos científicos que han resultado en un apocalipsis zombi. En el camino, se encontrarán con Pedro, un hombre con pocas ambiciones y una gran resaca. Juntos, intentarán escapar a un lugar seguro, pero las complicaciones se cruzarán en su camino en forma de bomba nuclear.

An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using Rasputine as his profile name. This virtual relationship becomes the centre of their lives and one day, they finally decide to meet. But, on his way, António has an accident…

Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão.

Diamantino no es una persona cualquiera, tiene el don celestial de tratar muy bien el balón... Un don que, de un día para otro, desaparece, dejando a esta estrella del fútbol desamparada y obligándole a buscar un nuevo propósito a la vida. Comienza entonces una odisea fabulosa y una sátira política protagonizada por un jugador cuyo pose, pendientes y corte de pelo recuerdan a Cristiano Ronaldo.

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.

Variations around the texts of the poet Al Berto (1948-1997). In Al Berto´s work, fiction and autobiography converge into a register of reciprocal contamination – as well as lyricism and narrativity. The poetry served Al Berto as a register and memory aid. Therefore, the view is so important in this work: the act of looking confuses itself here with the writings. Thefore, because Al Berto´s poetry is another way of looking, it calls, requests other images that complement the comprehension of the writings, or if they oppose it, then in this opposition, bring new meanings to the reading.

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.

He came from the city and is trying to fit in the countryside – Alentejo. His life is dedicated to picking raspberries, hunting and taking swims in the canal. She is passing through and comes from the world he wanted to leave behind. One day they meet and their attraction is immediate. But their natures prevail over all else: she is free and he's a hunter.

Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.

In the summer of 1969, four friends built a raft to travel down two Portuguese rivers from the center of the country to Lisbon. Forty years later, the son of one of these men reported this event in a book of poems, as a metaphor of the Portuguese travel literature of the 16Th and 17Th centuries. After, it occurred to him to turn the poems into a real event, to invite some friends to reenact the raft journey and exhibit texts from those peregrinations. His brother went along to film the floating recital.

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.

Lúcia is a lawyer that works to help women whose the father of the relationship deny the paternity. A job she is very keen about since she doesn't know who her father is.

In one afternoon Rafael’s paradise becomes a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

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 family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's vitality fascinates him.