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.

In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.

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?

화제의 베스트셀러 ‘디덜러스‘. 이 책의 마지막 장 출판을 위해 9개국의 번역가들이 고용된다. 결말 유출을 막기 위해 아무도 나갈 수 없는 지하 밀실에서 작업을 시작한 그들. 하지만 곧 첫 10페이지가 인터넷에 공개된다. 그리고 편집장 ‘에릭’에게 도착한 한 통의 메시지. "돈을 보내지 않으면 다음 100페이지를 공개하겠다.” ‘에릭‘은 모든 수단을 동원해 범인을 찾으려 하고, 번역가들은 서로를 의심하기 시작하는데…

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.

강인한 여군 마리아는 실험을 통해 탄생한 초인병사 TS-347를 가로채 연구소를 탈출한다. 숙취에서 깨어난 페드로는 좀비로 아수라장이 된 바깥세상에서 마리아를 만난다. 정부는 좀비구역에 핵폭탄을 투하하고 살아남은 사람들은 모두 돌연변이가 되는데…

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.

세계적인 축구 선수 디아만티노는 특유의 경기 감각을 잃고 불명예 은퇴에 이르게 된다. 그는 여전히 국제적인 아이콘으로서 새로운 목표를 좇아 광란의 여정에 나선다. 그 속에서 그가 마주하는 네오파시즘, 난민 위기, 유전자 조작 그리고 천재 발굴 등의 다채로운 이슈가 펼쳐진다.

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.