Nuno Leonel

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apartment in Lisbon. All her life, she refused conventions. Today, on Christmas Eve, she is faced with a “trivial” decision. Hospitality.

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apartment in Lisbon. All her life, she refused conventions. Today, on Christmas Eve, she is faced with a “trivial” decision. Hospitality.

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apartment in Lisbon. All her life, she refused conventions. Today, on Christmas Eve, she is faced with a “trivial” decision. Hospitality.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.

Decisive shifts in the oceans have caused significant problems in the eponymous village in the Azorean archipelago, where fishing has long been a tradition and an essential livelihood. Pedro is a young man confronted with the problem of how to carry on despite this crisis (and the inherent dangers of working at sea). Pinto and Leonel follow Pedro over the full, yearlong cycle of seasons, capturing the rhythms of life and work in a changing community. - FilmLinc

Decisive shifts in the oceans have caused significant problems in the eponymous village in the Azorean archipelago, where fishing has long been a tradition and an essential livelihood. Pedro is a young man confronted with the problem of how to carry on despite this crisis (and the inherent dangers of working at sea). Pinto and Leonel follow Pedro over the full, yearlong cycle of seasons, capturing the rhythms of life and work in a changing community. - FilmLinc

Decisive shifts in the oceans have caused significant problems in the eponymous village in the Azorean archipelago, where fishing has long been a tradition and an essential livelihood. Pedro is a young man confronted with the problem of how to carry on despite this crisis (and the inherent dangers of working at sea). Pinto and Leonel follow Pedro over the full, yearlong cycle of seasons, capturing the rhythms of life and work in a changing community. - FilmLinc

Joaquim Pinto, que vive com HIV há mais de duas décadas, faz uma retrospectiva da sua vida no cinema, de suas amizades e amores, dos mistérios da arte e da natureza – tudo isso enquanto se submete a um tratamento medicamentoso experimental.

Joaquim Pinto, que vive com HIV há mais de duas décadas, faz uma retrospectiva da sua vida no cinema, de suas amizades e amores, dos mistérios da arte e da natureza – tudo isso enquanto se submete a um tratamento medicamentoso experimental.

Joaquim Pinto, que vive com HIV há mais de duas décadas, faz uma retrospectiva da sua vida no cinema, de suas amizades e amores, dos mistérios da arte e da natureza – tudo isso enquanto se submete a um tratamento medicamentoso experimental.

Joaquim Pinto, que vive com HIV há mais de duas décadas, faz uma retrospectiva da sua vida no cinema, de suas amizades e amores, dos mistérios da arte e da natureza – tudo isso enquanto se submete a um tratamento medicamentoso experimental.

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

A visualization of Alberto Caeiro's (Fernando Pessoa's) poem 'O Guardor de Rebanhos' (The keeper of Herds AKA the keeper of Flocks).

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus, filmed outdoors, from dawn to sunset, and materialized in the grain of the voice, the expression, control, rhythm and breath of the actor himself.

Esta versão da famosa história de “Les Diaboliques” de Barbey d’Aurevilly (1874) apresenta belas músicas clássicas, figurinos e convenções teatrais que resultam em puro cinema. Um rico e decadente homem do mundo conhece uma mulher das ruas excepcional.

Uma história sobre arte e homens cultos, e sobre como a sua arte e a sua cultura se revelam inúteis face à dura realidade da vida no século XX.

Era uma vez… um porquinho de porcelana de origem francesa, mais concretamente da região de Sèvres, e de nobre ascendência. Tinha sido moldado à mão por um ancião de barbas brancas, não como um qualquer porco mealheiro feito sem amor numa forma mecânica. E pintado com florinhas primaveris por um jovem artista. Servira famílias abastadas. Mas o gosto dos humanos é imprevisível, e os anos 50 tinham trazido uma leva de porquinhos espaciais com motivos geométricos. Começou então a sua trajectória descendente na escala porcina. Felizmente encontrava agora sossego em mãos pobres mas amigas, e melhor que tudo, era amado! Esta história conta os seus últimos dias antes de voltar à terra.

This contemplative piece, an exploration of time’s passage and the permanence of nature, sets Beethoven’s “Sonata em sol menor” against images of farmers tilling the soil and flowers carried along by a brook. - FilmLinc

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.

"Com Cuspe e com Jeito Se Bota no Cu do Sujeito" observes a transvestite cook making a typical Brazilian plate, feijoada à brasileira.

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.

A portrait of a group of teens from a Rio de Janeiro slum learning to surf.