Movies: Leonor Areal

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Maced...

This documentary shows a Brigade of medicine students that goes to a school to prevent AIDS. For 10 weeks, we follow their failures and achievements with a class of difficult but interesting characters. A film that asks us many questions about talkin...

The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century a...

Lesbian couple Teresa and Lena made national news in Portugal when they applied to get married. Leonor Areal's camera follows them, one amid scores of reporters' cameras, as they deal with the denial of their petition, and, more significantly, with t...

The starting point was a commonplace: «My life could be a movie». Following what each person believed to be subject for film, this documentary tells 4 life stories. This implies a main question: what moves the protagonists to show & tell their lives ...

Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, 2011. A slum is about to be demolished. On the verge of becoming homeless, dwellers organize to defend their right to housing....

In her visual essay, Leonor Areal invites the viewer to look in detail at a centenary film and at the dozens of people who appear after a concert, most of them men, in full suits and hats, many with mustaches. Among them, the poet Fernando Pessoa is ...

A class of 9-year-old children is making an animated movie, whose chosen theme is the “War on Iraq”. Their protagonists are the same we see on TV: George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Saddam, and Bin Laden. But the story is quite more imaginative… Children t...

For a decade, the unexpected theater group “Os Felizes da Fé” left its mark on the late 20 century’s art map. With its street happenings, the Felizes defied all forms of authority: civil, political or moral. However, their activity stopped suddenly i...