Movies: Leandra Leal

Rio de Janeiro, 2012. 30 year-old Karine, 8 months pregnant, loses her husband in a senseless murder. She and her brother almost die, but are saved by Pastor Naldo, an evangelical pastor from the Church of Eden. Karine carries within her the conflict...

A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men and a homeless community at the same time....

A young aspiring priest who lives in a rural location decides to go to the city of São Paulo in search of his missing sister. At the same time, a young man who recently moved from the suburbs to the center of São Paulo is struggling with the separati...

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Ru...

A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them ...

Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Min...

In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game....

A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro...

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting....

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been...

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother I...