Margarida Leitão

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years apart. With days passing by, the lines between film and life increasingly become blurred.

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A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years apart. With days passing by, the lines between film and life increasingly become blurred.

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years apart. With days passing by, the lines between film and life increasingly become blurred.

A contemporary portrait of young people who put themselves to the test by risking their lives for a tradition: the forcados.

An exploration of gender stereotypes using archival family footage

A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.

A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.

From the tiny sewing studio in Tires Prison (Portugal) Vicky, Yau and Iracy hand-sew designer La.Ga handbags. Mothers separated from their children and families, imprisoned in a foreign country that they only get to know behind thick bars. In a mix of languages, we understand that time spent in this "factory" simply flies but in the cells the daily struggle goes on. Just like La.Ga, women also come out of prisons with a stamp. Can designer objects, sold from New York to Tokyo, contribute towards changing the lives of the women who produce them behind bars? In Venezuela we meet Yanetzi, an ex-inmate from Tires, now working 9 to 5 in an office. At night that she creates the bags that her son will sell in the streets of Caracas the following day. Design Behind Bars is an intimate portrait of the women's feelings towards life inside and outside the confines and how working with design changed them.

A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.

Audiovisual Essay using "Stromboli, terra di dio" by Roberto Rosselini and "At Land" by Maya Deren.

"Face to Face" is a portrait of a youth that challenges itself and risk its life for tradition. They belong to a unique group of men who devote the best years of their youth to this group. The abide to the rules imposed by tradition and discipline of a hierarchy. Together they tesT the limits of their braveness and fear. In the arena, under the astound eyes of a silent audience, they put themselves to the test and risk their lives. In Portugal and in Mexico young forcados stand up to the bulls "face to face".

A six-year-old girl once more silently witnesses a family break up. Her father comes back with an invitation for a day out.

A six-year-old girl once more silently witnesses a family break up. Her father comes back with an invitation for a day out.

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband.

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband.