
António Aleixo
Directing
Biography
Awarded by the Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award 2019 for best short documentary amongst others before, António is a talented Portuguese director born in Setúbal with a track record of an international career mainly directing commercials and documentaries.
Known For

When Catarina finds out that she is pregnant, she questions the responsibility of bringing a child into this world.
The End was Just the Beginning

A journey through the Brazilian Amazon, guided by the eyes of Renato, a Carioca turned Amazorioca. A reflection on identity, the legacy of an ancestral territory, and the cost of progress. An ode to the forest and the fragility of what remains.
AMAZORIOCA

Tiago Pereira invites geographer and author Álvaro Domingues for a journey through Terras da Chanfana. The film portrays a present without presuming to guess its future or longing for a gone past, looking into the question of what is a territory.
Spread Through Inland

The world is huge, you have to be ready... 16.10.12 is a drama that addresses the dilemma of a father facing the inevitability of death.
16.10.12

In February 2022, I found a quote by Gonçalo Santa Ferreira at the Bombu Mininu bar in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde. “All is Wind on a Flying Island”
All is Wind on a Flying Island

In 2021, the director Antonio Aleixo opened a Pandora Box. Eleven hours of super 8 film recorded by his grandparents. And with it came the question that gives a title to this cathartic documentary where the fragilities and heritages of a family dynamic are exposed. How much of the root still lives in the fruit?
I Wanted to Know Who I Am

A film about a paradise through the eyes of those who live there. From the weight of Leve Leve to the sour of Doce Doce.
The Weight of Leve Leve

a post quarantine short documentary
Time to Be a Boy

In a time when more and more children are given tablets and smartphones to play with, it's important we look at education and what's most important about it. Kids Sapiens Sapiens is an experimental short documentary sustained on the inputs of Pedro, Carolina and Yasmin on their own education. Sophia Award 2019 for Best Short Documentary by the Portuguese Film Academy