Leonor Areal

Leonor Areal

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Doctor Strange Love 2005 (2)

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 talking of sexuality and that is an important case study to the actual political debate on sexual education. The Brigades are voluntary groups of medicine students, who go to the schools to prevent risky behaviours and fight AIDS. Doctor Strange Love follows the action of a Brigade in the midst of a teenager class, focusing on value contrasts and relationships, through this experience of changing minds and consciousness.
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Fora da lei 2006 (0.5)

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 the negative fallout the publicity generates. Though seeking equal rights, in the process of being recognizable public figures, the two women and their daughters instead find themselves facing even greater discrimination in housing, work, and school.
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Aqui Tem Gente 2013

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.