A Esperança Está Onde Menos se Espera

 2009/Drama/122 min/
Director: Joaquim Leitão
Cast: Ana Padrão, Alcídia Vaz, Carlos Nunes, José Carlos Cardoso, Virgílio Castelo
Synopsis: Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the begin- ning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco’s team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.