Iconic personality of Portuguese cinema and theater, Luis Miguel Cintra started acting and stage directing early. He has worked as a professor and a critic as a well, and he has edited theater collections.
Founder of the Teatro da Cornucópia, in 1973 with Jorge Silva Melo, his professional life is intimately linked to that company's work. Throughout forty years, Luís Miguel Cintra staged Sophocles, Shakespeare, Gil Vicente, Strindberg, Tchekhov, Brecht, Müller, Lope de Vega, Cálderon, Genet, Pasolini, among a vast list of authors. In 1988, one of his stagings was shown at the Avignon Festival – La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa. In cinema, he has worked with Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, José Álvaro Morais, Jorge Silva Melo, Pedro Costa, Joaquim Pinto, Teresa Villaverde, João Botelho, Maria de Medeiros and John Malkovich. He won the Pessoa Prize in 2005.
He has received a “Globo de Ouro” for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and another for Best Theater Actor (2003). The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of the films he starred in, and also as a stage director, by displaying filmed stagings of some of his plays, followed by discussions with several actors who he worked with, as well as the audience.