A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera (2009)

Release Date:	2009, September 17
Directors:	Joaquim Leitão
Countries:	Portugal
Cast:	Heitor Lourenço, Yolanda, Ana Padrão, Lourenço Henriques, Virgílio Castelo, Ângelo Rodrigues, Tomás Wallenstein, Cândido Ferreira, Fernando Tavares Marques, Nuno Homem de Sá, Sofia Grillo, Sérgio Grilo

Overview:

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning 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.