João Canijo

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose ...

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space ...

A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the ...

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

In Caxinas, a fishing neighborhood in Vila do Conde, a city on the north of Portugal, the relationship between the fishermen and their wives is ...

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

In Caxinas, the relationship between the woman and the fisherman is founded on trust, born of their mutual and complete dependence, which is ...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for ...

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She ...

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she ...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. ...

In today’s Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center’s music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother ...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis ...

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman’s The Day the World Ended (1956). The ...