Ivo Canelas

Que Mulheres Serão Estas? (2024)

A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro Cabeleira (By Flávio), which proposes different possibilities for being a woman nowadays. ...

An Avocado Pit (2022)

Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from v ...

Soldier Millions (2018)

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions. ...

Inside Hou8e (2017)

Stories behind the conceptual photography project HOU8E (2014-2017) by the independent portuguese photographer Margarida Rodrigues (MAR). ...

On the Phone with God (2017)

Bartolomeu, a humble peasant, decides to exchange his mare Pestana for Adelia's hand in wedding. However, Bartolomeu's world is turned inside out when Pestana disappears and meets a mysterious man who claims to be able to talk to God... on the phone. ...

Zeus (2017)

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be ...

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor (2016)

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume. ...

Histórias de Alice (2016)

It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots across the ocean, discovering an intricate love story. Lucas's father, Olavo, was the son of a very wealthy Po ...

Ice (2016)

The lives of two women intersect. ...

Christmas Wrapping Paper (2014)

Dodu, a fearless little cardboard boy, Camilla, an enchanting 8-year-old girl and Santa, a Father Christmas for every day, rescue Camilla's father from the claws of the Waste Monster. As part of their adventure they recycle the wrapping paper from the Chri ...

Road 47 (2014)

During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that sets them running aimlessly right in the middle of 'no man's land'. Desperate cold and hungry, the ill-prepa ...

Road to Revolution (2014)

Road to Revolution follows the journey of three Portuguese journalists who travel through Tunisia, Syria, Egypt and Libya, two years after the uprising that became known as the Arab Spring. There they meet the men and women who have experienced the consequ ...

Assim Assim (2012)

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives. ...

Florbela (2012)

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love. ...

Under My Skin (2011)

On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him. ...

A Cova (2011)

Cruz and Queimado are two criminals who have to dispose of a dead body. An innocent fisherman will alter their plans and their lives permanently. ...

O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte (2010)

In a remote village in Alentejo, the train is the only connection to the world and to the politics of the capital. The news of the establishment of the Republic is spread by telegraph, but in this Alentejo village, telegraph operator Miguel Zuzarte is a st ...

Shoot Me (2010)

The bride to be is about to choose her wedding dress... a mother torn between future stability and a past she is unable to let go. What happens when the phone rings? Will, elegance and grace burned by consuming passion. Red lipstick; a forbidden encounter; ...

O Dez (2010)

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology. ...

The Beauty and the Paparazzo (2010)

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privac ...

Respiro (2010)

Conexão (2009)

O Último Condenado à Morte (2009)

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal. ...

Budapeste (2009)

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue ...

Desavergonhadamente Real (2009)

Two actors, four characters, one short film inside another one and a sexual tension that won't stop with the word "cut". ...

The Art of Stealing (2008)

Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess. ...

The Lovebirds (2008)

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in ...

Do outro lado do mundo (2008)

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the f ...

Call Girl (2007)

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him ope ...

The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict betwe ...

20.13: Purgatory (2006)

Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered. Simultaneously, the Capitan's wife arrives in surprise, bringing along a Priest, who is supposed to celebrate ...

Alice (2005)

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods. ...

A Shot in the Dark (2005)

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers... ...

The Uncertainty Principle (2002)

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. ...

Antonio, a Boy in Lisbon (2002)

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation. ...

Monsanto (2000)

Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationshi ...

Fuga (1999)

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide. ...

Zona J (1998)

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans... ...

Minus 9 (1997)

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in comm ...

A Day in the Musician Life (1996)

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995 ...