João Canijo

Diário das Beiras

Anabela Moreira, João Canijo

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 testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.

Trabalho de Actriz, Trabalho de Actor

João Canijo

Rafael Morais, Rita Blanco

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work.

Sangue do Meu Sangue

João Canijo

Rafael Morais, Nuno Lopes

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

Fantasia Lusitana

João Canijo

António de Oliveira Salazar, Américo Tomás

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Lisbon Story

Wim Wenders

Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Fátima

João Canijo

Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira

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

Noite Escura

João Canijo

Beatriz Batarda, Rita Blanco

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Mal Nascida

João Canijo

Anabela Moreira, Márcia Breia

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 wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

Ganhar a Vida

João Canijo

Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz

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. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Mãe Há Só Uma

João Canijo

Rita Blanco, Vera Barreto

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 only should accept, the daughter can not explain what should be accepted.

Portugal: Um Dia de Cada Vez

Anabela Moreira, João Canijo

A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.

É o Amor

João Canijo

Francisquinho, Anabela Moreira

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 based on vital trust and reciprocal and absolute dependence, in order to assure their families survival.

Filha da Mãe

João Canijo

Rita Blanco, Lídia Franco

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.

Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois...

Manuel Mozos

Canto e Castro, Pedro Hestnes

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

Três Menos Eu

João Canijo

Rita Blanco, Anne Gautier

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 separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.

Fojos

Anabela Moreira, João Canijo

Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.