Ivo Canelas Movies

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...

A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro...

Bartolomeu, a humble peasant, decides to exchange his mare Pestana for Adelia's hand in wedding. However, Bartolomeu's world is turned inside out...

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...

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

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who...

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço,...

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

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

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

Road to Revolution follows the journey of three Portuguese journalists who travel through Tunisia, Syria, Egypt and Libya, two years after the...

Dodu, a fearless little cardboard boy, Camilla, an enchanting 8-year-old girl and Santa, a Father Christmas for every day, rescue Camilla’s...

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...

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

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

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