Ivo Canelas Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 lives of two women intersect.

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also...

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...

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

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

Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation...

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

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

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...

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...