Ivo Canelas Movies

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

The lives of two women intersect.

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

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....

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

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...

In a not-so-distant future, plants refuse to grow and life as we know it has ceased to exist. A solitary survivor miraculously resists death,...

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

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

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

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...