Ivo Canelas Movies

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de...

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

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

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....

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

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

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

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".