Ivo Canelas Movies

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

Lisbon, 1980s, Rosa, a woman joins a group of young people disappointed at the post-Revolutionary Portugal. Part of a far-left clandestine armed...

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,...

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

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

The lives of two women intersect.

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...