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João Canijo (born 10 December, 1957; Porto) is a Portuguese filmmaker. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 film Blood of My Blood was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. His 2023 film Bad Living won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Before his directorial debut, Canijo worked as assistant director for Wim Wenders in The State of Things (1982) and for Werner Schroeter in Der Rosenkönig (1986).
Most Popular João Canijo Trailers
Total trailers found: 40
31 March 2000
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
24 April 2015
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars.
07 May 2011
Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come.
05 September 2007
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled.
03 March 1986
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
16 December 1994
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon.
07 April 2024
West, end of the summer. Laura works at the pear harvesting, a family business. During the afternoon, Carol arrives at the village to spend a few vacation days with her friends.
14 October 2006
A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she only should accept, the daughter can not explain what should be accepted.
22 March 1982
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956).
02 September 2020
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit.
11 November 1994
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory.
11 April 1990
Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.
06 September 1995
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
24 October 2015
A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.
29 January 2016
An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go.
01 January 2012
In Caxinas, the relationship between the woman and the fisherman is founded on trust, born of their mutual and complete dependence, which is vital for the survival of the family.
08 January 1986
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America.
11 March 1983
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
05 April 2012
This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.
18 November 1994
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
04 May 1990
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
27 April 2017
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
10 April 1998
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
19 February 1988
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets.
01 September 1987
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu.
24 April 2013
In Caxinas, a fishing neighborhood in Vila do Conde, a city on the north of Portugal, the relationship between the fishermen and their wives is based on vital trust and reciprocal and absolute dependence, in order to assure their families survival.
27 September 2011
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
07 May 2023
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them.
21 October 2004
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
11 May 2023
In a family-run hotel near the northern coast of Portugal, several women from the same family, spanning different generations, live together.
21 October 2017
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them.
24 April 1985
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation.
04 May 2001
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris.
22 April 2010
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
15 July 2016
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.
