João Salaviza Trailers
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João Salaviza (Portuguese: João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; born 19 February 1984; Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard.
João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.
Most Popular João Salaviza Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
28 October 2011
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
29 October 2016
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction.
27 April 2017
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily.
04 February 2000
The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend.
21 February 2018
Russa returns to Bairro do Aleixo, in Oporto, visiting her sister and friends with whom she celebrates her son's birthday.
23 May 2009
A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood.
14 November 2004
A man is seen by a prostitute in his home. They try to communicate. But the loneliness they both carry creates a gap between them, enabling that communication.
21 December 1996
Blanche, a social worker living in Southern France is assigned the case of a five year old deaf boy, who is found by a Gypsy lady after having been abandoned and tied to a shed near her trailer.
07 July 2011
In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them.
23 June 2012
Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity.
07 January 2011
Casa Na Comporta is one of four films commissioned to different directors for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
10 February 2017
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.
30 April 2009
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
24 November 2023
The Mentuwajê Guardians of Culture (a group of young Krahô filmmakers) invite the Beture Collective (Mebêngôkre-Kayapó) to visit their village and attend the Kêtwajê festival – an important initiation ritual that has not taken place for ten years.
01 January 2004
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola.
22 April 1996
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice.
21 March 2024
Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.
31 December 2015
Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s grandfather is still in hospital.
14 March 2019
Denying his duty and in order to escape a crucial process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city.
14 June 2024
Fulfilling her work as a bailiff in Salvador, Íris delivers warrants and is often forced to execute orders that go directly against what she believes in.
10 May 2012
Rafa is a 13 years old kid concerned with his mother, held in a police station for driving without a license.
26 February 1993
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work.
04 April 2025
An intimate documentary exploring friendship, resilience, and love among a group of young people in Madrid.
30 June 2010
An homage to Pina Bausch.
01 May 2008
In a tightly framed slice of suburban Lisbon, young characters grapple with juvenile bravado and the unspoken tensions of masculinity, framed through Salaviza’s spare, observational lens.
01 May 2006
One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college.
