João Canijo Movies

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

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...

This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed...

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. She...

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...

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.

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...

In Caxinas, the relationship between the woman and the fisherman is founded on trust, born of their mutual and complete dependence, which is vital...

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. Men...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

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. The houses,...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the...