João Salaviza Movies

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...

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo...

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and...

Fulfilling her work as a bailiff in Salvador, Íris delivers warrants and is often forced to execute orders that go directly against what she...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

An intimate documentary exploring friendship, resilience, and love among a group of young people in Madrid. Through a cinéma...

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...

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...

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

Casa Na Comporta is one of four films commissioned to different directors for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

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...

Rafa is a 13 years old kid concerned with his mother, held in a police station for driving without a license. The director shows a day in the life...

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...

An homage to Pina Bausch.

Russa returns to Bairro do Aleixo, in Oporto, visiting her sister and friends with whom she celebrates her son's birthday. In this short encounter,...

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....

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...