Rita Blanco

Follows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an “old and irresolvable conflict,” with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.

3 wins, 2 nominations.Read More »

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In this comic political farce, the protagonist thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House! Surrounded by female supporters, she proclaims’I am the President of the U.S.A., I can do whatever I want.’ She locks her mother in the basement and on her birthday, throws a huge party in honor of her re-election, while making plans to control the entire world. …The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States ( A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA )Read More »

“TIFF” wrote:
Magnificently acted and orchestrated, João Canijo’s family saga, Blood of my Blood, depicts the harshness of life in inner city Lisbon and the sacrifices that two women are willing to make for their family. Marcia is determined to end the cycle of poverty for her family and when she discovers that her daughter is dating an older professor, she will stop at nothing to end this unwelcome relationship.Read More »

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A bitter-sweet sentimental comedy. The friendship between two girls. Marie is Swiss, Filipa is a Portuguese origin. One is an eternal student. The other is getting married. After Marie’s love affair breaks up, Filipa suggests they spend a month together in Portugal in her family. A place full of peace as well as personal and cultural conflicts, happiness as well as grief, and chance encounters. A time in their lives when they have to make a choice. Sometimes it makes them giddy.Read More »

João Canijo latest movie adapts a Greek tragedy “Ifigénia en Aulis” to a provincial Portuguese family that has to deal with the Russian Mafia after a deal went wrong. In a place where everything is bought and sold even the youngest daughter may have to be offered for prostitution to make up for a deal that went terribly wrong. “Noite Escura” deals with the emotions of a small family that runs a provincial whorehouse, having to sell their youngest in order to survive.Read More »

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The bitch is called Maria and she is a sweet child. She has no father and does not like her mother. She has a boyfriend who is a bandit who would like to change his class.

There are two more bandits: a very tall singer and a guy from Oporto who is a very short and a full of life’s experiences. Neither of these two do much thinking, one even less than the other.Read More »

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It all begins when an average family (slightly chilly because they’re forced to take their vacation out of season) is struck by good fortune.
Jesus the couple’s young son, finds a hidden and forbidden treasure in the sands of a deserted beach: the wealth of the hearth.
The same day, and not so far away, two priests decide to close the doors to their church due to lack of a congregation, and auction off the images of their beloved saints.
Between the wealth of the heavens and the spirit of matter they embark on an adventure. A banker with auditory hallucinations when he talks about money.Read More »