João Salaviza Movies

An homage to Pina Bausch.

Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him...

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....

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

The Mentuwajê Guardians of Culture (a group of young Krahô filmmakers) invite the Beture Collective...

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,...

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

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the...

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...

Denying his duty and in order to escape a crucial process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city. Far from his people and culture,...

Graça, a lesbian woman living in Belo Horizonte with her French girlfriend Clara, gives private French lessons to support herself in a large...

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...

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...

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...