PortuguêsTrailer
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal receives some guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A tyrannical mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the limit of their cycles of acceptance. Screened at the 2023 Berlinale.
João Canijo
Born in Portugal, he began his career as an assistant director for Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders and Werner Schroeter. His debut feature film Três Menos Eu premiered at the 1988 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Since then, he has made over ten feature films which have regularly screened at Cannes, Venice and Toronto. His work has been honoured with retrospectives in cities including Busan, La Rochelle and Buenos Aires.
