João Canijo (born 1957) is a
Portuguese film director
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. His film ''
Get a Life'' was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
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The section presents 20 films with unusua ...
section at the
2001 Cannes Film Festival
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.
His 2011 film ''
Blood of My Blood'' was selected as the Portuguese entry for the
Best Foreign Language Oscar at the
85th Academy Awards
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, but it did not make the final shortlist.
His 2023 film ''
Bad Living'' won the
Silver Bear Jury Prize at the
73rd Berlin International Film Festival
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Before his directorial debut, Canijo worked as assistant director for
Wim Wenders
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in
''The State of Things'' (1982) and for
Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter (7 April 1945 – 12 April 2010) was a cinema of Germany, German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work ...
in ' (1986).
Filmography
* Três Menos Eu (1988)
* Lovely Child/ Filha da Mãe (1989)
* Alentejo Sem Lei (1990)
* Black Shoes/ Sapatos Pretos (1998)
*
Get a Life/ Ganhar a Vida (2001)
*
In the Darkness of the Night/ Noite Escura (2004)
* Misbegotten/ Mal Nascida (2008)
* Lusitanian Illusion (2010)
*
Blood of My Blood/Sangue do Meu Sangue (2011)
* ''
É o Amor (Obrigação)''
* ''
Bad Living'' (2023)
* ''
Living Bad'' (2023)
See also
*
Jorge Ferreira Chaves
References
External links
*
1957 births
Living people
Portuguese film directors
People from Porto
Portuguese people of Brazilian descent
Mass media people from Lisbon
University of Porto alumni
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