The best João Canijo’s movies

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

My Wedding Day follows a morning in the life of three women. One for whom marriage presents itself as a norm to be conformed with, another who is preparing to leave her childhood home and meet the marriage and another fighting for the survival of her innocence in these and many other norms. And of course, the guests are at the same time participants and witnesses of all this normality. It is seemingly a story about nothing and nothing more than the simple morning of a wedding. Mine. Director's Statement: Man tamed by society becomes a stranger to himself. In a process with no possible escape where "we have to confuse ourselves with others" (Nietzsche). Like a gear that swallows us. And a gear that swallows humans can never function properly.