João Salaviza

Portuguese film director

Film director
Screenwriter
Film editor
Film producer
Actor

Years active1992–present

João Salaviza (born João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; 19 February 1984) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard.

Biography

João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.

Filmography

Short films

Duas Pessoas (2004)
Arena (2009)
Casa Na Comporta (2010)
Hotel Müller (2010)
Cerro Negro (2012)
Rafa (2012)
Russa (2018)

Documentary

STROKKUR (2011)
High Cities of Bone (2017)

Films

Montanha (2015)
The Dead and the Others (2018)
The Buriti Flower (2023)

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Arena". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
^ "Prizes of the International Short Film Jury". Berlinale.de. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 19 February 2012.

External links

João Salaviza at IMDb

Short Film Golden Bear Winners

1950s

Paris la nuit – Jacques Baratier and Jean Valère (1956)
Gente lontana – Unknown (1957)
La lunga raccolta – Lionetto Fabbri (1958)
Prijs de zee – Herman van der Horst (1959)

1960s

Le songe des chevaux sauvages – Denys Colomb de Daunant (1960)
Gesicht von der Stange? – Raimund Ruehl (1961)
De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel – Jan Vrijman (1962)
Bowspelement – Charles Huguenot van der Linden (1963)
Kirdi – Max Lersch (1964)
Yeats Country – Patrick Carey (1965)
Knud – Jørgen Roos (1966)
Through the Eyes of a Painter – M.F. Hussain (1967)
Portrait: Orson Welles – François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif (1968)
To See or Not to See – Bretislav Pojar (1969)

1970s

1501 1/2 – Paul B. Price (1971)
Flyaway – Robin Lehman (1972)
Colter's Hell – Robin Lehman (1973)
History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills (1974)
See – Robin Lehman (1975)
Horu - munakata shiko no sekai – Takeo Yanagawa (1976)
Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße – Hedda Rinneberg and Hans Sachs (1977)
Co jsme udelali slepicím – Vladimír Jiránek and Josef Hekrdle (1978)
Ubu – Geoff Dunbar (1979)

1980s

Hlavy – Petr Sís (1980)
History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills (1981)
Loutka, prítel cloveka – Ivan Renc (1982)
Moznosti dialogu – Jan Svankmajer (1983)
Cykelsymfonien – Åke Sandgren (1984)
Nr. 1 - Aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste – Helke Sander (1985)
Tom Goes to the Bar – Dean Parisot (1986)
Curriculum vitae – Pavel Koutský (1987)
Oblast – Zdravko Barisic (1988)
Pas à deux – Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk (1989)

1990s

Mistertao – Bruno Bozzetto (1990)
Six Point Nine – Dan Bootzin (1991)
Bolero – Ivan Maksimov (1993)
Hamu– Ferenc Cakó (1994)
Repete– Michaela Pavlátová (1995)
Pribitie poezda– Andrei Zhelezniakov (1996)
Senaste Nytt – Per Carleson (1997)
Ik beweeg, dus ik besta – Gerrit van Dijk (1998)
Faraon / Maski – Sergei Ovcharov/ Piotr Karwas (1999)

2000s

Hommage à Alfred Lepetit – Jean Rousselot (2000)
Âme noire - Black Soul – Martine Chartrand (2001)
Bridget's Daughter – Charles Olivier(2002)
(A)Torzija – Stefan Arsenijevic (2003)
Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea – Cristi Puiu (2004)
Milk – Peter Mackie Burns (2005)
Aldrig som första gången! – Jonas Odell (2006)
Raak – Hanro Smitsman (2007)
O zi buna de plaja – Bogdan Mustata(2008)
Please Say Something – David O'Reilly (2009)

2010s

Händelse vid bank – Ruben Östlund (2010)
Night Fishing – Chan-kyong Park and Chan-wook Park (2011)
Rafa – João Salaviza (2012)
La fugue – Jean-Bernard Marlin (2013)
Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe – Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (2014)
Ho-san-na – Young-kil Na (2015)
Balada de um Batráquio – Leonor Teles (2016)
An Odd Turn (2024)

v t e Short Film Palme d'Or winners
1950s	White Mane – Albert Lamorisse (1953) Blinkity Blank – Norman McLaren (1955) The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse (1956) Courte Histoire – Ion Popescu-Gopo (1957) N.Y., N.Y. – Francis Thompson (1959) Zmiana warty – Halina Bielinska and Włodzimierz Haupe (1959)
1960s	La Petite cuillère – Carlos Vilardebo (1961) La Rivière du hibou – Robert Enrico (1961) À fleur d'eau – Alexander J. Seiler and Rob Gnant (1963) Le Haricot – Edmond Séchan (1963) La douceur du village – François Reichenbach (1964) The Price of Victory – Nobuko Shibuya (1964) Nyitany – János Vadász (1965) Skaterdater – Noel Black (1966) Sky Over Holland – John Fernhout (1967) Cîntecele Renasterii – Mirel Iliesiu (1969)
1970s	Magic Machines – Bob Curtis (1970) Le Fusil à lunette – Jean Chapot (1972) Balablok – Bretislav Pojar (1973) Ostrov – Fyodor Khitruk, Edouard Nazarov and Vladimir Zouïkov (1974) Lautrec – Geoff Dunbar (1975) Metamorphosis – Barry Greenwald (1976) The Struggle – Marcell Jankovics (1977) Rowing Across the Atlantic – Jean-François Laguionie (1978) Harpya – Raoul Servais (1979)
1980s	Seaside Woman – Oscar Grillo (1980) Moto perpetuo – Béla Vajda (1981) Merlin ou le cours de l'or – Arthur Joffé (1982) Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose – Pierre Levy (1983) Le Cheval de fer – Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie (1984) Chiri – David Takaichvili (1984) Jenitba – Slav Bakalov and Rumen Petkov (1985) An Exercise in Discipline - Peel – Jane Campion (1986) Palisade – Laurie McInnes (1987) Vykrutasy – Garry Bardin (1988) 50 ans – Gilles Carle (1989)
1990s	The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson (1990) Z podniesionymi rekami – Mitko Panov (1991) Omnibus – Sam Karmann (1992) Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California – Jim Jarmusch (1993) El héroe– Carlos Carrera (1994) Gagarin– Alexij Kharitidi (1995) Szél– Marcell Iványi (1996) ...Is It the Design on the Wrapper? – Tessa Sheridan (1997) L'Interview – Xavier Giannoli (1998) When the Day Breaks – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (1999)
2000s	Anino – Raymond Red (2000) Bean Cake – David Greenspan (2001) Esö után – Péter Mészáros (2002) Cracker Bag – Glendyn Ivin (2003) Trafic – Cătălin Mitulescu (2004) Podorozhni – Igor Strembitsky (2005) Sniffer – Bobbie Peers (2006) Ver Llover – Elisa Miller (2007) Megatron – Marian Crisan (2008) Arena – João Salaviza (2009)
2010s	Barking Island – Serge Avédikian (2010) Cross – Maryna Vroda (2011) Sessiz-Be Deng – Rezan Yeşilbaş (2012) Safe – Byoung-gon Moon (2013) Leidi – Simón Mesa Soto (2014) Waves '98 – Ely Dagher (2015) Timecode – Juanjo Giménez (2016) A Gentle Night - Qiu Yang (2017) All These Creatures – Charles Williams (2018) The Distance Between Us and the Sky – Vasilis Kekatos (2019)
2020s	I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face – Sameh Alaa (2020) All the Crows in the World – Tang Yi (2021) The Water Murmurs – Jianying Chen (2022) 27 – Flóra Anna Buda (2023)