João Salaviza
João Salaviza (Portuguese: João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; born 19 February 1984; Lisbon) 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.
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. In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.
Fotos
Filme (29)

The French Teacher
2026 · Co-Producer

To Our Friends
2025 · Producer

The Messenger
2024 · Editor

The Buriti Flower
2024 · Story, Editor, Director, Producer

Ketwajê
2023 · Producer

The Dead and the Others
2019 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Russa
2018 · Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Elon Doesn't Believe in Death
2017 · Screenplay

High Cities of Bone
2017 · Editor, Director, Writer

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
2016 · Self

Am Ende der Kindheit
2015 · Director, Writer, Editor

Cerro Negro
2012 · Director, Editor, Writer

Rafa
2012 · Director, Screenplay, Editor

A Portuguese Film
2011 · Himself

Strokkur
2011 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Editor

Casa Na Comporta
2011 · Writer, Director

Hotel Müller
2010 · Director, Writer, Editor

Arena
2009 · Director, Screenplay, Editor

Die Eigenheiten einer jungen Blondine
2009 · Assistant Editor
Dedicated To The One I Love
2008 · Editor

The Summer of Rita M.
2006 · Editor

Two People
2004 · Director
Lumiar
2004 · Assistant Director

Querença
2004 · Zé Manel

When It Thunders
2000 · Gaspar as a Child
Da Invicta ao Sonoro
1997

L'Enfant du secret
1996

La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
1996

Poor George
1993 · Nuno - Jorge's Nephew


