Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 7pm

Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa — Auditório Lagoa Henriques

(Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa)

Public encounter dedicated to the Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Intervenção, held in Estoril in 1976. Conceived in the wake of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, the Mostra’s nine day-long program appears to have been shaped by solidarity networks connecting films and filmmakers from the Global South and North. By putting anti-colonial and anti-fascist struggles in relation to workers’ and feminist movements, the festival articulated cinema’s potential for the intervention into political, territorial, and social divides.

The encounter is part of a workshop initiating a collective research project on the Mostra’s resonances today, with contributions by Ana Algarra Navarro, Catarina Boieiro, Nabil Djedouani, Philip Widmann, Raquel Schefer, Stefanie Baumann, Volker Pantenburg, among others. This public session is an invitation to join the workshop participants’ conversation on various aspects of the Mostra for a common reflection on the legacies and futures of cinema as a form of intervention.

Organised by Doc’s Kingdom and Philip Widmann (University of Zurich). Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the research project «Paranational Cinema – Legacies and Practices», as well as the Graduate Campus at the University of Zurich.