After Oedipus Rex, the SillySeason collective returns to Theatro Circo with the play Antigone to revisit Sophocles’ tragedy and question the discretionary power of the State and the fragility of the dreams of contemporary youth. Antigone, Polynices and Haemon appear as young people of today, sometimes forgotten, sometimes condemned by policies that exclude and silence … Continued
There are many artistic approaches, as many as there are creators and collectives, and this is a source of richness. The SillySeason collective invites us to ‘rethink’ a plural artistic practice, or, as they like to say, ‘many minds’. For a single creation, almost everything matters and almost everything is ‘rethought’ collectively, like a machine … Continued
Before the Revolution / Prima della rivoluzione by Bernardo Bertolucci 1964 | Italy | M12 | Drama | 1h52 Fabrizio is a 20-year-old from Parma, torn between his social background and a passionate and romantic adherence to Marxism. One day, his best friend Agostino dies, in what appears to be suicide, deepening the turmoil in … Continued
PARADISE: Does the Empire Still Live Here? Memories, marks and paths of decolonisation in Braga Traces of the colonial past are still evident in various ways in the city of Braga. Some are obvious, others are hidden in ways of being and behaving, their origins often forgotten by collective memory. Over the centuries, Braga became … Continued
Where is freedom? / Dov’è la libertà…? by Roberto Rossellini 1953 | Italy | M12 | Comedy, Drama | 1h31 In 1930, Salvatore (played by Totò), a barber by profession, commits murder out of jealousy. He is released 22 years later, in 1952, having lived through the rise and fall of fascism, the Second World … Continued
Lavagante (The Lobster) by Mário Barroso 2025 | Portugal | Drama | 1h32 A story of love and deception, set against a backdrop marked by the actions of the political police under the Salazar dictatorship, censorship, persecution and imprisonment, and the student revolt of the early 1960s. The last screenplay by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, adapted from … Continued
Umberto D. by Vittorino de Sica 1952 | Italy | M12 | 1h29 It was De Sica’s favourite film, Bazin considered it one of the greatest in the history of cinema, Chaplin cried when he saw it. Buñuel wrote that ‘it was one of the best films that neo-realism had produced’. The new Italian Christian … Continued
Fellini 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini 1963 | Italy, France | M12 | Drama | 2h18 Marcello Mastroianni, Fellini’s alter ego, plays Guido Anselmi, a director going through a crisis of inspiration. During a stay at a spa, all his ghosts appear to him, as if in dreams, mixed with the real people who frequent … Continued
Sirât by Oliver Laxe 2025 | Spain, France | M16 | 1h55 Laxe’s new film was an explosive moment at the last Cannes Film Festival, leaving viewers spellbound and winning the Jury Prize. Some spoke of a cocktail mixing Antonioni and Tarkovsky with Miller’s Mad Max and some of Friedkin’s cinema. Between mystery and nightmare, … Continued
Forever Young / Les Amandiers Valeria Bruni Tedeschi 2022 | France | Drama | M14 | 2h06 Paris, late 1980s. Stella, Victor, Adèle and Étienne, young actors in their twenties, have just been admitted to one of France’s most prestigious theatre schools, Les Amandiers, founded by Patrice Chéreau. These young people take their first steps … Continued
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