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Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival 20-30nov 2021

As we return to the cinemas in downtown Porto, we return with a deepened desire to share, on the one hand, a rich and varied programme of films across the four regular Competition sections and the thematic programme and, on the other, a desire to inhabit the cinema space together again.
The Frum do Real and Call to Action will also return to create a public space of discussion and reflection where the local community and the guests of the festival can come together to debate key creative, social and political concerns.

Our programme this year is a resolute attempt to align the festival with the concerns that drive global discussions around the climate crisis, with our thematic programme being at the heart of this.
Entitled Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, it is a programme that simply could not be postponed beyond 2021.
The programme was conceived during the pandemic in between (digital) conversations between myself and the indigenous leader and writer Ailton Krenak.
Counting on his generosity, we brought together ideas, themes and films, between Porto and the Krenak reserve (from where Ailton cannot leave in order to protect his community).
In this reality, like so many others, I was shut up at home in Porto with Ailton in the middle of the Amazon, dreaming of a face-to-face meeting at the festival.
We moved forward at the pace that the pandemic allowed, with no certainty of what a physical, collective edition of the festival might look like.

We are delighted, then, to be able to welcome audiences for in person events once again, and in addition to our usual festival venues (Rivoli, Passos Manuel, Planetrio and Casa Comum), we will welcome two new ones: a recently reopened neighbourhood cinema, Sala Estdio Perptuo, with a focus on new Portuguese documentary and School Trip screenings, and the AGEAS Coliseum for the closing night with the Video installation and musical performance As Filhas do Fogo by Pedro Costa and the Msicos do Tejo.

Music will also accompany our opening night with the screening of Leit

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