Masterclass Andrei Ujica · Programa conjunto Porto/Post/Doc 

27 nov 2025
Auditório Ilídio Pinho · 5 pm
Moderation Alice Leroy

School of Arts is once again partnering with Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival, hosting two masterclasses open to the public with prominent names in contemporary cinema. The sessions will take place on November 26 and 27, in the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium, at School of Arts.

On November 27, one of the most important European filmmakers, Romanian Andrei Ujica, who helped define political cinema in recent decades, will be at School of Arts for a masterclass where he will talk about his work.

Biographical note

Born in 1951 in Timisoara, Romania. With a background in literature, Ujica decides in 1990 to devote himself to cinema and creates Videograms of a Revolution (1992), co-directed with Harun Farocki, which becomes a landmark film on the relationship between political power and the media in Europe at the end of the Cold War. His second film, Out of the Present (1995), tells the story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who spent ten months aboard the space station Mir, while on earth, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Out of the Present has been compared to such emblematic titles in film history as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Solaris, and is famous for being one of the most recognized non-fictional films of the 90's. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (2010), widely regarded as a monumental achievement, concludes his trilogy dedicated to the end of communism. TWST | Things We Said Today (2024) is a time capsule and a cinematic poem of New York between August 13-15, 1965, framed by the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their first concert at Shea Stadium.