Between 29 June and 3 July, the eighth edition of the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema took place. In a special edition organised in partnership with the XVI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture and the Lisbon Consortium, the programme was held for the first time at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. Dedicated to the theme Disobedience, the Summer School brought together international artists, curators, filmmakers and researchers to reflect on disobedience as an artistic and cultural practice through a programme of seminars, lectures, exhibitions and film screenings.

One of the central moments of this edition was the presentation of Disobedience Archive (The Agitational Billboard), curated by Marco Scotini, with an exhibition display conceived by Ângela Ferreira and curatorial assistance by Alessia Riva, at the Fundação Amélia de Mello Gallery at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Initiated by Marco Scotini in 2005, Disobedience Archive is an ever-evolving video archive dedicated to the relationship between artistic practice and political action. Its presentation in Lisbon brought together eighteen works organised around the thematic sections Gender Disobedience and Insurgent Communities and Colonialism, featuring works by artists and filmmakers including Ege Berensel, Seba Calfuqueo, Simone Cangelosi, Marcelo Expósito & Nuria Vila, Ali Essafi, Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, Ruy Guerra, Sara Jordenö, Sarah Maldoror, Angela Melitopoulos, Carlos Motta, Sana Na N'Hada, Pinar Ogrenci, Daniela Ortiz, Güliz Sağlam, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Sim Chi Yin and Mohanad Yaqubi.

Ângela Ferreira's intervention reinterpreted the historical figure of the agitational billboard as an exhibition device, proposing a space for the circulation of dissenting voices, memories of resistance and alternative narratives. The exhibition opening was preceded by a conversation between the artist and Marco Scotini, moderated by Nuno Crespo, Dean of the School of Arts, which launched the Summer School's public programme with a reflection on the role of art and the archive in shaping forms of resistance and social transformation.

Throughout the week, the public programme expanded the Summer School's discussions across different venues in the city. At the Cinemateca Portuguesa, two screening sessions explored the relationships between cinema, activism and disobedience: Gender Disobedience, featuring Corpo Fechado – The Devil's Work (2018) by Carlos Motta and Kiki (2016) by Sara Jordenö; and Diaspora Activism, with Adventures in Mozambique and the Portuguese Tendency To Forget (2016) by Ângela Ferreira and R21 aka Restoring Solidarity (2022) by Mohanad Yaqubi. The programme concluded at Culturgest with a screening of The Natural History of Destruction (2022) by Sergei Loznitsa, followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Isabel Capeloa Gil, offering a reflection on memory, violence and historical representation.

Throughout the Summer School, speakers including Ana Longoni, Ângela Ferreira, Ato Quayson, Gabrielle Civil, Marco Scotini, Markus Messling, Sergei Loznitsa, Sumathi Ramaswamy and Tânia Ganito contributed to an interdisciplinary discussion on disobedience as a form of critique, emancipation and knowledge production. The different sessions addressed topics such as artistic activism, civil disobedience, decolonial practices, everyday resistance and the contestation of dominant systems of power, highlighting the role of the arts and cinema as privileged spaces for imagining new forms of collective action. The 2026 edition thus established itself as a meeting point for research, artistic creation and public debate, reinforcing the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema's commitment to critical reflection on contemporary challenges and to building an international programme at the intersection of art, cinema and thought.