The School of Arts will once again participate in Doclisboa 2025, one of Portugal's most important film festivals dedicated to the documentary genre.

This participation is part of a strategic collaboration with Arché – Espaço de Pensamento e Desenvolvimento Criativo (Arché – Space for Thought and Creative Development), renewing a partnership that has been supporting the creation and development of new film projects. The SoA will once again award the Prize School of Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Special Jury Prize for Best Arché Project in the Writing or Development Phase, worth €2,500.

As part of the program, the festival will also feature filmmaker Ross McElwee, an international guest who will come to Portugal to present “Remake,” his first film in 14 years. After his appearance at DocLisboa, Ross McElwee will be at School to conduct a masterclass. +info

Also at this 23rd edition of Doclisboa, the film “O Fantasma da Virgem”, by Patricia Pereyra, a doctoral student at School of Arts, was selected for the Green Years section, a production made as the final project of our Master's in Cinema.

The film takes us to Santo Stefano, Bologna, where there is a group of churches that, before becoming Christian, were pagan temples dedicated to Isis. In Porto, there is a student who, while restoring a virgin, imagines her origins, intertwining the visible and the invisible, science and essence. Does an object exist if it has no matter?

On October 26, at 3:30 p.m., Culturgest will also host a conversation with Pedro Pinho, one of the founders of the Terratreme production company and director of award-winning films such as Bab Sebta (2008) and A Fábrica de Nada (2017), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. His films have been screened at various festivals and theaters around the world. The session will be led by Daniel Ribas, Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Cinema at School of Arts, in Portuguese, with free admission.

More information about the festival on the official DocLisboa website.