Lutaram como Diabos: Barcelos na Grande Guerra (28′)
Directed by Carlos Araújo
Screenplay by Manuel Penteado Neiva
Produced by Alberto Serra
2017

This documentary features the almost 600 soldiers that set off from Barcelos (integrated into what got called the Minho Brigade – which is also referenced) for the different theatres of war. Life in the trenches strung out across the lands of Flanders had room only for survival. Life and death coexisted side by side and nobody could foresee which would prevail. Barcelos had its heroes. On their chests, they displayed the medals of war and in their bodies the wounds of a war like no other. Hundreds experienced the full hardships of war: hunger, humiliations, abuses they never expected to endure. Dozens fell on the field of battle. With this documentary, Barcelos pays honour to the memory of its heroes.

À Porta da História – Jaime Cortesão (30′)
Directed by Jorge Paixão da Costa
2014

The life of Jaime Cortesão proved a continuous struggle for liberty. From the academic strike of 1907 through to the election campaign of Humberto Delgado in 1958, and incorporating the Oporto rebellion against the Military Dictatorship, in as early as 1927, and exile in France and Brazil along the way, his constant political intervention was accompanied by a brilliant intellectual path that established him as one of the great Portuguese historians of his generation. A leading collaborator to Renascença Portuguesa and later to Seara Nova, he left behind fundamental studies on the Portuguese Era of Discovery. A voluntary medical officer in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, his Memories of the Great War are an important surviving eye witness account of that conflict.

In four sessions, the Images of the Great War cinema cycle revisits a painful memory: the beginning of conflict in the African colonies, the departure of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps for Flanders, the first filmed reports capturing the reality for the thousands of Portuguese youth mobilised for battle and constituting a documented account of the experiences of recruitment, training, deployment to the front, the tragedy of life in the trenches, the traumas of confinement and return.

Maximum 2 tickets per person.

Related events:

The Miracle of Tancos, Portugal in World War I, by Fernando Rosas
Mon, 3 July, 2017 – 19:00

A Arte de ir à Guerra Mundial, by José Carlos Oliveira
Wed, 5 July, 2017 – 19:00

João Ratão, by Jorge Brum do Canto
Thu, 6 July, 2017 – 19:00