MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AND PORTUGUESE CINEMA

Date and time

13 Mar 2026 · 11:16

Venue

House of Cinema

Location

Porto

Type

Exhibition

This is the third and final part of a cycle of three exhibitions that began in 2023, aiming to place the director's personal archive, entirely deposited at Serralves, in dialogue with a cartography of contemporary Portuguese cinema. Organised chronologically, the first of these exhibitions, entitled For the Good of the Nation (1930 1970), focused on the Estado Novo regime and, having presented the filmmaker's archive in its entirety, constituted a first attempt to unarchive the extensive documentary collection he had assembled over more than eighty years of work. The second stage, Freedom! (1970 1990), focused on the period immediately before and after the Carnation Revolution, investigating from the perspective of anachronism, the way in which Oliveira placed himself “outside of time” in order to construct, in contrast to the rest of the film production of the time, a singular vision of the country, its history, and its political reality. Concluding the trilogy, this exhibition examines the twenty five years between 1990 and 2015, the year of his death, also completing the chronology of Portuguese cinema that forms the backdrop to this survey. In this final phase of his long caree