“How does contemporary Portuguese cinema represent nature? What motifs from the natural world animate Portuguese films released since 2000? What narrative, conceptual and aesthetic forces does our recent cinema find in this independent, continuous and simultaneous manifestation of life, that is, of its physical phenomena and beings?” These were the questions that motivated Filipa Rosário and José Duarte to organize the book “Um Olhar Português – cinema e natureza no século XXI” (A Portuguese Look – cinema and nature in the 21st century), which takes a panoramic look at more than forty films made by Portuguese filmmakers in the 21st century, thus proposing a mapping of very recent Portuguese cinema in the light of the idea of (physical) nature as a function of culture.

” Filipa Rosário will be at CineEco to present the book on October 15 at 5pm at the Seia Municipal Library.