The new year
I believe in laughter and tears as antidotes to hatred and terror. Good films constitute an international language, responding to humanity’s need for joy, compassion, and understanding. They are a means of dissipating the wave of anguish and fear that pervades the world today… If we could at least exchange films between nations, in large […]
Line” art installations
10 OCT to 30 NOV | Casa Municipal da Cultura and Largo da Câmara Municipal Over the years, the artist has developed a growing interest in the idea of using waste materials, which are dispensed with or have lost their original usefulness, as the main raw material. Clo Bourgard has the opportunity to add elements […]
Video Art” exhibition
Visual works that explore environmental themes with more or less poetic approaches, projected onto loops produced in digital, video or film format. These creations go beyond the limits of traditional cinema, taking on a language of their own at the crossroads between contemporary art and cinema.In 2024 this special session was created, presented in gallery […]
Plastic bitch” exhibition
10 OCT to 30 NOV | Foyer of the Auditorium of the Municipal House of Culture Plastic Bitch is the mirror of the current situation – unbridled consumerism, extreme pollution, depletion of natural resources, excessive waste production – the uncomfortable mirror in which we see reflected what we, as a society, have become: plastic bitches.
The state of water” exhibition
Estado da Água presents six artistic proposals, developed in the village of Sabugueiro and the surrounding area of Serra da Estrela, as part of a program of artistic residencies carried out with financial support from DGArtes. The focus of the project is the interpretation of the presence of water in the landscape from approaches that […]
Nuclear power now!
Music from Portuguese cinema
Túlio Augusto and Maria Isabel Mendonça present a concert with musical works that marked a period in Portuguese cinema. Maria Isabel has collaborated with various artistic structures as a creator and performer in the fields of music and theater. She has created and directed various cultural shows. She finds in the music of oral tradition […]
Presentation of the book “Memories”
Amândio Silva was born in Lisbon, but his strong connection to Seia and CineEco has always been marked by his regular presence at the festival over the years.His book Memórias is, according to Heloisa Paulo, “an autobiography made up of documents and accounts that paint a picture of the life of the man who, after […]
Looking for the star
Xoel, a sound technician, arrives in the Serra da Estrela to record the sounds that are about to disappear from the highest peak in mainland Portugal. As the days go by, he discovers that tourism has silenced the signs of the past, making his quest absurd. Until a mysterious melody draws him to the top […]
From afar, every mountain is blue
Indigenist Fernando Schiavini revisits the places and villages he visited in the 1970s, a time when little was known about “deep Brazil”. The history of Brazilian indigenism told by those who lived it and helped write it through the language of solidarity.