The Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle returns with the new 2024/2025 season, bringing monthly sessions in film club format to explore the legacies and memories of decolonization. The initiative runs parallel to the exhibition Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonizing the Imaginary. Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: Myths and Realitiesat the National Museum of Ethnology until November 2, 2025.
Having already held a first session at 9 November, the next sessions will take place from February to June 2025always at Saturdays at 10 a.m.. All screenings will take place in ISEG Auditorium 2With the exception of the screening on April 5, 2025, which will take place in the Auditorium of the National Museum of Ethnology (Avenida da Ilha da Madeira, 1400-203 Lisbon). Each screening will be attended by artists involved in the making of the films, as well as researchers and moderators appointed by the CESA.
About the Cycle of Cinema and Decolonization
There is an urgent need to understand decolonization as a process that is still underway, which must be accepted and integrated into social, political, cultural and personal dynamics. The project aims to create an open and dynamic space for sharing, where memories, narratives, dialogues and reflections can emerge. It is coordinated by researcher Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) and curated by Mozambican researcher and director Isabel Noronha (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) and the filmmaker Camilo de Sousa.
Coordination: Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa)
Curator: Isabel Noronha (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) and filmmaker Camilo de Sousa
Scientific advice: Isabel Castro Henriques (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa), Joana Pereira Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) and Ana Mafalda Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa)
Collaboration: Luca Fazzini and João Moreira Silva
Support: CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa
