

Word and Utopia + Porto of My Childhood
Word and Utopia (2000)
Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
With Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Silveira, Renato De Carmine, Diogo Dória, Paulo Matos, António Reis, Canto e Castro.
60min, DCP
In Portuguese with English subtitles
This 2000 biography depicts Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who worked to improve the treatment of Brazilian indigenous populations and abolish slavery.
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Porto of My Childhood (2001)
Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
With Jorge Trêpa, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros, Manoel de Oliveira, José Wallenstein, Rogério Samora, Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Agustina Bessa-Luís.
61min, DCP
In Portuguese with English subtitles
Oliveira narrates this autobiographical work comprising staged dramatic scenes from the filmmaker’s childhood in Porto.
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