Films by Luísa Sequeira Screened at Cinemateca Portuguesa as Part of “The Pioneers of Portuguese-Language Cinema” Programme

Filmmaker Luísa Sequeira, who also teaches in ESAP’s Cinema and Audiovisual programme, will have two of her works screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa on 29 May as part of the programme “The Pioneers of Portuguese-Language Cinema.”

The initiative celebrates Bárbara Virgínia, the first woman to direct a sound feature film in Portugal, while also marking the 80th anniversary of the screening of Três Dias sem Deus at the first edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The programme includes two screening sessions and the launch of a new book-and-DVD edition of this landmark work of Portuguese cinema.

Within this context, Who is Bárbara Virgínia? (2017) and The Pioneers of Portuguese-Language Cinema (2023), both produced by Um Segundo Filmes and directed by Luísa Sequeira, will be screened. The films form part of a broader effort to research, preserve and promote the history of women in cinema, contributing to the recovery of figures and trajectories that have often been overlooked in film historiography.