Screening of the documentary «Le Portugal D'Outremer, Dans Le Monde D'Aujourd'Hui» (1971) by Jean Leduc, followed by the talk, Vento Leste: ruptures with the films of the Dictatorship, by Maria do Carmo Piçarra and a Q&A with the audience. 

This is a covert propaganda film, with the participation of Marcello Caetano, which shows all the Portuguese colonies of the time.
This presentation is part of the 25th April Commemorations and aims to link the film with the research carried out by Maria do Carmo Piçarra for her latest book, Vento Leste.

Bio note

Maria do Carmo Piçarra is a contract researcher at ICNOVA/FCSH and assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon. With a grant (2018-2020) from the Fundação Oriente, she researched “Representations of 'Portuguese Asia' in Film Archives”. She has a degree, master's and doctorate in Communication Sciences from FCSH-UNL and, between 2013-2018, carried out post-doctoral research on “’Cinema Empire’. Portugal, France and England, representations of empire in cinema”. She is a film programmer and has published, among other books and articles in scientific journals, “Projectar a ordem. Cinema do Povo e propaganda salazarista 1935 – 1954” (2020), “Azuis ultramarinos. Propaganda colonial e censura no cinema do Estado Novo” (2015) and “Salazar vai ao cinema I e II” (2006, 2011). With Jorge António, she co-ordinated the trilogy “Angola, o nascimento de uma nação” (2013, 2014, 2015) and, with Teresa Castro, (Re)Imagining African Independence. Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire (2017).