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Conversas com Cinema© é uma das várias vertentes de programação da PROSA.
Na PROSA desenvolvemos experiências educativas através do poder transformador das artes visuais e narrativas. E, portanto, o Cinema não poderia ficar de fora!
No Conversas com Cinema© mostramos desde filmes clássicos até lançamentos, mas aqueles que são menos programados ou esquecidos.
A cada duas semanas lançamos um Ciclo novo e, pasmem: quem é membro da PROSA tem sempre entrada gratuita! Já os bilhetes para o público em geral custam sempre 3€ por filme, por pessoa.
Fazemos a exibição dos filmes em pixel iluminado (ecrã QLED 65’’) e em sala condicionada ao máximo de 24 espectadores. Acreditamos que a mensagem escrita com luz não pode falhar na recepção, junto do espectador.
Mas, mais do que mostrar filmes: queremos que este seja um grupo aberto para a comunidade. Naturalmente, após os filmes, tem surgido espontaneamente conversas muito interessantes. A PROSA também está aberta para receber as vossas ideias e sugestões acerca dos filmes que gostariam de ver aqui.
A ideia dos Conversas com Cinema© também passa por empoderar a comunidade através da contemplação e análise de filmes: tanto através da compreensão da mensagem cinematográfica como da reflexão acerca desta narrativa.
Melhor ainda se pudermos ter esta aprendizagem em conta quando temos que tratar dos nossos próprios conflitos humanos!
Vá, vamos abrir o jogo: queremos que o cinema seja uma forma de terapia - "cinema as therapy".
Contamos convosco neste caminho?
Nota: Nos eventos para o público infanto-juvenil, estes devem estar sempre acompanhados de um responsável legal.
Imagem: "BLUE", de Apitchapong Weerasethakul.
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Conversas com Cinema© is one of the various programming aspects of PROSA.
At PROSA, we develop educational experiences through the transformative power of visual and narrative arts. And therefore, Cinema could not be left out!
In Conversas com Cinema© Cinema Screenings at PROSA, we show everything from classic films to new releases, but those that are less scheduled or forgotten.
Every two weeks we launch a new Cycle and, amazingly: anyone who is a member of Prosa always has free entry! Tickets for the general public always cost €3 per film, per person.
We show the films on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) and in a room with a maximum of 24 spectators. We believe that a message written with light cannot fail to be received by the viewer.
But, more than showing films: we want this to be an open group for the community. Naturally, after the films, very interesting conversations have arisen spontaneously. PROSA is also open to receiving your ideas and suggestions about the films you would like to see here.
The idea of the PROSA cinema screenings also involves empowering the community through the contemplation and analysis of films: both through understanding the cinematic message and reflecting on this narrative.
Even better if we can take this learning into account when we have to deal with our own human conflicts!
Come on, let's open the game: we want cinema to be a form of therapy - "cinema as therapy".
Are we counting on you on this path?
Note: At events for children and young people, they must always be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Image: "BLUE", by Apitchapong Weerasethakul.
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“IDA” 2013 | 1h22’ [PL\DK] | OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings
Prosa Plataforma Cultural, R. Alves Torgo 8, Lisboa, PT## Ciclo OUTRA FÉ
[OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Alexandre Braga)“IDA” 2013 | M/12 | 1h22’ [PL\DK]
De Pawel PawlikowskiSexta Dia 29/05 às 19h30 [Friday 05/29 at 7:30pm]
Na Polónia dos anos 1960, uma jovem noviça descobre que é judia e parte com a sua tia numa viagem para descobrir o destino da família durante o Holocausto. O percurso torna-se uma busca silenciosa por identidade e fé.
In 1960s Poland, a novice nun discovers she is Jewish and travels with her aunt to uncover the fate of her family during the Holocaust. The journey becomes a quiet search for identity and faith.Spoken in Polish | Subtitled in English
Mais info e reservas:
More info and reservations:
https://prosacultural.org/cinema/outrafeOTHER FAITH begins with an ancient yet ever-renewed question: what happens when religious language ceases to be merely an inherited tradition and once again becomes an inner experience? For centuries, the symbols of faith were conceived as instruments of transformation — images, gestures and narratives meant to provoke an intimate shift within the human being. Yet when these symbols harden into external structures — institutions, doctrines, inherited narratives that precede us — a risk emerges: religious storytelling may cease to be a path of revelation and instead become a script that speaks in our place.
This cycle brings together two remarkable films that explore precisely this fracture — the moment when institutional faith no longer coincides with lived truth.
In Ida (2013), by Paweł Pawlikowski, a young novice in 1960s Poland discovers, just before taking her vows, that she belongs to a Jewish family scarred by the Holocaust. The journey she undertakes with her aunt is not merely historical or familial — it is a spiritual crossing in which inherited religious identity confronts the raw complexity of the world. The film’s austere and contemplative style places faith before what no doctrine can fully contain: the truth of history, of the body, and of memory.
In First Reformed (2017), by Paul Schrader, a Protestant pastor enters a profound spiritual crisis as he confronts the ecological devastation of the contemporary world and the moral complacency of religious institutions. The diary he keeps — echoing Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest, and even resonating with the solitary introspection of Taxi Driver, which Schrader himself wrote — becomes a laboratory of the soul, where faith is tested against despair, responsibility and action. Here, belief is no longer obedience to a structure but a passage through a dark interior night where religion may either redeem or destroy.
Between these two films emerges a fragile and necessary territory: the space where religious narratives cease to function as unquestioned authority and return to their original condition — questions.
Perhaps this is precisely where another faith begins: not a faith imposed from the outside, but one that must pass through the filter of individual consciousness. A faith that does not replace us or speak in our stead, but compels us to confront the most intimate ground of our own truth.Narratives — religious or otherwise — always carry this ambivalent power: they can illuminate the inner path, or they can become systems that colonize it.
The essential question therefore remains the same one that haunts both cinema and philosophy: how can we inhabit a narrative without ceasing to inhabit ourselves?
These two films may suggest a possible answer: not abandoning the symbolic language of faith, but rediscovering it through lived experience — where every gesture, every doubt and every silence once again belongs to the subject who lives it.(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga)
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!
2 attendees - €3.00
![“FIRST REFORMED” 2017 | 1h53’ [US\UK\AU] | OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/3/e/1/highres_534381473.jpeg)
“FIRST REFORMED” 2017 | 1h53’ [US\UK\AU] | OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings
Prosa Plataforma Cultural, R. Alves Torgo 8, Lisboa, PT## Ciclo OUTRA FÉ
[OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Alexandre Braga)“FIRST REFORMED” 2017 | M/16 | 1h53’ [US\UK\AU] (No Coração da Escuridão - PT)
De Paul Schrader
Sábado Dia 30/05 às 19h30 [Saturday 05/30 at 7:30pm]
Um pastor protestante atormentado pela culpa e pela doença conhece um ativista ambiental em desespero. O encontro desencadeia uma crise espiritual onde fé, responsabilidade e desespero contemporâneo colidem.
A Protestant minister burdened by guilt and illness meets a despairing environmental activist. Their encounter triggers a spiritual crisis where faith, responsibility, and modern despair collide.Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese
Mais info e reservas:
More info and reservations:
https://prosacultural.org/cinema/outrafeOTHER FAITH begins with an ancient yet ever-renewed question: what happens when religious language ceases to be merely an inherited tradition and once again becomes an inner experience? For centuries, the symbols of faith were conceived as instruments of transformation — images, gestures and narratives meant to provoke an intimate shift within the human being. Yet when these symbols harden into external structures — institutions, doctrines, inherited narratives that precede us — a risk emerges: religious storytelling may cease to be a path of revelation and instead become a script that speaks in our place.
This cycle brings together two remarkable films that explore precisely this fracture — the moment when institutional faith no longer coincides with lived truth.
In Ida (2013), by Paweł Pawlikowski, a young novice in 1960s Poland discovers, just before taking her vows, that she belongs to a Jewish family scarred by the Holocaust. The journey she undertakes with her aunt is not merely historical or familial — it is a spiritual crossing in which inherited religious identity confronts the raw complexity of the world. The film’s austere and contemplative style places faith before what no doctrine can fully contain: the truth of history, of the body, and of memory.
In First Reformed (2017), by Paul Schrader, a Protestant pastor enters a profound spiritual crisis as he confronts the ecological devastation of the contemporary world and the moral complacency of religious institutions. The diary he keeps — echoing Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest, and even resonating with the solitary introspection of Taxi Driver, which Schrader himself wrote — becomes a laboratory of the soul, where faith is tested against despair, responsibility and action. Here, belief is no longer obedience to a structure but a passage through a dark interior night where religion may either redeem or destroy.
Between these two films emerges a fragile and necessary territory: the space where religious narratives cease to function as unquestioned authority and return to their original condition — questions.
Perhaps this is precisely where another faith begins: not a faith imposed from the outside, but one that must pass through the filter of individual consciousness. A faith that does not replace us or speak in our stead, but compels us to confront the most intimate ground of our own truth.Narratives — religious or otherwise — always carry this ambivalent power: they can illuminate the inner path, or they can become systems that colonize it.
The essential question therefore remains the same one that haunts both cinema and philosophy: how can we inhabit a narrative without ceasing to inhabit ourselves?
These two films may suggest a possible answer: not abandoning the symbolic language of faith, but rediscovering it through lived experience — where every gesture, every doubt and every silence once again belongs to the subject who lives it.(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga)
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!
2 attendees
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