What can a portrait photograph reveal about a political system? What can a picture taken 35 years ago tell us about our contemporary society? Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), this documentary aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime sought to sustain its existence throughout 48 years.

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Three characters in a medieval castle that walk trough the space, a reflection about images takes place. From the simple act of pressing a button to take a photo, to the meaning of representation, the characters flow into an object between fixation and movement, between matter and representation.

Impending Doom is a superb visual testimony and sonic interpretation of two funeral ceremonies that took place in Rome, that of Pope John Paul II, and in Lisbon, that of the communist leader Álvaro Cunhal, in 2005. Regardless of differing beliefs and ideologies, two communities share the feelings of pain, peace and magic in a world at war.

Based on the epistemologies of the South, Boaventura de Sousa Santos will examine six forms of colonialism in Europe, and six possible paths to decolonisation. Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.

The story of a man who sees his life changing radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. A portrait of the advance of his neurological condition that begins to affect not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him. During the progression of the illness he is taken care of by his daughter Teresa, who tries to fill in for the memory loss and the progressive alienation and senility, accompanying him through the inconclusive medical exams and experimental medication in the hope of finding a way to help her father.

There is some attachment to identity and there's a fear that the identity one day will be finished, and that this will be the end of you. You think that you're alive only when Consciousness is functioning, but you are not alive in the cognitive state only.

The theory of reality tunnels explained by Robert Anton Wilson, with lots of examples.