Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILMS: ** **“Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen,” 1969, Dir. João César Monteiro, 19 Mins, The Cinema Guild, Portugal** *In Portuguese with English subtitles.* In “Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen,” his inaugural work, Monteiro films the renowned Portuguese poet at work, with her family, at sea, and at home, creating a tender, delicate portrait that, in his own words, “represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed…and this uncompromising shame makes it, I believe, poetic, in spite of it.” FORMAT: DCP ** SNOW WHITE, 2000, Dir. João César Monteiro, 75 Mins, The Cinema Guild, Portugal** *In Portuguese with English subtitles. * Monteiro’s sardonicism and provocations were a constant throughout his career, often when the director appeared in his own films via his subversive alter-egos. Yet his biggest provocation was to shoot an adaptation of Robert Walser’s anti–fairy tale SNOW WHITE with, according to legend, his overcoat covering the camera lens. The result is both a humble acceptance of the artist’s limits in his attempt to fully materialize the scope of his artistic vision and, at the same time, an invitation to the audience to fill the blackness of this radical experiment with hope, light, and the fear that emanates from hearing a voice telling a tale in the intimacy of a dark room. FORMAT: DCP