Noémia Delgado is the most important director of Portugal’s New Cinema generation, and the fact that she only made one film for cinema (she would later do several works for television in the 1980s) says a lot about the lack of space that women had in accessing the profession. An editor of various key films of this period (Mudar de Vida, by Paulo Rocha, O Passado e O Presente, by Manoel de Oliveira), Delgado trained with Jean Rouch, becoming one of the pioneers of visual anthropology in our country. Máscaras describes the transmontanan rituals associated with the solstice and the initiation of boys, the title referring to the ‘caretos’ used in the festivities of the Winter Cycle.

This screening will feature the presence of Manuela Penafria, a professor and researcher from the University of Beira Interior.