In her latest book, researcher Maria do Carmo Piçarra analyses the cinematographic representations of "Portuguese Asia'' made during Estado Novo. The Luso-Tropicalist rhetoric propagandised the importance of an already decadent empire. During the dictatorship, the eastern colonies maintained a symbolic value above all. In connection with the launch of this book,  PPD, in partnership with FILMar project, presents a session that includes one of the first films shot in Macau, filmed in 1923, and two others by Miguel Spiguel, a Turkish director who settled in Portugal after the Second World War. Spiguel has made dozens of documentaries and current affairs films, particularly in Mozambique and the Asian colonies of India, Macau and Timor. Os Pescadores de Amangau/Macau – made for the series "Portugal, Além da Europa" – shows various aspects of the Amangau fishing centre and the daily lives of its workers. Sentinelas do Mar, on the other hand, is clearly a propaganda film, defending the historical and strategic importance of the territories of "Portuguese India'', in particular the need for their military defence. It should be noted that after India's independence from the United Kingdom, Portugal lost control of the enclaves of Dadrá and Nagar Haveli in 1954, concluding in 1961 with the annexation of Goa and the end of the Portuguese occupation of those territories.