Over the course of two weeks, we’ll celebrate some of the earliest epic and proto-epic films in cinema history — works that elevated the art of filmmaking to the scale of myth and collective memory long before the advent of sound!

📽️ Introductions with commentary and special guests
🎟 Free entry (limited seating — arrive early!)

🎓 An initiative promoted by the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature, in collaboration with ESMAD-IPP and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto’s Cultural Center.


Session 3 (May 21, 10:00 AM) — Presented by JOSÉ ALBERTO PINHEIRO

Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916, 163 min)