🎬 Cinema’s First Epics in Focus
🗓 May 16 to 26
📍 Polytechnic Institute of Porto’s Cultural Center (next to Marquês metro station)

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 5 (May 26, 3:00 PM) — Presented by JOÃO PAULO GUIMARÃES

Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, 1925, 143 min)