Every year, from July to September, the courtyard of Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista opens to offer artistic creations of diverse expressions and origins. Gaivotas no Pátio has sought to reaffirm itself as an access to presentation opportunity as a means of reducing under-representation in the performing arts.
In 2025, creations by women will be presented.
The idea is to give space to women creators in their exact role. The program includes creations by women, from the 19th century to the present day, free women and censored women, who create music, performance and cinema.
There is also the constant presence, in every edition, of the section In the Land of Cinema, curated by Os Filhos de Lumière.
No País do Cinema is an open-air film series on the theme of "Night at the Movies".
Curated by the Sons of Lumière, it brings together a series of films that allow us to reflect on and imagine, through cinema, the night, the unknown, the fears that the dark provokes, dreams, the feelings that are hidden or revealed, starting with the relationship we have or wish to have with our bodies, with others and with the world.
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Naked childhood (L'enfance nue)
François, a ten-year-old boy, has been handed over to an orphanage by his mother, who is unwilling to give up permanent custody. His destructive behavior precipitates his move from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple.
The film marks the manifesto of the author's cinema, demanding a "discovery" of reality.
By Maurice Pialat
France, 1968
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 83 min.
Simone Barbes ou la vertu (Simone Barbes or virtue)
A minimalist work that favors the idle moments, the waiting periods, the little things that are part of life and its inherent contradictions, because, as the film so well reveals...
By Marie-Claude Treilhou
France, 1980
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 77 min.
Under strange skies
"When I walk among the graves in the Jewish cemetery in Lisbon, I recognize the names engraved in stone, as if I were in a village cemetery. During the Second World War, Lisbon was a passageway between Europe and the Americas for many refugees. Of the 50,000 to 200,000 people who passed through Lisbon at that time, only fifty stayed here. Among them were my grandparents."
By Daniel Blaufuks
Portugal, 2002
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 52 min.
The break
The city of Naples is ruled by the Camorra mafia organization. This group imprisons the young Salvatore in a large closed building, ordering him to keep an eye on the impetuous Veronica. Despite the mysterious nature of their imprisonment, the two young people quickly become accomplices and decide to explore their vast prison together.
By Leonardo Di Constanzo
Italy, Switzerland, 2012
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 90 min.
I promise myself in the courtyard
Alice Azevedo presents her solo production "Prometo-me no Pátio", a combination of Gothic, philosophical, tragic and even POP references, hot-stapled together in a patchwork quilt.
The play, still under construction, is inspired by "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus", the novel that created the greatest monster in the history of science fiction at the hands of a young medical student, Victor Frankenstein.
Created and performed by Alice Azevedo
Age rating: to be classified by the ECC
Duration: 60 min.
Crivo - Strings by Fanny Mendelssohn and Florence Price
We'll get to know the work of two absolutely remarkable composers: Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847), a German composer and a leading figure in 19th century romantic music, and Florence Price (1887-1953), the first black woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra in the United States of America.
The program includes Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet, Florence Price's String Quartet and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", the song with origins in African-American spirituals, in a version written by Price.
With Camerata Atlântica
violin Ana Beatriz Manzanilla
violin Francisca Fins
viola Pedro Saglimbeni Munéz
cello Fernando Costa (cello)
Commentator musicologist Inês Thomas Almeida
Age rating: M/6
Duration: 60 min.
Finished events
Fallen leaves
Two lonely people meet by chance in the Helsinki nightlife and try to find the first, only and last love of their lives. But the path to that goal is full of obstacles: alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other's names; and the general tendency of life to create obstacles in the path of those who seek happiness.
By Aki Kaurismaki
Finland, Germany, 2023
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/14
Duration: 81 min.
Money horse
While the young captains make revolution in the streets, the people of Fontaínhas are looking for their Ventura, who got lost in the woods.
By Pedro Costa
Portugal, 2014
Portuguese subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 103 min.
Fragile as the world
Vera and João are two young people who love each other but have time against them. Their desire to be together forces them, in a kind of childish game, to run away from their friends, from home, from people and from the world. Isolated in a forest, they get away from everything.
They make a pact never to be separated, "for the world". With each other, for each other, they are capable of anything. But one day Vera weakens and falls ill. If he can't leave her "for the world", he can't help but want to ask for help. His unshakeable faith in their love is about to break.
By Rita Azevedo Gomes
English subtitles
Age rating: M/12
Duration: 90 min.
Naked childhood (L'enfance nue)
Simone Barbes ou la vertu (Simone Barbes or virtue)
Under strange skies
The break
I promise myself in the courtyard
Crivo - Strings by Fanny Mendelssohn and Florence Price
Fragile as the world
Money horse
Fallen leaves