Altar, dir. Rita Azevedo Gomes, Portugal 2003, 75 mins, Portuguese with English subtitles
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Widowed actor René lives in purposeful isolation, drifting between phone conversations and memories that refuse to settle, as fragments of a distant past resurface.
The screening will be preceded by an introduction from Benjamin Crais.
The screening will be preceded by an introduction from Benjamin Crais.
Benjamin Crais is a scholar, critic, and film programmer. He is on the editorial board of the film magazine Narrow Margin, a quarterly magazine of film criticism.
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Sun, 10 May 2026
Cinema 1
06:00 pm
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Cinema 1
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