Through interlocking stories that cross centuries, classes and lifestyles, the film links her story to those of several other of the island’s women, all of whose frustrated passions played out in well-appointed manor houses set along magnificent, ocean-swept landscapes. The story revolves around a young woman who searches for the true story of a distant ancestor, a noblewoman, who shocked society when she first moved to the island of Madeira. The cast includes Ana Moreira, Rogério Samora, Ricardo Aibéo, Marcello Urgeghe, Virgilio Castelo, Rita Blanco and Margarida Vila-Nova. Today, February 10, ‘A Corte Do Norte/The Northern Land’ directed by João Botelho will be screened. All three films are in Portuguese and will have English subtitles. Three films will be screened, ‘A Corte Do Norte/The Northern Land’, ‘O Princípio Da Incerteza / The Uncertainty Principle’ and ‘O Espelho Mágico / The Magic Mirror’. In view of the ongoing exhibition, Camões-CLP will host the screening of the films adapted from the written works of Agustina Bessa-Luís every Friday of this month, from 4 pm onwards. Awarded the Delfim Guimarães Prize and the Eça de Queirós Prize, Agustina became an essential reference of Portuguese literature (from essay to biography, from drama to chronicle, from travelogues to youth literature) building a powerfully original world view, integrating intuition and rationalism into a kind of wisdom capable of capturing the essence of its time. She presented herself as a fictionist at the age of 26, in the year 1948, with the novel ‘Mundo Fechado’, which came to be widely known with the prophetic title A Sibila (1954). It includes 22 panels profusely illustrated with photographs that reflect the ambience of Agustina Bessa-Luís, as excerpts from her works, which include references from films based on her novels.Īgustina Bessa-Luís was born in Vila Meã, Amarante, on October 15, 1922. The exhibition is open to the public at the premises of Camões Portuguese Language Centre in Panjim till February 24. In context of the Birth Centenary Commemoration of the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, the Consulate General of Portugal in Goa, Camões – Centro de Língua Portuguesa in Panjim and the Program of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies of the Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature of the University of Goa, are organising the exhibition ‘Agustina Bessa-Luís: Vida e Obra’, conceived by the writer Inês Pedrosa and the director João Botelho, in a partnership between the Municipality of Póvoa de Varzim and Camões.

A Sibila by Agustina Bessa-Luís