It's an outdoors cycle of national cinema promoted by the confederation center for theater research and the musical group of Miragaia.
At a time when is been discussed the future of the Douro, due to construction of the dam of the Tua, it makes sense to show some of the stories of the river in the form of films. They are different approaches, different filmmakers, over the last half of the twentieth century. A retrospective that demonstrates the importance of this waterway, as the world's human heritage of UNESCO. According to Miguel Ramos, a member of the organization, "the River Douro rises in Spain in the province of Soria, in the peaks of the Sierra Urbião, at 2080 meters of altitude and crosses the north of Portugal until its end, climbing 927km. Looks around, goodbye to Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, and turns into the Atlantic. Right there at its root, the river may be as the man who navigates, who once dreamed of being the largest, the wider, reach further and felt the need to return to the sea. And from sweet child of the water, with the margins to compress it, sees itself free, open its arms and starts to live salty. " To open hostilities on the 14ht of July, two works by Adriano Nazareth show his very personal view of the river Douro, in the late fifties, with the films "a river which was won" and "Rebelos boats.". "En una poignée de mes amies," on July the 21st, the established duo, Manoel de Oliveira and Jean Rouch, show a visual anthropology of a river very important to the national economy. Finally on the 28th of this month, "the hours of the Douro" by Joana Pontes, close this cycle of films on various forms of unrest that this issue caused in the filmmakers, because "We are memory, and without "hestória (s) to tell about the Douro there will not be a history, or stories. It would be a river, unambitious of becoming the sea" as poetically concludes, Miguel Ramos.
