Portugal Now - Screening of "Amor Fati" by Cláudia Varejão

Amor Fati seeks out parts that complete each other. These are portraits of couples, friends, families and pets and their owners. They share the intimacy of daily life, habits, beliefs, tastes and even some physical traits. From their faces, from the choreography of their gestures, we unveil the story that binds them. Drawn from everyday life, right before our eyes the film portrays a chorus of affection and the collective memory of a country, evoking Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium: Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night to be in one another’s company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one?

Cláudia Varejão in conversation (online)

Cláudia Varejão (1980) Studied at the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foun- dation, in partnership with…