Film cycle / Unforgettable films

The aim of the activity is to encourage reflection and debate on the plurality of readings, meanings and truths that cinema brings to the general public. Each session will be attended by an invited personality from the most diverse areas of Portuguese life and culture, who will choose and comment on a film that they consider to have a special perspective, either because of the richness of its synthesis of the journeys of human existence, or because of its inherent aesthetic quality, or because of the relationship between Literature and Cinema.

Synopsis: The last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life in a portrait that aims to be rigorous and which does not shy away from cruelty and suffering. From the Last Supper to the crucifixion, a realistic account of the suffering of Jesus and His Mother, inspired by Caravaggio, who was also accused by his contemporaries of excessive ‘realism’ in his representations of the Gospel.

Programme:

9.00 pm - Conversation with the guest

Guest personality: Archbishop José Manuel Garcia Cordeiro

(Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga)

Moderator: Sérgio Guimarães de Sousa

(Scientific Coordinator of Casa de Camilo – Museum. Studies Centre)

9.30 pm - Screening of the film: The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson.

Bookings can be made by telephone (252 309 750) or email (geral@camilocastelobranco.org), and the room has a capacity of 140 seats.

Tickets must be collected by 8.45pm on March 28th.

Guest personality: D. José Manuel Garcia Cordeiro

D. José Manuel Garcia Cordeiro was born on May 29th 1967 in Vila Nova de Seles (Angola).

Coming to Parada, Alfândega da Fé, Portugal, with his family in 1975, he attended the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Bragança-Miranda; admitted to the Major Seminary, he followed his philosophical-theological studies at the Porto headquarters of the Portuguese Catholic University. After his philosophical-theological studies, he was ordained to the priesthood on June 16th 1991.

From 1991 to 1999 he was a parish priest, a formator at the Diocesan Seminary of Bragança and chaplain at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.

From 1999 to 2001 he attended the Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm in Rome, obtaining a Licentiate in Liturgy. In 2004 he obtained his doctorate in Liturgy at the Athenaeum of St Anselm in Rome.

From 2001 to 2005 he was Vice-Rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome, and from 2005 to 2011 he was Rector of the same Pontifical College.

From 2004 to 2011 he was a professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm in Rome.

On July 18th 2011 he was appointed Bishop of Bragança-Miranda, receiving his Episcopal Ordination on October 2nd 2011.

Since 2016 he has been a member of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

Within the Portuguese Bishops' Conference, he is President of the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and Spirituality and since 2018 he has been a Delegate to the International Eucharistic Congresses; from 2017 to 2023 he was a member of the Permanent Council.

On December 3rd 2021 he was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga. José Cordeiro took office on February 12th 2022. On February 13th, the Solemn Eucharist marking the beginning of his Pastoral Ministry was celebrated.