Film Screening of Amadeo (2023)

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts is delighted to present the screening of the Portuguese film Amadeo (2023) on 11 March 2O25 at 6.45pm in partnership with Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.

The film is part of the on-going XIII Lusophone Film Festival 2025 organised by Consulado Geral de Portugal em Goa and Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.

Directed by: Vicente Alves do Ó
Language: Portuguese with subtitles in English
Duration: 98 minutes

Synopsis 
Amadeo is a biopic of the Portuguese artist, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and tells the story of this mysteriously restless and unrelenting man, an artist out of definition, whose paintings often questioned the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. Amadeo’s avant-garde work was often overlooked during his lifetime.

The film is a visual and emotional journey that celebrates the soul of art, and recreates three significant moments in the artist’s life - the first major modernist exhibition in Portugal, organised by the young artist in 1916, which revealed a new world to an old and conservative country; the presentation of the first works to Paris’s artistic elite in 1911; and the fateful year of 1918, when he succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic that killed millions of people