Short film screening & Conversation Goa: Between Stillness and Motion

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts invites you to Goa: Between Stillness and Motion, a screening of short films followed by a conversation with Inês Gonsalves and Catarina Portas.

Featuring three short films by Inês Gonsalves — Retratos, Praia de Miramar and Kadamba — the screening offers glimpses of Goa as observed at particular moments in time. The films revisit a Goa that has since changed, disappeared or been transformed, inviting us to reflect on the passage of time and the evolving landscapes of the region.

The programme is presented as part of the ongoing exhibition Still / Goa: A Place in its People, which brings together photography, reportage and cultural narratives. Drawing on Inês Gonsalves’s time spent in Goa, the exhibition documents the rhythms and textures of everyday life.

Still / Goa: A Place in its People has been made possible with the support of the Consulate General of Portugal in Goa, in collaboration with CLP Instituto Camões and Fundação Oriente – Delegation in India.

style="border-collapse: collapse; text-size-adjust: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> Inês Gonsalves is a photographer, filmmaker, and producer based between Lisbon and São Tomé and Príncipe. After studying photography at the Photographic Training Center in London, she worked extensively with newspapers and magazines before co-founding the production company No Land with Kiluanje Liberdade in 2005. Her practice spans photography, documentary cinema, and publishing, often engaging with histories, urban life, architecture, music, and postcolonial identities across Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Goa, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Lisbon, Paris, Madrid, Luanda, and Bayreuth. At the same time, her documentaries have screened at major festivals such as DocLisboa, Dok Leipzig, and Africa in the Picture.   Gonsalves is also the author and co-author of several notable publications, including Agora Luanda, Goa: História de um Encontro, and Moderno Tropical, the latter of which received the DAM Architectural Book Award in 2010.

Catarina Portas is a Portuguese journalist, writer, filmmaker, and cultural entrepreneur. Born in Lisbon in 1969, she has worked extensively across print, television, and publishing, writing on culture, society, heritage, and everyday life. Throughout her career, she has contributed to leading Portuguese newspapers and magazines and created several television programmes focused on culture and contemporary society. Portas is the author of Goa, History of an Encounter, a book that explores the complex historical and cultural connections between Portugal and Goa. Her longstanding interest in research, memory, and material culture has informed both her writing and her entrepreneurial ventures, including the acclaimed project A Vida Portuguesa, dedicated to preserving and promoting Portuguese artisanal and industrial heritage. Her work continues to bridge storytelling, cultural history, and the preservation of collective memory.