Filmaporto presents Serenata a Três at Batalha, with films by João Pedro Amorim, Olivier Cheval and Yohei Yamakado

Filmaporto returns to Batalha Centro de Cinema with Serenata a Três, in which cinema, friendship and artistic exchange bring together João Pedro Amorim, Olivier Cheval and Yohei Yamakado in the same screening, on Friday 13 March, at 7.15pm.

Presented by the three directors, the screening offers a direct dialogue with the audience, drawing on creative processes, geographical journeys and affinities nurtured over time. In Nature’s Spite, by João Pedro Amorim, is an inter-species tragicomedy that traces the arc of nature’s resistance to human domination. From a dream of filming a poem of revenge against a flower, to the cycles of creativity, exploitation and rebirth that structure the world, the film questions the very idea of “nature”, dismantling facile romanticisations and exposing persistent tensions.

In Letters to My Friend Yohei Yakamodo From His Homeland, Olivier Cheval draws inspiration from the absence of his friend, who hasn’t been back to Japan for eight years, to film, in 16 mm, a journey to his motherland. The result is a diary in the form of letters, an intimate gesture that revisits places, memories and emotions, using cinema as a means of overcoming distance and building a living archive of a friendship.

Yohei Yamakodo’s own Autumn Clothes follows a woman who, on visiting a friend at her studio in a seaside town, comes across the book Autumn Clothes, by Japanese author Higuchi Ichiyō, and begins reading it aloud. Reading becomes a delicate device for articulating literature, landscape and intimacy, building an atmosphere of suspense and careful listening.

Admission is free, subject to ticket collection on the day, limited to two tickets per person.