A meeting place for book lovers and cinephiles, making available a vast and continually growing archive of documents about cinema and moving image. The space contains a reading room, with books and magazines freely available for reading, as well as two screening points for viewing films from the Film Library.
Our collection brings together publications from all eras relating to different fields of cinema. It also features complementary works from related disciplines, such as the social and human sciences, curating, and the visual arts. In the Library it is also possible to consult more than a dozen periodical publications from various countries.
Schedule
Tuesday to Saturday: 11.00am–7.00pm
Contact
batalha.biblioteca@agoraporto.pt
Consultation of works can only be conducted in person. Home borrowing is not permitted.
Highlights
Dedicated to the film heritage of Porto, the Film Library aims to collect and preserve cinematographic works related to the practice of film in Porto.
The catalogue includes films across fiction, animation and documentary, as well as a range of other audiovisual recordings and formats: television programmes and series, music videos, advertisements, amateur and family cinema, school projects and experimental works.
Highlights
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
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