João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Malamor / Tainted Love
Cinema Cycle
Tickets

11 September – 15 October Other Sessions

Lisboa – Cinemateca Portuguesa Biennial 2025 cinema

Cinemateca Portuguesa © Bruno Simão

Malamor / Tainted Love is the name of a film cycle that brings together BoCA, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Filmoteca Española in a collaboration dedicated to cinema as an affective, political, unclassifiable territory. João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata are the latest to join Cinemateca Portuguesa’s “Guest Directors” series with a carte blanche in the form of a mirror: a selection of their own films in dialogue with works by other directors that span decades, geographies and cinematic genres.

Inspired by both the song Tainted Love and Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s neologism “malamar”, this cycle — comprising around 60 films spread over 25 screenings — offers a vertiginous itinerary through desire and disenchantment, love and its reverse. From António Giménez-Rico to Almodóvar, John Waters to Fassbinder, and from Lucio Fulci to Tsai Ming-Liang and Derek Jarman to Jean-Luc Godard, the selection reveals a radical and at times disconcerting love for film, where the pleasure of discovery overrides the conformity of the canon.

The cycle runs simultaneously in both Lisbon and Madrid through September and October, and includes two brand new works: the world premiere of the short film “13 Alfinetes”, commissioned by BoCA and shot between Lisbon and Madrid, and the film installation “Sem Antes Nem Depois”, on show at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.

Filmoteca Española © Raimundo Pérez-Messina

Cinemateca Portuguesa
Full program available HERE.

Filmoteca Española
Full program available HERE.

Sessions

11.09 – 15.10.25

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisboa

13.09 – 23.10.25

Filmoteca Española, Madrid

Curatorship
João Pedro Rodrigues Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata
Programming and production
Cinemateca Portuguesa (Lisbon), Filmoteca Española (Madrid)
Partnerhip
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisboa)
Obs.
Lisbon, Cinemateca Portuguesa: €3.20 (general admission) / €2.15 (M/65, students) / €1.35 (film students, unemployed)

Madrid, Filmoteca Española: €3 (general admission) / €2 (university students, unemployed, M/65)

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27 – 28 September

theatre, dance

Museo Nacional del Prado

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Words and gestures: for a performative collection at Museo del Prado

“Words and Gestures” is a cycle that invites four theater artists - Tiago Rodrigues (PT) with Sofia Dias& Vítor Roriz (PT), Patrícia Portela (PT), Angélica Liddell (ES) and Rodrigo García (AR/ES) - to write and direct creations inspired by works from the Prado Museum’s collection.