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Ongoing: 277 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Afternoon 1 event
The Stranger | 27th French Film Festival

16:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

François Ozon adapts Albert Camus's celebrated novel: in Algiers, 1938, Meursault, a young clerk with a routine life and a distant attitude, is led by a tragic turn of events into a situation that will radically transform his life.

Evening 8 events
Nights of the Rescue of Being

18:00 Eco Retiro de Galamares Sintra

Party

A party night with Noites de Resgate do Ser at the Eco Retiro de Galamares on 5 October 2026.

The Plague | 27th French Film Festival

19:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, Sarah Arnold's black comedy thriller follows an explosive gendarme and a psychologist in crisis who reopen the investigation into the disappearance of a farmer in north-eastern France, in a delirious ride that evokes the Coen brothers.

FORWARD IS NOT THE ONLY WAY | OCP

20:00 São Luiz Teatro Municipal Lisbon

6€ Live music

A concert exploring the idea that progress is not linear, presented by OCP.

I Will Get Up and Bite a Fig ~ Mondays at z

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

Other

A performance imagining a laboratory where altruism is biological law and every body serves a system of function and repetition, presented on Mondays at z.

The Unknown Woman | 27th French Film Festival

21:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Oscar winner Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall) adapts his own graphic novel into a radical thriller starring Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider, in which a photographer who follows a woman at a party wakes up in her body, beginning a vertiginous crossing between identities.

João Melgueira ~ at Pensão Amor

21:30 Pensão Amor Lisbon

Free 18+ DJ set

João Melgueira plays a DJ set at Pensão Amor on Rua Nova do Carvalho in Lisbon's Cais do Sodré.

Farewell, Cruel World | 27th French Film Festival

21:45 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

The closing film of the 65th Critics' Week at Cannes, Félix de Givry's film starts from the bullying suffered by Otto, a 14-year-old teenager, and a suicide attempt, transforming them into a surreal, tender and luminous tale with echoes of the Nouvelle Vague.

MONGOLIAN HEART LIVE IN PORTUGAL

23:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

Live music

Mongolian Heart, a band from Nepal, performs live in Portugal, bringing their sound of folk, pop, and slow rock.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 277 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music 25€

Saturday 14 November · 18:30

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Teatro Camões Parque das Nações · Lisbon

The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Swensen, performs key works of French modernism alongside a Portuguese voice, featuring Debussy's La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and Ravel's Pavane, in a concert mapping the creative effervescence of early modernism.

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What if, in a single program, one could map the creative effervescence of early modernism, its boundary-breaking, its interartistic dialogues, and its relentless search for a new musical language? The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Joseph Swensen, presents key works of French modernism centered around a Portuguese voice shaped by the same currents. Opening the concert, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), a landmark in music history born from Mallarmé's symbolist poetry. By dissolving the boundaries between rhythms, harmony and orchestral color, this work introduced a new conception of musical time, in which atmosphere supersedes argument and the sinuous theme of the flute drifts adrift, like consciousness itself. Luís de Freitas Branco's Violin Concerto (1916), here performed by Carlos Damas (soloist of the work's Parisian premiere), constitutes a singular achievement in Portuguese music. Based on modal exploration and cyclical forms closer to César Franck than to Impressionism, it reveals a composer navigating between the heritage of the past and an unmistakably personal harmonic voice, decades ahead of its wider recognition. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), a meditation on a Renaissance court dance, brings stillness and luminous orchestral restraint to the program. Closing the evening, Debussy's ambitious La mer (1905): three symphonic sketches in which the sea becomes an inexhaustible source of color, movement and emotional depth; a work in infinite renewal, like the tides it evokes. Four works, three composers, but a shared conviction: that music, when free from convention, becomes something close to nature itself.

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E se, num único programa, se pudesse mapear a efervescência criativa do modernismo inicial, o seu galgar de limites, os seus diálogos interartísticos e a sua busca incansável por uma nova linguagem musical? A Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, sob a batuta de Joseph Swensen, apresenta obras-chave do modernismo francês em torno de uma voz portuguesa moldada pelas mesmas correntes. A abrir o concerto, o Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894) de Debussy, um marco da história da música gerado a partir da poesia simbolista de Mallarmé. Ao dissolver as fronteiras entre ritmos, harmonia e cor orquestral, esta obra introduziu uma nova conceção de tempo musical, na qual a atmosfera suplanta o argumento e o tema sinuoso da flauta flutua à deriva, como a própria consciência. O Concerto para violino e orquestra (1916) de Luís de Freitas Branco, aqui interpretado por Carlos Damas (solista da estreia parisiense da obra), constitui um feito singular na música portuguesa. Baseando-se na exploração modal e de formas cíclicas mais próximas de César Franck do que do Impressionismo, revela um compositor a navegar entre a herança do passado e uma voz harmónica inequivocamente pessoal, décadas à frente do seu reconhecimento mais amplo. A Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) de Ravel, uma meditação sobre uma dança de corte renascentista, traz quietude e luminosa contenção orquestral ao programa. A fechar o serão, o ambicioso La mer (1905) de Debussy: três esquissos sinfónicos nos quais o mar se converte em fonte inesgotável de cor, movimento e profundidade emocional; uma obra em infinita renovação, como as marés que evoca. Quatro obras, três compositores, mas uma convicção partilhada: a de que a música, quando livre de convenções, se torna algo próximo da própria natureza.

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