Doclisboa2026 - Riscos | Life of Jorge Luis Borges
Cinema 5€
Sunday 18 October · 10:30
Mariano Llinás's monumental 324-minute biography of Jorge Luis Borges draws on an exhaustive analysis of the documents, books and places of a writer who lived as a hidden, clandestine warrior whose cause was literature — its Portuguese premiere at Doclisboa.
Synopsis Screenings 18 OCT / 10.30, São Jorge, Sala 3 with two 20-minute intervals Life of Jorge Luis Borges Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges Mariano Llinás • 2026 • Argentina • 324' • DCP Portuguese Premiere A biography of Jorge Luis Borges based on an exhaustive analysis of the documents he left behind, the books he read and the places he passed through. An attempt to decipher a very peculiar life: that of someone who lived as a hidden, clandestine warrior, whose cause was literature, understood as kingdom and landscape. Starting from a library, Borges set out to elevate and enlarge the territories of his tribe: the people for whom the most important things in the universe are books, plots and words. This film is dedicated to that secret pilgrim (to quote Le Carré, the king of all spies). Prices General - 5€ Reduced mobility - 5€