Film In Focus: Fire of Wind + Marta Mateus Q&ACert-TBC

Directed by Marta Mateus | Portugal | 2024 | 1h 14m | Portuguese w/ English subtitles | Starring Safir Eizner, Maria Clara Madeira, José Moura, Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata

On their way home from harvesting grapes, a group of workers cross paths with a dangerous runaway bull. Forced to take refuge in the trees of the vineyard, they wait through the night, sharing stories and memories as darkness falls. Their words carry the weight of history, evoking the lasting trauma of António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship and the turmoil that followed. Nominated for Best Film at the Locarno International Film Festival, Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus’ striking feature debut is a poetic and symbol-rich meditation on memory, resistance, and collective experience.

Join us for this special preview screening presented by The Cultural Programme in parternship with The Ultimate Picture Palace, featuring an exclusive in-person Q&A with director Marta Mateus. 

About Film in Focus
The Film in Focus series, presented by the Cultural Programme at Oxford University in partnership with the Ultimate Picture Palace and curated with Dr C.W. Winter, who has brought together this extraordinary partnership and conversation.

The Film in Focus series will showcase some of the finest art house films from last year’s Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Locarno film festivals. Many screenings will feature post-film Q&As with the filmmakers, offering audiences a unique and exciting opportunity to engage with the artists behind the works. The series connects the Cultural Programme at Oxford University with new audiences and partners as the programme prepares for its new home in the Schwarzman Centre in 2025.

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We showed Film In Focus: Fire of Wind + Marta Mateus Q&A between June 11, 2025 and June 11, 2025.

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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!