The Batalha Cinema was inaugurated in 1947. It is a building with modern and daring lines, recently renovated and now ready to welcome different kinds of events. The “foyers” are equipped with bars and a restaurant and it presents a cultural programme. The Batalha Cinema has also two auditoriums which have been welcoming concerts, films, congresses, lectures, conferences, courses and other kinds of events.
Clube Português de Cinematografia/ Cineclube do Porto
(Portuguese Cinematography Club – Porto Cineclub)
The Clube Português de Cinematografia (Portuguese Club for Cinema) | Cineclube do Porto (Porto Cineclub), is a non-profit institution of public utility founded in Porto on 13 April 1945.
It was the initiative of a group of students from the Alexandre Herculano High School, leaded by Hipólito Duarte, aiming at the spread of the different aspects of cinema as an art. They promoted private sessions, debates, lectures and text production. These initiatives were very well accepted by the Porto inhabitants from the beginning, hence the increase of the number of associates. The institution gathered personalities like Gonçalves Lavrador, Luís Neves Real, Henrique Alves Costa, Manuel Azevedo, Guilherme Ramos Pereira, among many others and this reflected in the club dynamics. The club’s undoubted organization capacity and quality placed it in the vanguard of the cineclub movement.
The Clube Português de Cinematografia – Cineclube do Porto has become a reference institution, not only for the rights of the cinema audience, but also for the unconditional defence of freedom of speech as a whole.
The “old” cineclub is presently completing its 61st anniversary and still keeps his former aspirations. It counts on the willpower of its associates that intend to keep raising high the “flame” of the cineclub movement.
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