abcDoc at Doclisboa has been consolidating itself year in year out, creating spaces to discuss and build a more critical and open society, featuring documentary film as the point of contact between the audience and the world surrounding them. One conceives of reality through new cinematic forms of perception, reflection and action, engaging cinema in a dialogue with its history so as to question its present moment.

More and more committed to promote education through cinema, abcDoc at Doclisboa offers activities for children, youths and seniors, with a primary focus on school children. The programme we put forward, comprising film screenings, debates and workshops, is meant to relate the audience to this cinema and the emerging issues in history and contemporaneity. The debates following the screenings make room for those worlds to communicate, with cinema acting as an intermediary. The workshops establish a space for reflexion, resorting to visual and technical activities with the participants on cinematic matters and filmmaking.

We believe that cinema plays a major role in getting the spectator in touch with other worlds and perspectives, and that it in this way contributes to build a more empathic society, a more critical and better informed citizenship, and a more tolerant and sustainable world.