A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal through the voice of its President and Director Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira Born at a coffee shop table in the Invicta Porto City with a subsidy of 15 contos 75EUR since 1981 it hasnt stopped bringing us cinema and given its weight and peculiarity The project developed and soon became a reality with the screening of several sessions a day the realization of retrospectives and also in parallel the promotion of concerts and art exhibitions It is considered the biggest film festival in Portugal and internationally recognized as one of the most important worldwide and is now entering its 40th edition