Passages

Join us at the Minghella Cinema at the University of Reading for an exclusive screening of the award-winning film Passages by Prof. Lucia Nagib. This captivating 96-minute essay-documentary will be followed by an engaging Q&A session with our special guest, Dr Tiago de Luca from the University of Warwick.

Dive deeper into the making of this remarkable film and explore the rich tapestry of Brazilian culture. After the screening and discussion, we invite you to continue the conversation over pizza and drinks at the Green Room.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to enjoy a thought-provoking film and lively discussion in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. We look forward to seeing you there!

PASSAGES synopsis, credits, bios

Lúcia Nagib FBA is Professor of Film at the University of Reading and Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo. She is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality, which she has explored through a novel approach in many publications, including her single-authored books, Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her edited books include The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media (with Stefan Solomon, Oxford University Press, 2023), Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (with Luciana Araújo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (with Anne Jerslev, I.B. Tauris, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2012) and Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009). She is the director of feature-length documentary films Passages (with Samuel Paiva, UK, 2019) and Films to Die For (UK, 2025).

Dr Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014) and Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022), and the editor (with Nuno Barradas Jorge) of Slow Cinema (2016) and (with Lúcia Nagib and Luciana Corrêa de Araújo) Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022). He is the editor (with Lúcia Nagib) of the Film Thinks series (Bloomsbury).