The project FILM AND DEATH has just launched the second episode of their new podcast FILM AND DEATH TALKS. This episode features a conversation with Luís Mendonça, director of “Vestígios” (2026), led by Vasco Baptista Marques, Marco Grosoli and Cátia Rodrigues, members of the project. The conversation is followed by a critical reflection from Vasco Baptista Marques.

The podcast FILM AND DEATH TALKS brings together conversations with filmmakers and other cinema practitioners with short critical reflections on films that offer different ways of thinking about death, mortality, memory, and time. Each episode of FILM AND DEATH TALKS is formed by two parts: a conversation with a filmmaker or cinema practitioner about their work and about the ways questions of death and time emerge through film; and by “A Film to Think Death With”, a critical reflection on a film, drawing on film criticism and film theory to consider how death and time are articulated through narrative, editing, images, cinematic form and concepts.

You can access the first episode on the project’s website and on Spotify:

Vestígios (Traces) – A Conversation with Luís Mendonça