Film is the creative tool of filmmakers, musicians, writers, and visual artists from different generations, giving it a form through musical creations, cine-concerts, re-readings of cinematographic works, and experiences based on virtual reality technologies and immersive cinema. To provide a stage for new perspectives on the seventh art, Braga 25 - Portuguese Capital of Culture has created CINEX, an expanded cinema programme line-up that during the year will occupy Theatro Circo with cine-concerts and new audiovisual creations, and fill the gnration's venues and galleries with exhibitions and installations.

On 15 March, this new artistic commitment arrives at Theatro Circo with a cine-concert that combines the musical melancholy of Kathryn Joseph with the cinematic drama of F.W. Murnau. Intimate, haunting, and with a remarkable emotional depth, the Scottish composer returns to this same stage - which received her in 2019 - to fulfill a challenge set by CINEX: to compose the soundtrack for what would become one of the most acclaimed expressionist classics of German cinema, Faust (1926).

Using musical composition as a catharsis for pains that refuse to leave her, Kathryn Joseph performs a unique cine-concert and gives voice to the film that tells the story of Faust, an old doctor who, to save the dying from a plague unleashed by Mephisto, falls into (mis)understandings with powerful divinities. With photography that explores the tension between light and shadow, special effects, and a dynamic camera, Faust - this (literally and visually) infernal and haunting silent cinema work - illustrates Kathryn Joseph's characteristic sonority: minimalist without stepping out of the shadows.

The show takes place on 15 March at 9:30 p.m. at Theatro Circo in Braga. More information at theatrocirco.com.