Monsters Summer School III is a summer course, organized by the Center for Social Studies, at the University of Coimbra. In this year's edition, "Tracing, remembering and reclaiming queer lives", the program seeks to embrace monstrosity, namely through the way in which it breaks down binaries and celebrates differences. The course is structured by a mix of lectures, group discussions and workshops.

Queer Lisboa and Queer Porto film festivals partner with the course this year, through the screening of the documentary "Nelly and Nadine", which was part of the Queer Lisboa program in 2022. "Nelly & Nadine", by Magnus Gertten, portrays the unusual love story between two women, who fall in love on Christmas Eve, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the War, Nelly and Nadine manage to meet later and spend the rest of their lives together. The film is told through the perspective of Sylvie Bianchi, Nelly's granddaughter, who grew up knowing Nadine as the "woman who lived with her grandmother", and who throughout the film, reconstitutes her grandmother's image.

The screening will take place on September the 20th.

More information here.