In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa (HORSE MONEY, IN VANDA'S ROOM) brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur’s classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country’s colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana (Inês de Medeiros), accompanies Leão (Isaach de Bankolé) to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident leaves him in a coma—but he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, CASA DE LAVA foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right. (Grasshopper Films) Followed by Costa’s aching and enthralling musical THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (AS FILHAS DO FOGO, 2023, 9 min., Portugal, in Portuguese with English subtitles / Format: Digital), in which sisters sing about their lives after the eruption of a volcano in Cape Verde. IN DIALOGUE: Pedro Costa in conversation with Melika Bass, Filmmaker and Associate Professor in Film Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago