More than two decades on, Pierre-Marie Goulet returns to a familiar universe. In 1993 he had already made a series of short films inspired by the stories of Nasreddin. A popular figure in the Middle East, Nasreddin Hodja was a 13th century philosopher and sage who lived in the territory that is now Turkey, although his origins are also claimed by other peoples in the region. His stories are impregnated with a moral sense that puts into question the established order, and gives them universality, ensuring their survival through the ages beyond any anecdotal aspect. Pierre-Marie Goulet captures, with effectiveness and sobriety, the disconcerting humour which changes the way we look at the world, allowing us to be swept along by the stories’ simplicity and falsely naïve intelligence, rather than opting for a methodological approach that attempts to explain their depth. Pierre-Marie Goulet began his career as a director in 1970 and has more than ten and a half hours of documentaries and short films in his filmography, being best known for "Polifonias" (1997) and "Encontros" (2006), evocations by Michel Giacometti and António Reis, dealing with memories of past and present in popular Portuguese and Mediterranean cultures. (MD)