IndieLisboa 2004 — IndieLisboa

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INDIELISBOA 2004

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IndieLisboa 2004

10 on Ten

On the trail of Ten, Abbas Kiarostami takes us to the heart of a creative process of his films and reveals to us a complete body of work. An incisive reflection on cinema.

Abbas Kiarostami

2004, 83'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

1916

The Books of Hours are medieval illuminated manuscripts. Each book has a collection of texts, prayers and salms appropriated for certain schedules. As Horas do Douro is inspired in this medieval idea of inventory and annual registry and it shows the cycle of the wine and the vineyard and how it determines the life of the people of this region. What we want to show, by the recognition of the landscape changes throughout the different seasons of the year, is that this vineyard is a work of men, that the wine it’s a human thing and that’s the way it must be shown.

2003, 8'

IndieLisboa 2004

99 Years of my Life

In 1974, at the peak of their talents and careers, some of the most celebrated American Rhythm & Blues and soul acts of the time, including James Brown, B. B. King, Bill Withers and The Spinners, traveled to Kinshasa. They came together in Zaire’s capital with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa, such as Miriam Makeba and Afrisa for a three-day long concert. Most of the American performers, emboldened by the African-American liberation movement, were visiting Africa for the first time, and they let themselves be inspired by their African roots.

2004, 33'

International Competition

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

A Cara Que Mereces

Francisco, behave! I know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that’s no reason to be so annoying… Francisco, repeat after me: “Up to your 30’s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve”.

2004, 120'

IndieLisboa 2004

Accordéon

A woman connects to the Internet. She not only embraces technology but surrenders to it entirely as she downloads her body and soul to her electronic lover. In this world of Pandora’s boxes, sexual desire and dehumanizing machine interwine till they’re finally and brutally disconnected.

Michèle Cournoyer

2004, 6'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Alice et Moi

2004, 19'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Aqua Gym

Two synchronised swimmers perfom a series of choreographic movements below and above water. A film about weightlessness, an experimental piece of work that exemplifies film’s illusionist nature.

Simon Warwick Green

2003, 4'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Arkar

100 miles north of the Artic circle, people are fishing on the lake Torneträsk in temperatures of minus 25º Celsius. They sit in their arks – small, moveable cabins, no larger than 4 square meters, filled with mod cons.

Karin Karlsson, Mita Moberg

2004, 13'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Atash

It has been ten years since Abu Shukri and his family, have settled in a valley, in the middle of nowhere, far away from their hometown. Completely independent, they live on charcoal they produce. Only the father and the son are in contact with the outside world. The father goes to the village to sell the charcoal whereas the son runs off to the village school. The mother and her two daughters incessantly burn wood. Abu Shukri, the father, brought them to this place against their will and they know that the reason why they left the village is also the reason why they can never return. The father decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their rustic home. The women are suspicious and the son doesn’t care but the running water awakens their instinct of freedom and marks the beginning of the family’s explosive tragicdownfall.

Tawfik Abu Wael¬†

Palestine / Israel

2004, 110'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Böse Zellen

Barbara Albert tackles an ambitious subject: the chaos theory, applied to the daily life of her characters. The filmmaker uses Edward lorenz’ famous “butterfly effect” to set Bose Zellen in motion. A butterfly’s beating wings set off a tornado above the Gulf of Mexico that causes the crash of an airplane leaving for Europe. A single passenger survives: Manu, a young woman of 24. We see her again five years later, living in a small town in Austria, working in a local supermarket. The circle of people around her expands according to the people she meets, deliberately sought out or accidentally encountered. This fabric of interweaving lives creates a constant flux of “cause and effects”. Depending on the decisions taken by individuals, destinies change, intersect, become entangled, tending as often towards happiness as to misfortune.

Austria / Germany

2003, 120'

IndieLisboa 2004

Before Sunset

Nine years ago in Before Sunrise, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) two 23-year old travellers in Viena, met, fell in love and parted 24 hours later, promising to meet again in six months. Jesse is now in Paris promoting his novel that focuses on the encounter. Céline comes along to a reading. Afterwards, in the hour or so he has to spare before heading to the airport, they wander trough a sunlit and impossibly romantic Paris, talking. Both were obviously deeply affected by their earlier encounter, and now, given a second chance, they both have to decide what to do next.

Richard Linklater

2004, 80'

Independent Hero

IndieLisboa 2004

Brother to Brother

After being found in an intimate encounter with another young man, Perry is thrown out of his house and forced to survive on his own. As he struggles to hold on by working in a homeless shelter and trying to maintain a college scholarship, he is haunted by his homosexuality and becomes increasingly withdrawn due to his family’s rejection. As his friend Marcus is performing his new poetry for him, an eldery man, Bruce, appears seemingly out of nowhere and begins reciting verse to them. He disappears just as quickly and elusively as he arrived, before they get a chance to talk to him. In his library research for a class project, Perry finds a book about the Harlem Renaissance and recognizes a poem (Smoke, Lilies and Jade by Bruce Nugent) as the same one that the eldery man was reciting. They encounter eachother again at the homeless shelter where Perry works. He confronts Bruce about who he is and begins to ask him about the Harlem Renaissance. They go on a literal and metaphorical journey to the house that was known as “Niggeratti Manor” and Perry learns about the lives and personalities of Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas. He sees the pride that Bruce exuded in those times in terms of being black, gay and unashamed. His pride and self-esteem begin to have an empowering effect on Perry as he gains a stronger sense of his identity. We witness the transformative power that they have on each other’s lives through their shared passion for art and storytelling.

2004, 90'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Cesky Sen

Czech Dream is a funny and provocative look at the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-community society. Filip Remunda and Vít Klusák set out to explore the manipulative powers of advertising in all it’s perversity by creating an ad campaign for something that does not exist.

Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák

2004, 87'

IndieLisboa 2004

Cold Wa(te)r

No one in the world chooses a place to be born. Some frontiers can be crossed just by stretching an arm. What’s the use of a frontier? The European Union is growing, but can a group of countries grow by shutting itself from other geographically contiguous countries? This film is made of pictures that we see daily on television, passing in front of our eyes like a formula 1 car, they were worked over, reframed, and tha action was slowed down.

Teresa Villaverde

2004, 5'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Con qué la lavaré?

A character living in the red-light district of a Spanish city goes back home at dawn, after work and, while removing the make-up and getting undressed, recalls all that hapenned during the night.

2003, 11'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Cracker Bag

Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracket night. When it finally arrives, Eddie and her family head ti the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment.

2003, 14'

IndieLisboa 2004

Dai Si Gein

When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. Vowing to capture the robbers at all cost, the policemen in the whole city, some thirty thousand of them, are mobilized to patrol every possible exit route and city border. While on a separate investigation in a run-down building. While on a separate investigation on a run-down buiding, detective Cheung of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau accidentally discovers the hideout of the robbers. Led by the ultra-cool Yuen, the five-man gang soon find the building besieged by thousands of policemen. Cheung and his men have also entered the building, getting ready to take their foes out any minute. Meanwhile, in order to beat the media at its own game, Inspector Rebecca decides to turn the stakeout into a breaking news show. Entering the building accompanied by officers with wireless cameras atop their helmets, she promises to feed live footages of their operation to the media. The whole of Hong kong is glued to their TV sets, eager to devour the latest action in real time. Oblivious to them all, the building is occupied by yet another gang. Attacked from both sides, Cheung’s team suffers from serious casualties but Rebecca doctors her footage, reporting nothing but good news. Only when Yuen has taken some residents hostage and releases the close-circuit TV footage to the news stations is she forced to release the true footage to the public in all its gory details.

2004, 90'

IndieLisboa 2004

Desde la Memoria

Desde la Memoria are recollections of Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. Excerpts from interviews with contemporary witnesses, alienated archive material and pictures of today’s Spanish day-today life have been merged into an experimental montage. Picture and sound fragments are associatively related, evoking – like a collective stream of memories – the misery in times of war and oppression.

Christina Von Greve

Germany / Spain

2003, 7'

Independent Hero

IndieLisboa 2004

Down to the bone

In Upstate New York, Irene struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolated by the strip malls and dying small towns that define the area, Irene’s not sure when she went from high school partying to skimming off the grocery money to supply her growing habit – but it’s about to end abruptly. Desperate to alter her life, she puts herself in rehab, hoping that she can turn around the world she has made with her husband, Steve. But once she’s back home the distance between them seems to have grown and Irene ends up falling into an incendiary affair with Bob, a nurse and former addict that she met at rehab. His attention and affection awakens her pushed aside life, but all too soon she realizes they have more in common than she bargained for.

2004, 101'

Independent Hero

IndieLisboa 2004

Dysenchanted

Storybook characters Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Alice, Dorothy and Red Riding Hood are in group therapy dealing with the issue that life is no fairy tale. When Clara, whose tale is yet to be told, joins them, she finds out that all women are heroes in their own stories.

Terri Edda Miller

2003, 8'

IndieLisboa 2004

Dysmorpho

Every morning millions of battles are being fought in front of the bathroom mirrors across the planet. Smooth skin, white teeth, perfect proportions. We are all trying to beat nature forces and look better. For our hero, it’s usually an easy conquest, but one day something is different and he encounters unexpected problems with a stubborn hair.

Martin Kjellberg, Magnus Söderstedt

2004, 5'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Eiffeltornet

One Sunday morning Jacob, a middle age man, treis to tell his wife about a dream he had during the night. The city had it’s usual French charm, but the only thing he could think about was that the Eiffel Tower was nowhere to be found.

Niklas Radström

2004, 13'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2004

Estrela da Tarde

This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born before time. She goes through the daily routine with the memories and songs from another time, that fills the soundtrack of her world.

Madalena Miranda

2004, 25'

Independent Hero

IndieLisboa 2004

Exit 8A

In a desperate attempt to find his truth, Nick hunts down his deadbeat father for answers.

Margaret Harris

2003, 22'