IndieLisboa 2021 — IndieLisboa

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

INDIELISBOA 2021

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“Point Virgule”

Point Virgule is a newspaper for young people and it’s made by young people. In this piece, they talk about the edition and its sections and texts, including articles on racism.

1986, 4'

“Wielopole” Mise en scène du polonais Kantor

Polish director Tadeusz Kantor and the theater company Cricot 2 take the play Wielopole, Wielopole to the stage at the Théàtre des Bouffes du Nord, in Paris. In the play, the stages of Christ’s passion merge with a military nightmare.

1980, 3'

National Competition

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

The result of a year-long collaboration between Ana Vaz and two high school students, Vera Amaral and Mário Neto, this is a kaleidoscopic film about what it is to look, to be looked at and about the latent potential of cinema.

2020, 32'

Special Screenings - 5L

2001: A Space Odyssey

(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival) Talking about 2001: Space Odyssey is talking about a film that has become one of the most influential works in the history of cinema. Indelible in the collective consciousness are aspects such as the opening music (Thus Spake Zarathrusta), the monolith scene, as well as the A.I. character that is HAL and the Oscar-winning special effects. The film focuses on a trip to Jupiter and addresses themes such as existentialism or human evolution. [Based on the short story The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke]Presentation: Luís Nogueira

Stanley Kubrick

United Kingdom / USA

1968, 149'

Mouth of Madness

50 (or Two whales meet at the Beach)

Felix meets Elisa. But what could be the initial meet cute of a romantic comedy or melodrama is instead the not so cute invitation to play a dangerous game with 50 challenges that end in suicide. The couple will enter the competition together until death tears them apart.

2020, 122'

9 Sevilles

A portrait of the new flamenco in Seville, through nine protagonists, including the dancer Javiera de la Fuente, the poet David Pielfort, the gypsy lawyer and feminist Pastora Filigrana or the actress Rocío Montero. Includes performances by Israel Galván, Alfredo Lago, Inés Bachan, Rocío Márquez, Cantizano Raul, Loyal Leonor, Tomás de Perrate, Niño de Elche, Silvia Pérez Cruz and Rosalía.

Pedro G. Romero, Gonzalo García Pelayo

2020, 158'

Mouth of Madness

A Bay of Blood

A classic of 70s Italian horror that celebrates 50 years since its premiere. The plot begins when the wealthy and wheelchair-bound Countess Federica Donati is killed in the middle of the night. Her mansion, overlooking the eponymous bay, will be the object of desire for many people, illegitimate children included. But the deaths don’t seem to stop.

1971, 87'

A dessert for Constance

A film that uses comedy as a way to combat racist stereotypes and outdated nationalist ideas, such as the concept of culinary prowess, through a look at the daily lives of African migrants in Paris.

1980, 61'

International Competition

A Dim Valley

In this ethereal and modern version of a free love film from the 1960s, we find a moody biologist and his graduate assistants trying to develop a summer project in the wild nature of the Appalachian forest. There, they encounter three mysterious figures who will change their lives.

2020, 92'

A Fishy Fishing Trip

A man, a cat, a small boat and a moment of fishing at sea. Both man and cat love fish. The first one he catches, he offers to the cat. But what about when a seagull appears in the mix?

Fabrice Luang-Vija

France / Belgium

2019, 6'

A Stone in the shoe

It is a school where the teacher is a rabbit, and the students are rabbits too. Unfortunately, the new student is a frog, who feels he is not where he belongs. But nothing that a new friendship can’t cure.

2020, 12'

Mouth of Madness

A Stranger from the Past

Six tense minutes in which a car mechanic opens a Pandora-hood that reveals something primordial that haunts him.

2020, 5'

A Symphony of Noise

A film about and with Matthew Herbert, a British electronic musician and activist. In this documentary, the director accompanies Herbert through his creative process of an idiosyncratic project: writing a book in which each chapter painstakingly describes a piece of music and it’s up to the reader to imagine the symphony.

Enrique Sánchez Lansch

2021, 97'

A Tiny Tale

An aspiring astronaut and a dedicated cyclist (both to her bike and her goal of breaking her record) find an abandoned dog, by the side of the road. And this is where the adventure really begins.

Sylvain Cuvillier, Chloé Bourdic, Théophile Coursimault, Noémie Halberstam, Maÿlis Mosny, Zijing Ye

2020, 8'

A Triad of Paper Horns

A film that combines archival, digital and 16mm images to build a journey around rituals, erotic dreams, and the sound of paper being molded.

Patrícia Janeiro

2020, 6'

Écrivain public

Interview with women of different nationalities who are “public” writers. They link French administrative bodies to people who cannot speak and/or write French.

1985, 3'

Abbaye Royale de St. Denis

A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of French kings, from the 10th to the 19th century.

1977, 7'

Affairs of the Art

Joanna Quinn’s idiosyncratic and funny style recovers the character Beryl to explore her eccentric family – Colin, the geek son; Ifor, her husband, who became Beryl’s model and inspiration; and the narcissistic sister Beverly –, and the various obsessions that plague them.

Joanna Quinn, Les Mills

2021, 16'