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IndieLisboa 2021

Sur la dune

A fisherman and his daughter live in an isolated house. Their solitude in relation to other buildings and people, keeps them closer to the stars and the moon, celestial bodies that are witnessing the changes throughout their lives.
Solenne Boisseau, Noémie Da Cruz, Mélanie Schulz
France

2020, 6'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2021

Survivers

A cataclysmic event and the only possible three survivors are impatient to take off the helmets that protect them. How soon will they be safe to do so?
Carlos Gómez-Trigo
Spain

2020, 6'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Symphonie en bêêêêê (Majeur)

After a heavy snowfall, a shepherd and his dog are on a mission to deal with the sheep they care for. But, first, they’ll have to find them and, then, gather them. But with a little music, everything can be done.
Hadrien Vezinet
France

2020, 4'
Director's Cut in Context
IndieLisboa 2021

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

The last film by German director F.W. Murnau, it was produced by Robert Flaherty, in turn responsible for Nanook of the North (1922), the first successful feature-length documentary in American cinemas. This film is divided into two parts, “Paradise” and “Paradise Lost”, showing the experience of a couple on a Polynesian island, colonized and explored by western France.
F.W. Murnau
USA

1931, 86'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Tales from the Multiverse

Everything makes sense now. God used a sort of Paint from Microsoft 1997 to draw a first draft of Earth, with dinosaurs, humans and spaceships. But the kids won’t let him concentrate, the angels won’t help out and it’s best if he just rethinks his strategy.
Magnus Igland Møller, Mette Tange, Peter Smith
Denmark

2020, 7'
Silvestre Focus
IndieLisboa 2021

Terminus For You

The coarse grain of the 16mm film composes images that demand more attention from our gaze. The camera takes us through the Paris metro, observing who is lonely, in love, in a hurry or tired of life.
Nicolas Rey
France

1996, 10'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Thank you

In the midst of unusual visual references to eggs, the focus of this film is Avelardo’s birthday, in this world populated by birds, ducks and other animals, and almost everyone’s invited. Amidst the celebration, there are arrows flying over our protagonists.
Julian Gallese
United Kingdom

2020, 8'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

The 7 Kids

A story based on the Brothers Grimm tale about the Wolf and the Seven Goats, with similarities to the Three Little Pigs or Little Red Riding Hood. Here, the mother of the goats went out and left them at home alone. When a sinister figure arrives, will they be saved?
Marina Karpova
Russia

2020, 5'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

The Bird Hands

An animation film by Sarah Maldoror for the non-profit organization Secours Populaire Français, dedicated to fighting poverty and discrimination.
Sarah Maldoror
France

2005, 1'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

The Canyon

Experimental film where the only architecture that matters is the architecture of dreams. Epcar films the exteriors of houses, people and objects in a mesmerizing way, inviting the audience to a journey guided by music either disturbing or sublime.
Zachary Epcar
USA

2021, 16'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

The City of Abysses

Maya is accompanied by Glória, her best friend, who promises that she will always be with her, into a clandestine appointment. Both trans women, Maya wants silicone, but a timely intervention leads her to change her mind. When they leave, it’s Christmas night and it’s pouring rain. They take refuge in a bar, owned by a Nigerian refugee named Kakule. Bia also takes refuge there, fed up with constant fights with her boyfriend. And so their paths cross.
Priscyla Bettim, Renato Coelho
Brazil

2021, 96'
Special Screenings
IndieLisboa 2021

The City of Nuno Portas

A city is a complex concept. This documentary focuses on the figure of Nuno Portas, one of the great Portuguese urban planners, who believed that an architectural project did not end at a building’s doorstep.
Humberto Kzure, Teresa Prata
Portugal

2021, 80'
Special Screenings - 5L
IndieLisboa 2021

The Color of Pomegranates

(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival) Restored in 2014 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, in association with the National Cinema Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation. A portrait of the Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova that is presented as a visual poem, composed of tableaux representing his life. An enigmatic meditation on art that was such a departure from the Soviet realism of its era that the authorities prevented its distribution outside Armenia. [Based on Sayat Nova’s biography and poetry]Presentation: Elisabete Marques
Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Union

1969, 78'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

The Day Today

A film in two temporal moments. In 2013, Edouard and Suzanne Mouradian live surrounded by screens, computer games and visits by their grandchildren. In 2024, Suzanne is alone, with only an active relationship with contemporary technology, be it cat memes or bitcoin fluctuations. When she discovers an application that promises to bring Edouard back to (her) life, she doesn’t hesitate to try.
Maxence Stamatiadis
France

2021, 67'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Disappearance of Tom R.

Tom R. disappeared, leaving no trace, somewhere between the cafe where he always went and the street he walked every day. After 23 years, a team tries to make a film about what happened and, ambitiously, find a solution. But the mystery does not seem to want to unravel.
Paul Sirague
Belgium

2020, 19'
Director's Cut in Context
IndieLisboa 2021

The Green Years

A classic of Portuguese cinema that marks the emergence of Paulo Rocha and the New Cinema wave. Júlio (Rui Gomes) and Ilda (Isabel Ruth), two working-class youngsters trying to make it in Lisbon, will see their relationship marked by tragedy.
Paulo Rocha
Portugal

1963, 91'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Inheritance

Ephraim Asili continues to explore the African diaspora, as well as his place and role in it. This marks his feature film debut with a meta-textual film, centered on a community of black artists and activists, in West Philadelphia, who want to create a collective. At the same time, it interweaves a remembrance of the MOVE liberation movement, bombed by the Philadelphia police in 1985.
Ephraim Asili
USA

2020, 101'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Last Day

A musical that sublimates the moving side of its narrative, although with a slight smile appearing at the corner of its lips: two people, in a couple, who live in different countries decide to end the relationship, but they will have one last day together.
Lauri-Matti Parppei
Finland

2020, 16'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Last Hillbilly

From mountaineers to miners, and now ignorant, jobless hillbillies. This is how Brian Ritchie describes a generation of Appalachian people, embracing the stereotypes that are imputed to them, but also revealing a type of life in the mountains with a poetic charge difficult to catalog.
Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe
France / Qatar

2020, 80'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2021

The Last Stage

Wanda Jakubowska is a Polish filmmaker known for her work on the Holocaust, herself a victim of it. This film, one of the earliest depictions of life in concentration camps, is a powerful testimony. Filmed in Auschwitz shortly after the end of the war, it portrays the experience of several women in this camp. A little-known film that is presented in a digital restoration that shows the film in a new light (and sound).
Wanda Jakubowska
Poland

1948, 109'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2021

The Nowhere Inn

Bill Benz, in his first feature film, reunites with Carrie Brownstein (from the band Sleater-Kinney), with whom he worked on the comedy she created with Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), Portlandia. Brownstein is the author of the script alongside Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent. The idea, in this mockumentary psychological thriller, is to explore who the “real Annie” is through the eyes of her best friend, Carrie.
Bill Benz
USA

2020, 91'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

The Pan-African Festival of Algiers

The 1st Panafricano Cultural Festival held in Algeria, in 1969, is shown to us by the artist William Klein who observes the preparations and the feeling of joy of the revolutionary movements fighting for the freedom of African nations. The images of the heat of the moment are interspersed with archival images and interviews with writers and activists.
William Klein
Algeria / France / Germany

1969, 112'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Pleasants Effect

The film of Pete Levine’s life. Started in 1973 and finished in 2020, this first film from a 70 year-old young director, tells the story of CR Pleasants’ life, and family, an amateur inventor who claimed to be able to dispel the type of fog that, in the 30s and 40s, afflicted plane pilots. 
Pete Levine
United States

2020, 36'
International Competition
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

The Shift

At first nothing seems to load Anna with worries or weights during a short trip, in the company of her dog. But the environment begins to change when entering the supermarket. While viewing the shelves, the displays, she does mental calculations. Until the call.
Laura Carreira
United Kingdom / Portugal

2020, 9'

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