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Ana Mercedes Hoyos

Metal fruit bowls and paintings representing the banana. Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos talks about her influences in a documentary that does not forget issues such as slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

France / Colombia

2008, 13'

IndieLisboa 2021

And the Dogs Were Quiet

Theater play whose narrative focuses on a rebellion of a man against the enslavement of his people, filmed inside the Musée de l’Homme, in Paris. With performances by Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror.

Sarah Maldoror, Bernard Favre, Vincent Blanchet

1978, 13'

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Angry Dogs

These dogs are angry. They bark when they see an apple, or a football, or a goldfish. But why are they so angry? A good-natured meditation on rabies, using a crude line to draw these scruffy canines.

2020, 5'

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Anna and Manon go to the Sea

Anna and Manon have plans for after the summer camp. Specific plans to visit an aunt and imagined plans to live in a cave on the beach, never having to be apart. But when the imagined plans seem to become the real ones, their friendship is tested.

Catherine Manesse

2020, 4'

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Are You Still There?

The interior of a parked car, with a dead battery, on a hot day. Safa has to wait and help will take a while. Heat adds to tension and frustration.

Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis

2021, 15'

Director’s Cut

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Around Rocha’s Table

Samuel Barbosa, in his first feature film, explores the creative process of Paulo Rocha (Os Verdes Anos) and his films, through his characters, the artists he worked with and other testimonies of his art.

Portugal / Japan

2021, 94'

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Assia Djebar

Interview with Algerian author Assia Djebar about her novel Ombre Sultane. Djebar discusses the role of women in the Arab and Muslim world, and her desire for Western or European readers to see themselves in the book’s protagonists.

1987, 7'

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Atarrabi & Mikelats

The goddess Mari decides to have the Devil be in the position of tutoring her twin sons, the titulars Atarrabi and Mikelats. Who better than him to prepare them for the world? The brothers grow up to become very different people: Atarrabi, solemn and curious, feels the world outside calling for him; Mikelats prefers to embrace a life of fun with his demon friends. In this modernized version of a Basque myth, sincerity and satire go hand in hand.

France / Belgium

2020, 123'

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Athleticus: Exhibition Bosses

Two kangaroos skiing, a hippopotamus and a flamingo rolling through the snow. These are the winter sports exhibitions of animals before an audience that includes ostriches, elephants and giraffes.

Nicolas Deveaux

2019, 2'

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Bébé

Is it the cold, or thirst, maybe hunger, or fear of the dog? This baby personified in a small fire cries without his friends, animals and other fantastic creatures, realizing why. To cheer him up, they launch rockets, bring cakes and invent the catchiest song ever.

Margot Reumont, Ornella Macchia, Gwendoline Gamboa

2020, 3'

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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

A satire of the global pandemic that we still live in. This film begins with a sex tape that goes awry. At stake is the life and career of Emi, a teacher who is forced by her students’ parents to resign. However, Emi refuses. Recommended for those who enjoy transgressive cinematic experiences – in the best sense.

Romania / Luxembourg / Czech Republic / Croatia

2021, 106'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Bambirak

Faruk has the responsibility of delivering parcels as his first job in Germany. Today, his eight-year-old daughter, Kati, hides in his van to spend the day, and time, with him. But a moment of cloaked racism tests their relationship.

2020, 14'

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Being

An animation that shows how a Being, indistinct but colorful, left a well to start a journey without a perceivable destination. The scenarios change and the plot thickens.

2021, 9'

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Belgrade Forest Incident…and What Happened to Mr. K?

Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who resided in the United States and was vocally critical of the Saudi Arabian government, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, on 2 October 2018, and disappeared. The murder of this Mr. K is told through news reports.

Finland / Turkey

2020, 30'

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Black Square

The black square in the middle of the screen. The contorting human figures. The succession of images in constant visual and sonorous assault. An audio sample of the opening of the 1965 Op Art exhibition, The Responsive Eye. Five minutes of extreme sensory experience.

2020, 6'

National Competition

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Blindman’s Buff

An investigation regarding vulnerability and security, challenge and resistance, as well as the figures that still haunt the city streets.

Tomás Paula Marques

2021, 16'

Director's Cut in Context

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Blood

The Portuguese director’s first feature film points to a palimpsest of cinephile references that never cloud Pedro Costa’s authorial imprint. In this film, Vicente and Nino’s life becomes even more unmoored after the abandonment of their father. Clara tries to help them, but it’s a world where survival is a constant struggle. With Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira and Inês de Medeiros.

1989, 95'

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Blue and Silver

A film that is the culmination of seven years of filming, with intimate and abstract images, that captures the details and the big picture. The de- and re-contextualization of these images creates a symphony.

João Coroa Justino

2020, 15'

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Blue Animal

A love story is always a ghost story and this story is haunted by a relationship that has recently ended and a pet that has died. An email movingly narrated, tinged by the blues of the Super8 images.

Rafael Spínola

2020, 6'

International Competition

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Blue Rose

A documentary that explores all facets of the flower as a concept, reflecting on its beauty, its history and its commodification. From experiments to achieve a specific color to an auction, the semiotic world of the flower is encompassed in the chapters of this visual essay.

2020, 53'

Mouth of Madness

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Bobby Pinwheel

Bobby Pinwheel is the worst clown you could invite to any birthday party. Poor Reginald, who just wanted to celebrate his birthday.

Robert Kleinschmidt

2020, 4'

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By the Throat

Effi & Amir (born in Israel, living in Brussels) are a pair of artists who’ve worked together for over 20 years. In By the Throat, they explore a specific idea: human discourse (seen and studied in multiple ways) and the way in which strange/foreign sounds are understood as different or alien, in the same way as distinct territories can be considered hostile or lead to the definition of borders.

2021, 75'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

C

C just wants to find a being with whom he can feel the tenderness of closeness and intimacy. In successive stages, C discovers the ups and downs of finding what he wants and then losing it. Between solitude and companionable touch.

Marion Täschler

2020, 5'

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Carnival in Bissau

A documentary short that focuses on how the inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau view their black identity and culture, with the annual Carnival celebration as a backdrop.

1980, 18'