IndieLisboa 2021 — IndieLisboa

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2021

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IndieLisboa 2021

Eram 27 Dias e Paraste

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the presentation of Noiserv’s latest album, Uma palavra começada por N, at Lisbon’s Teatro Tivoli BBVA, on November 13, 2020.

Jota Assis, Noiserv

2021, 22'

IndieLisboa 2021

Eventide

Rafa senses an eminent farewell, remembering bygone places, encounters and fleeting connections.

Vasco Trabulo Bäuerle

2021, 10'

Special Screenings - 5L

IndieLisboa 2021

Fahrenheit 451

(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival) Truffaut’s first colour film combines the black humour of the French director and the morality of Ray Bradbury’s book, which has already been adapted to cinema several times, specifically because of the way in which the story’s dystopia is portrayed. It’s a world where literature is banned for being the spark that can light the flame of revolution, something that is literally extinguished by dedicated firefighters. [Based on the romance by Ray Bradbury] Presentation: Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre

François Truffaut

1966, 112'

IndieLisboa 2021

Far From You I Grew

Nicolas imagines other worlds, far from his daily routine. He prefers to dream of Ulysses or Jack London’s travels. Imagining that he, too, will be able to travel far away. Nicolas is Sabrina’s son, but he was taken from his mother and placed in a foster home. The days pass, punctuated by events, such as seeing his mother or going to the woods with his friend Saef. But Nicolas continues adrift.

2020, 102'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2021

Fitas Cirúrgykas

It is with images of Domingos de Oliveira Santos, a surgeon turned filmmaker, that Edgar Pêra composes a mosaic that goes beyond home videos, rushing beyond them.

2021, 10'

Special Screenings

IndieLisboa 2021

Flee

An animated documentary that tells the story of Amin, who, before marrying his boyfriend, decides to reveal a secret he has been hiding for twenty years. Amin arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Afghanistan. In this movie, he deals with his traumatic past.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Denmark / France / Sweden / Norway

2021, 89'

Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2021

Flex

A bodybuilder and his inner monologue take on a bizarre dimension when exploring his relationship with his body — he loves himself, he loves himself not?

David Strindberg, Josefin Malmen

2020, 4'

Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2021

Flick

Richie is a college student who has stopped attending classes. Maybe he is bored, maybe he is depressed, but his time is all spent at home. In the midst of his loneliness, he enjoys taking boogers out of his nose and flicking them. Until one doesn’t come off his finger.

Ariel Zengotita

2019, 10'

IndieLisboa 2021

Fogo, Fire Island

Ilha do Fogo, in Cape Verde, is the setting for this documentary from the 70s produced by the revolutionary government of the new country, and in which the director chose an anthropological approach. The film looks beautifully at a country in the beginning of its independence.

1979, 34'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Fold

Hands searching the green moss, feet treading dead and crunchy logs, stones turned in search of hidden treasures, a frog nudged until it runs away. This is Dobra’s visual and aural universe, but the door opens for something darker to enter.

Gonçalo Robalo, Rita Figueiredo

2021, 13'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2021

Forensickness

Chloé Galibert-Laîné analyzes Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives and the content produced after the Boston attacks. At the same time, Galibert-Laîné uses Structuralism, film editing and her academic language in her own investigation.

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

France / Germany

2020, 40'

IndieLisboa 2021

Forest – I See You Everywhere

A spiritual sequel to a previous film, Forest, a drama made with very little money, populated by amateur actors and characters with different relationships in crisis, composed in a series of vignettes. Here, we see a return to style and genre, with new characters in an equally claustrophobic environment, where Fliegauf explores themes such as abuse, trauma, loss and revenge.

2021, 112'

IndieLisboa 2021

Foreword to Guns for Banta

An elegy for Sarah Maldoror’s lost film, Guns for Banta, from 1970. This accompanied a woman involved in the struggle for the independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. Financed by the Algerian army, the aim was to use it as propaganda, having been confiscated from Maldoror.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnec

2011, 28'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Friend of a Friend

The neon colors are not here to distract, rather they point to the dreamlike quality of this film that tries to address, without being moralizing, issues related to consent. A surprise party turns out to be the trigger to explore the dynamic between victim and abuser.

2020, 14'

IndieLisboa 2021

From Where They Stood

Christophe Cognet visits World War II concentration and extermination camps, such as Ravensbrück, Dachau or Auschwitz-Birkenau, evoking the presence of people who went through them and tried, clandestinely, to photograph and document the horror they saw with their own eyes. This evocation is made through the photographs that Cognet was able to obtain, juxtaposing the images captured with the locations in their contemporaneity.

Christophe Cognet

France / Germany

2021, 110'

IndieLisboa 2021

Fruto do Vosso Ventre

An analysis of the director’s relationship with his father and the reasons why he distanced himself from the house he grew up in. Sometimes you have to grow faster.

2021, 20'

IndieLisboa 2021

Fuel

An atmospheric documentary about the routine of Shizuko Nakajima, a veteran chef in one of Japan’s oldest robata-yaki restaurants (culinary style similar to barbecue). What sets this apart from other common grill practices is the use of a communal fireplace.

2020, 16'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Garças

After a painful nose operation, Gabriela spends a sweltering summer vacation with her parents in a house in the country. Still in convalescence, she enjoys the attention and pampering that surrounds her — until the arrival of her parents French friends.

Gabriela Nemésio Nobre

2020, 20'

Special Screenings

IndieLisboa 2021

Gaza My Love

The Nasser brothers’ second feature film takes place in contemporary Gaza. At 60, Issa is a curmudgeonly, but secretly charming, solitary fisherman. He is in love with Sihma, a woman who works at the market, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell her. Until the day he discovers a phallic statue of the god Apollo and his life changes. A film that combines absurd comedy, magical realism and the spirit of Italian neo-realism in a unique recipe.

Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

France / Germany / Portugal / Palestine / Qatar

2020, 85'

IndieLisboa 2021

Girls | Museum

If museums are institutions that preserve cultural history, they are also spaces for selecting what kind of objects, therefore which aspects of history, are chosen for preservation. This decision is made, for the most part, by men. At the same time, museums around the world are full of portraits of women. This imbalance calls for a reaction. Here, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig collection is seen through the eyes of girls aged from 7 to 19.

2020, 71'

IndieLisboa 2021

Girlsboysmix

Wen Long was a baby that presented as both a boy and a girl. Contrary to many cases, Wen remains in an intermediate place. Wen explains that they are a boy and a girl, and this film wants to allow space to everyone that doesn’t feel like they belong to a single category.

2020, 6'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Granary Squares

In Granary Squares, our perspective is that of the surveillance camera over a new development in King’s Cross, London. Over the course of an hour, we get closer through this lens to a series of everyday moments lived in the square, in a zoom that keeps narrowing down.

United Kingdom / Portugal

2021, 64'

IndieLisboa 2021

Happy Valley

Hong Kong is the place where Simon Liu grew up and the director’s relationship with the region – which has been the site of protests with the People’s Republic of China – permeates this film. From the small pleasures to images of recent events, it all works as a tribute or as a call to attention.

2020, 12'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Heliconia

Heliconia is textures (those of the film), colors (those of nature), heat (that of summer) and bodies (hanging from trees, eating mangoes). A synesthetic symphony where fourteen-year-old Maria goes in search of paradise on Earth with her brother and his friend Adrian.

Paula Rodríguez Polanco

France / Colombia

2020, 26'