IndieLisboa 2021 — IndieLisboa

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2021

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IndieLisboa 2021

Hello Monsieur

Monsieur is a dog. But a dog that nobody sees. Only his owner. His owner and a boy who usually greets him in the park. When Monsieur disappears … how are they going to find him?

Joséphine Gobbi

2020, 4'

IndieLisboa 2021

Hello World !

“What happened? – “You were just born”. “And where did I come from?” – “From an egg”. “And before that?” – “From a bird”. “And before that?”For several brand new, just-hatched animals of different species – such as the owl, the turtle, the salamander or the beaver – the world is a fresh and mysterious place, with all its magic and danger, ready to be discovered.

Anne-Lise Koehler, Éric Serre

2019, 61'

Special Screenings - 5L

IndieLisboa 2021

Henry IV

(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival) An Italian drama based on the homonymous play by Luigi Pirandello. Marcello Mastroianni is the protagonist of the film, a character who is under the illusion, the result of trauma, that he is the Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist tries to bring him to the present reality, where the woman who loves him (Claudia Cardinale) awaits. Music by Astor Piazzolla. [Based on the play by Luigi Pirandello]Presentation: to be announced

Marco Bellocchio

1984, 85'

IndieLisboa 2021

Her Socialist Smile

This documentary sets the stage for the leftist and suffragette figure of Helen Keller, in a portrait that can be seen as a continuation or expansion of Gianvito’s work in his Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007). Keller lost her hearing and vision as a child, which did not stop her from becoming a prolific writer, lecturer and activist. The film highlights important public appearances, such as her 1913 Out of the Dark speech.

2020, 93'

IndieLisboa 2021

Holgut

The melting of permafrost is a matter of concern in the face of issues related to climate change. In this film, it is a portal for reality to shape itself with fiction, or even myth. Different characters scour the Siberian tundra in search of a rare reindeer or of viable cells from the extinct mammoth. During this odyssey, how do you know when hope becomes an obsession?

Liesbeth de Ceulaer

2021, 75'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2021

Hopper/Welles

Filip Jan Rymsza, who had already produced The Other Side of the Wind – A Welles film kept in a shelf for 40 years and released in 2018 – returns with this conversation between two magisterial figures of American cinema, filmed in 1970. In the two hours of this visual document unknown until now, the two directors vividly debate, questioning the nature of their work and violence in the United States, among other topics. A historical record.

2020, 130'

IndieLisboa 2021

Hunting Day

Every Saturday, this hunter sets out to find prey. The tradition is interrupted by a novelty: he finds a prey that he has never encountered before. Not wanting to leave him behind, he brings him home, which is immediately invaded by the chaos of the new companion.

2020, 3'

IndieLisboa 2021

I Comete − A Corsican Summer

A village in Corsica, in the summer. A piece of the life of its inhabitants, between the games of the youngest, the love affairs of the teenagers and the considerations of the elders. The heat of the season, in the middle of August, also heats up tensions, which threaten to overflow.

2021, 128'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

I Don’t Sleep Anymore

Miguel and his uncle, Kechus, are making a vampire movie together. Kechus has big hands and a long, lean face (perfect for a vampire) and, with a cape and fangs, he would be flawless in the main role. But Miguel doesn’t like to think of his uncle as a vampire.

2020, 22'

IndieLisboa 2021

I’m Full of It!

The Portuguese punk scene portrayed in a documentary focused on João Pedro Almendra, former vocalist of the band Peste & Sida. In addition to testimonials from his companions and other bands, the film focuses on the Lisbon neighborhood of Alvalade, where Almendra has always lived and which was the territory of national punk bands such as Ku de Judas, Peste & Sida and Censurados.

2021, 69'

IndieLisboa 2021

If what I hear is silence

At the end of a long road trip in Greece, words disappear. A mother, a daughter, afriend, and the silence between them. The film catch them precisely when the silence replaces their own words. The three passengers reach their final destination.

Rosa Vale Cardoso

Portugal / Greece

2021, 22'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Imaginary Dead End

Fábio travels the streets of Mouraria with the tension of someone who has to solve a problem that has no solution. When trying to pay off a debt with a client, forbidden and oppressed feelings rise up. And the problems grow denser.

Romano Cassellis

2020, 13'

Silvestre Focus

IndieLisboa 2021

Impression of a War

It’s impossible to tell the history of violence in Colombia. An internal and interminable armed conflict has had its lines of demarcation become indecipherable and it’s merely a part of life in this country. But Restrepo tries to tell this story.

Camilo Restrepo

Colombia / France

2015, 26'

IndieLisboa 2021

In the Air Tonight

In the Air Tonight is, according to Phil Collins, a song about divorce. But for years, there’s been an urban myth that imagines it as something very different. This legend is re-imagined with a dreamlike narration that transforms – with a wink – the song’s experience.

Andrew Norman Wilson

2020, 17'

IndieLisboa 2021

Ink

In two short minutes, we accompany an octopus that just wants the glass that surrounds his habitat to be completely and totally clean. To try and get the task accomplished, he uses all his arms to try to clean one missed spot.

Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch

2020, 2'

Silvestre Focus

IndieLisboa 2021

Jérôme Noetinger

Jérôme Noetinger is a French composer and improviser. Here, he stands before a camera lens in order to use a complex recording instrument to compose, in the moment, a symphony that results from fragments of captured sounds, radio, or static.

2018, 12'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Jack’s Ride

Jack is Joaquim Calçada, a former aircraft mechanic. Before the Carnation Revolution, he emigrated to New York, where he became a taxi driver. He returns, as Carmen Miranda sang, “Americanized”, after twenty years. It’s in Alhandra, Vila Franca de Xira, that, one step away from retirement, he tells stories of his time in the United States and of a journey guided by his survival instinct.

2021, 70'

IndieLisboa 2021

July 96

July is the month of Sophie’s beach vacation, with her mother and cousin. The mere three years that separate Sophie’s 11 and the cousin’s 14 years old lead to new experiences, with less playtime and castles in the sand.

2020, 25'

Silvestre Focus

IndieLisboa 2021

K (Les femmes)

A film about the moments and places that women from Kabylie (Algeria), who otherwise live in isolation from society, are able to find or live in where they can exist, sing, dance. Part of a bigger cinematic project on Kabylie.

Frédérique Devaux

2003, 5'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2021

Keep Shiftin’

Somewhere on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, the employees of a glass factory work, delicately and precisely, the hot materials in hand. The muscular and tattooed bodies of the men mark the beat of a night shift.

2020, 21'

IndieLisboa 2021

Kiki The Feather

Kiki is a canary who dreams of knowing the world beyond his cage. When the door is accidentally opened, Kiki seizes the opportunity and jumps in search of his freedom. But without yet knowing how to fly, he will need a friendly bird to help him.

Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, Julie Rembauville

2020, 5'

IndieLisboa 2021

Kiko and the Animals

Kiko is not kind towards animals. On the contrary, be it a chicken, a dog or a rat, here he comes to torment them. Their mission – besides running away from his wrath – will be to show Kiko that they are just like him, beings to whom we must reach out with an open heart.

France / Switzerland

2020, 7'

Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2021

Kindred

Charlotte is pregnant and just wanted to leave the English countryside with her boyfriend Ben and fulfill the dream of a new start in Australia. Unfortunately, this will not be possible. Charlotte finds herself in the clutches of Ben’s mother, Margaret (Fiona Shaw, from Harry Potter and Killing Eve), and her stepson, who promise to look after her until their baby is born — an heir to the property where they live. But what will happen next?

Joe Marcantonio

2020, 100'

IndieLisboa 2021

Kuku

A documentary animation that answers all the questions anyone ever thought they might have about cucus.

Daniela Hýbnerová

2020, 4'