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IndieLisboa 2021

Ouverture du Théâtre noir à Paris

The opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a theater company and cultural association created with the objective of providing a place of creation and a space of representation for theater that heralds from Africa (specifically connected to négritude) and the French Antilles.
Sarah Maldoror
France

1980, 6'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

Palma

Jeanne went with her six-year-old daughter to Majorca because it was cheap. And also to give her daughter something interesting to write about on the schoolwork about her vacation. But frustrations arise that bring this mother closer to her breaking point.
Alexe Poukine
France / Belgium

2020, 40'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Papa Zaza

Fleur and her family are waiting for the father, Zaza, to return from the hospital. Narrated with a sweetness and sensitivity that’s moving, we see how Fleur reacts to the successive events that interrupt a playful childhood, as her father gets worse.
Géraldine Charpentier
Belgium

2020, 8'
Special Screenings
IndieLisboa 2021

Paraíso

Sérgio Tréfaut returns to Brazil to film the public gardens of the Palácio do Catete, the former official residence of the presidents of Brazil that today houses the Museum of the Republic. Before the pandemic, this place of leisure was also a meeting point for the Seresta guys, a group of elderly people with a love for Brazilian singing and music that this film pays tribute to.
Sérgio Tréfaut
Portugal / France

2021, 85'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2021

Party Tattoos

A documentary in the first-person – composed of narration and archival footage – that focuses on the celebration of past birthdays as the narrator, now grown, wonders who she was and who she is.
Teresa Sandeman
Portugal

2020, 8'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2021

Patent Nr. 314805

Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt successfully recorded sound on film using a device of his own invention, the photomagnetophone, ten years before there were any advances in commercial cinema—in 1914. These are the original surviving tests.
Mika Taanila
Finland

2020, 2'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2021

Patrick

Luke Fowler continues to create posthumous portraits of relevant figures. In this film, he evokes the life of music producer Patrick Cowley, the pioneer of Hi-NRG, a genre of electronic music, in the late 70s, and a prolific artist of the San Francisco cultural scene.
Luke Fowler
United Kingdom

2020, 21'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Places

The camera wanders into a park and surrounding residential area. Changes and new construction works are coming, but for today, two friends take one last intimate walk where they expand time, avoiding parting.
Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania

2020, 13'
Silvestre Focus
IndieLisboa 2021

Planches, clous, marteaux

Gravayat mixes images from the past, from the 50s to the 70s, and contemporary images to show connections and developments in the Seine-Saint-Denis area, on the outskirts of Paris, a place of precarious housing, whose populations are always under attack.
Jérémy Gravayat
France

2015, 13'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2021

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Poly Styrene, from the English band X-Ray Spex, saw the Sex Pistols in 1976 and converted to punk rock. This film, directed by Paul Sng and the singer’s daughter, Celeste Bell, portrays a musical icon who has become a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements, having revolted against the racist, sexist and oppressive structures in England, at the end of the 20th century. The opposite of a cliché.
Celeste Bell, Paul Sng
United Kingdom

2021, 89'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Pompier

It is from his watchtower that our fireman inspects the entire city, looking for evidence that points to any potential danger. Despite his dedication, there are no threats in sight. However, the day will come when he finds his true purpose.
Yulia Aronova
France

2020, 9'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

Portrait d’une femme africaine

After an interview whose theme is Senegalese immigrants in France, a piece by Sarah Maldoror appears. This is about the role of African women in social organization, founded on ideals of community solidarity.
Sarah Maldoror
France

1985, 6'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Poum Poum!

Markers, pens, pencil smudges, scribbles on paper. An animated musical whose purpose is to celebrate the harmony that is created between colors, patterns, textures and sounds, in a symphony of creative and spontaneous energy to the rhythm of the drum cymbals.
Damien Tran
France

2021, 6'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

Première Rencontre internationale des femmes noires

Report on RIFEN, the first international meeting of black women. The focus is on the similarities between black women, and not just African ones, and in the phenomenon of transplantation.
Sarah Maldoror
France

1986, 2'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Push This Button if You Begin to Panic

Bartholomew Whisper has a hole, quite beautiful by the way, in the head. On a visit to the doctor, he is faced with a series of odd situations. A sarcastic and scathing comment on health systems, what constitutes health and what is a disease.
Gabriel Böhmer
United Kingdom / Switzerland

2020, 13'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Radiograph of a Family

An extremely personal documentary in which Firouzeh Khosrovani intimately reveals the life and marriage of her parents, people who couldn’t be at more opposite poles regarding secularism and religious Islamic ideology. A story told through archival images, letters and conversations, in a radiography that goes beyond the particular to also illustrate conflicts at the heart of Iranian society.
Firouzeh Khosrovani
Iran / Norway / Switzerland

2020, 80'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

Regards de mémoire

Documentary with the poets Édouard Glissant and Aimé Césaire, which also includes interviews with the writer Roland Suvélor and the politician Madeleine de Grandmaison. Greg Germain, actor and director, reads poems.
Sarah Maldoror
Martinique / Haiti

2003, 24'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

René Depestre, poète haïtien

Short documentary about René Depestre, poet and former communist activist, one of the most important figures in Haitian literature.
Sarah Maldoror
France

1981, 5'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2021

Rendang of Death

Two friends — and the rest of the entire restaurant — have just eaten the best rendang ever and want seconds. But the most feared words come out of the waiter’s mouth: “We’re out”. One last, single piece remains and they are all prepared to fight for it.
Percolate Galactic
Indonesia

2020, 7'
Silvestre Focus
IndieLisboa 2021

Retour à la rue d’Éole

A film made of collages. Collages of images, collages of poems to images, and collages of music to images. In this film, a journey is built through excerpts from popular Greek films from the 50s and 60s, poems by Greek authors and the music of Manos Hadjidakis.
Maria Kourkouta
Greece

2013, 14'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Return to Toyama

Takumi left Toyama, on the coast of Japan, some time ago. He returns after the death of his father, who never wanted him to leave. He now visits the places and relationships he left behind, with the melancholy of someone who looks differently at what was once familiar.
Atsushi Hirai
France

2020, 25'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

Revelations

A film that results from a conversation that the director has with his mother in which he asks about the day he was born, opening an intimate door not only for the relationship between mother and son, but for the life experience of this woman.
Juan Soto Taborda
Colombia / United Kingdom

2020, 29'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Rock Bottom Riser

Fern Silva’s first feature film is an essay-film produced in Hawaii, which mixes cinematographic genres that range from documentary to animation, as well as themes that touch upon astronomy, geology and ethnography. While exploring what unites human beings with the nature that surrounds them and the cosmos that encloses them, this film also looks at the impact of colonialism on that same island.
Fern Silva
Portugal / USA

2021, 70'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Romy

Two older classmates take advantage of a P. E class to try, with younger students, a game that will teach them a lesson: “split up along a field, stay within the lines of your individual territories and see what happens”.
Bernardo de Jeurissen
France

2021, 12'

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