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IndieLisboa 2021

Sambizanga

We are in 1961, at the beginning of the war for Angolan independence. Domingos Xavier is a revolutionary arrested by the Portuguese military and taken to a prison in Sambizanga. His wife, Maria, seeks him out, fearing he may have been subjected to torture, or even death. A film that shows the liberation of Angola through the eyes of a woman.
Sarah Maldoror
France / Angola

1973, 102'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l’utopie

Sarah Maldoror’s work is politicized and permeated by the struggle for freedom and the affirmation of Blackness. The film uses testimonials from Greg Germain, Maurice Pons, Suzanne Lipinska and the director herself, outlining her life and her activism.
Anne-Laure Folly
Togo / France

1998, 26'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2021

Scala Milan A.C.

A journey from the Parisian outskirts to the Scala operatic theater in Milan. A film that takes a rap by Archie Shepp (American jazz saxophonist and playwright) to build a melodious reflection on social inclusion in the suburbs of Paris.
Sarah Maldoror
France / Italy

2003, 17'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Seeking Aline

Aline Sitoe Diatta is a female Senegalese icon of resistance to French colonialism. Rokhaya Marieme Balde is the director who returns home, to Dakar, in order to make a film about this historical figure.
Rokhaya Marieme Balde
Switzerland / Senegal

2020, 27'
Silvestre Focus
IndieLisboa 2021

Septieme Fraction

The seventh of a film series in seven sequences. Each with a specific pattern and a reference to a political text. In this sequence, space for reflection is given under the sign of Walter Benjamin.
Guillaume Mazloum
France

2015, 7'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2021

She Dies Tomorrow

A film that combines psychological horror with absurd humor. In this film, Amy is a girl who has just bought a house, but is fully convinced that she will die the next day. This is an idea that passes to her friend Jane, after she visits her, and who, in turn, infects other people with the same ominous thought.
Amy Seimetz
USA

2020, 86'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Shiva Baby

Shiva is a weeklong period of mourning for the Jewish religion and also an opportunity to honor those who have passed away as well as their family. This acerbic comedy puts a young Jewish woman in the thankless position of having to face the most claustrophobic shiva possible, where she finds herself confronted with an ex-girlfriend, a secret sugar daddy and multiple snooping relatives.
Emma Seligman
USA

2020, 77'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2021

Siesta Club

Adolescence is a moment in limbo, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, always on the threshold of something: the end of classes, the end of summer, the beginning of the rest of your life. While we wait, we kill time, we meet someone, we throw a party.
Luís Tovar de Lemos
Portugal

2021, 12'
Director's Cut in Context
IndieLisboa 2021

Silver River

A western with Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan that tells the story of the soldier Mike McComb, the determined Georgia Moore and Silver City, where McComb opens a thriving saloon. The film, based on a story by Stephen Longstreet, is known for not having an ending — declared as finished by the studio before it was completed, due to the bad behavior of its stars that led to increased production costs.
Raoul Walsh
USA

1948, 110'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Silvestre

A protagonist in limbo, with a precarious work situation, a temporary home location. And a hidden facet of his life that he reveals to few.
Rúben Gonçalves
Portugal

2021, 34'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Simon Calls

Composed of three chapters and filmed over five years, encompassing different formats, Simon Chama deals with the protagonist’s response to his parents’ divorce and how it shapes his future.
Marta Sousa Ribeiro
Portugal

2020, 84'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Since Time Immemorial

With a theatrical staging, this film gives voice to 13 women who express – through facts, myths, opinions, humor – their views regarding the conditions that surround childbirth in French hospitals and the treatment of women in such a vulnerable moment.
Clary Demangeon, Jeanne Delafosse
France

2020, 14'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Sing Along

Kátia’s world is the stage. It’s where she lights up, where she feels alive, and singing is how she fulfills her purpose in life. A documentary that shows the woman behind the karaoke and the people who fill her life and her audience.
Muniz Filho, Sávio Fernandes
Brazil

2020, 19'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2021

Sisters with Transistors

A healthy historical review, narrated by Laurie Anderson, that puts “girls to the front” when it comes to the impact and contributions of women in the history of electronic music. The contributions of the experiments by Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani and Laurie Spiegel are mapped throughout this documentary – contextualizing their work regarding the political, cultural and social movements of the 20th century.
Lisa Rovner
United Kingdom / France

2020, 84'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Ski

Bariloche is a mecca in Patagonia, Argentina, for those who want to ski. But the gaze of the film is interested in contrasting tourists and Argentines, happy for the chance to take advantage of the white slopes, and the indigenous population that works so that others can enjoy the winter sport. There is an implicit exclusion and the film inhabits this dichotomy.
Manque La Banca
Argentina / Brazil

2021, 74'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Sleep Tight

A delicate film, like a dollhouse, that shows a touching connection between grandmother and grandson and how both function as each other’s safe havens — especially when a naughty character tries to instill some fears in them.
Catarina Ruivo
Portugal

2021, 21'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Snip, Snap, Snut and the Colours

Snip, Snap and Snut are fun characters that inhabit a clay world. They have already had a television series and a previous film, but they return by the hand of their directors to explore the magic of colors.
Cecilia Actis, Mia Hulterstam
Sweden

2020, 5'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

So Foul a Sky

Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, this is a road movie across Venezuela’s borders, portraying a crumbling country. The protagonists are pirates and pilgrims navigating an oppressive atmosphere, with oil as the object of desire on the black market and the potential cause of a political and humanitarian crisis.
Álvaro Fernandéz-Pulpeiro
Colombia / Spain / Venezuela / United Kingdom

2021, 84'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Sopro

A documentary that spends time with Marion and Peter, a Dutch couple who lost their farm in the fire that devastated Pedrógão Grande in the summer of 2017. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, they try to rebuild what they can, with the little they have.
Pocas Pascoal
Portugal

2021, 43'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2021

Souad

Souad lives in a city on the Nile Delta, in Egypt, Zagazig. To her parents, she lives a conservative and veiled life. But the 19-year-old girl leads another life online, freer and without the constant scrutiny of her family life. Here, the affection we feel is towards Rabab, her younger sister. It’s her that sets out in search of answers, when Souad’s double life results in tragic consequences.
Ayten Amin
Egypt / Tunisia / Germany

2021, 96'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2021

Souvenir

Father and daughter, together on a trip over the treetops, on the high seas, but also in the deep ocean, on a bike ride for two, in a hot air balloon, always moving, even into space. But a different space, that of their memories.
Cristina Vilches Estella, Paloma Canonica
Spain

2020, 14'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2021

Spree

Joe Kerry (the nice guy from the popular Stranger Things tv show) is Kurt Kunkle, a driver obsessed with the idea that if you’re not documenting yourself, you don’t exist. In an attempt to become a viral hit, he films himself killing passengers. Told in the first person, it is a hybrid between comedy and horror, with a message of caution when it comes to social media.
Eugene Kotlyarenko
USA

2020, 93'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2021

Stories Keep Me Awake at Night

A common family nucleus, but with a lunar aspect: a domineering father, a distant mother, a teenage daughter unsure of her boyfriend, and the smallest one, perhaps in an identity limbo. Each of them overflowing with their own frustrations and desires.
Jérémy van der Haegen
Belgium / France

2020, 30'
Special Screenings
IndieLisboa 2021

Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Musician and DJ (and composer and journalist, among others) Questlove signs — in his own name, as Ahmir Khalib Thompson — this documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The festival lasted six weeks and featured performances by Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone. But it got lost in the collective memory.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
USA

2021, 117'

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