23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

INDIELISBOA 2022

Filters

Filters

1970

A protest told from the perspective of the oppressors. In 1970s Poland, rising prices caused workers to strike and street protests grew, creating unbearable tension. The viewer is, however, listening to telephone conversations (which paint the picture of the moment with the help of animations) of the men that are deciding how to suppress the rebellion.

Documentary, 2021, 70'

A Day Out

A trip to the countryside could not be a better plan for a romantic getaway. Just the couple, their bikes and a whole day to enjoy. Except when a storm comes and everything turns into a disaster. The only chance is to face it all together.

Animation, 2021, 11'

Special Screenings

A Film Like This

João Botelho brings Alexandre O’Neill back to the silver screen after Um Adeus Português. In a film with a penchant for the musical and the oneiric, the cast includes Pedro Lacerda, Inês Castel-Branco, Claudio da Silva, Crista Alfaiate, Rita Blanco, Luis Lima Barreto, Soraia Chaves, Joana Santos, Gabriela Barros, Maya Booth, Vera Moura , Maria João Pinho, Dinarte Branco, Pedro Diogo, Isabel Zuaa, Joana Botelho, among others.

Fiction, 2022, 101'

International Competition

A Month After the Night

A month after the night that changed the lives of a group of teenagers, the police ask them to reenact a traumatic circumstance by a lake.

Héloïse Fressoz

Fiction, 2021, 22'

Special Screenings

A Name for What I Am

Maria Lamas became known as a Portuguese feminist political activist, as well as a translator and journalist, who wrote a fundamental work, As Mulheres do Meu País, which intimately and meticulously portrayed the conditions of women in Portugal, in the late 1940s. The film is about the process of writing this book (through the estate, the diaries), but also a reflection on Lamas herself as a figure of Portuguese feminism.

Documentary, 2022, 116'

About a Mother

This story is about a mother who has given so much that it looks like she has nothing left… but life opens up new opportunities.

Dina Velikovskaya

Animation, 2015, 8'

Silvestre Focus

AI (Love)

A Japanese avant-garde film that is a poem-made-cinema for its use of surrealist imagery, presenting a sensual look at the human body.

Takahiko Iimura

Experimental, 1963, 10'

Alaska

An adorable little husky that is the very spirit of the Alaskan Peninsula, with a shadow that is no shadow but actual Northern Lights. Now all he needs is a friend.

Oxana Kuvaldina

Animation, 2020, 7'

Special Screenings

Albufeira

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a promotional film encouraging tourism in the Algarvian city (as is Lisboa, Jardim da Europa), showing, however, the authorial and experimental touch of António Macedo, one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, who was always inclined to escape constrictions of production. This screening taks place within the project FILMar, operated by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the finantial support of the EEAGrants 2020-2024 program

António de Macedo

Fiction / Documentary, 1968, 28'

Silvestre Focus

All You Can Eat

In liberative fashion, or apotheotic exorcism, a collage of moments of male sexual pleasure.

Michael Brynntrup

Fiction / Experimental, 1993, 5'

Silvestre Focus

Allers venues

Among domestic animals, a month is spent in the countryside, in the south of France. A group of friends rents a house and enjoy the summer.

Vivian Ostrovsky

Documentary / Experimental, 1984, 12'

An Ambush in Suspense

The intriguing presentation of a series of objects — such as white plastic chairs — that are placed before the spectator before being destroyed in unusual ways, as with trees collapsing on top of them.

Simon Quéheillard

Experimental, 2021, 17'

National Competition

An Avocado Pit

Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come.

Fiction, 2022, 20'

Anonymous Club

Courtney Barnett, a leading figure in Australian contemporary rock and usually very private, is the focus of this intimate, almost suffocating, portrait of an artist who reveals herself in all her vulnerability and anxiety. Danny Cohen takes out his 16mm camera to follow Barnett over three years — on tour and in the studio, recording her latest album — as she narrates the documentary herself, through small audio notes that punctuate the film.

Documentary, 2021, 83'

Another Day, Another Man

Nothing is more auspicious for a young couple than a pay rise. When they move into a larger apartment, however, the husband is rendered disabled and unable to work. The wife needs to get a job quickly and with the bills pilling up, an unusual proposal appears and, succumbing, she is faced with the unromantic reality of sex work.

Fiction, 1966, 61'

International Competition

Are We There Yet

A robotic voice guides us through archival footage accompanying a hypnotic flashback procedure, creating a dream that takes place during surgery.

Fiction / Experimental, 2021, 11'

At Least I’ve Been Outside

The director is close to a nudist beach with his camera, looking for someone who wants to be filmed. The search is not easy.

Documentary / Experimental, 2021, 5'

Mouth of Madness

Baby Boom

Runar’s life doesn’t seem to be developing in an auspicious way until the moment he swipes right on a beautiful creature from outer space that wants to impregnate him.

Fiction, 2022, 13'

Bad Girls Go to Hell

The first roughie by Doris Wishman, with sexuality as a central subject, is a rape and revenge film, a subgenre of exploitation cinema. In this film, Gigi Darlene is Meg, a housewife who flees Boston for New York after killing the doorman of her building while he tried to rape her. Structured by a long dream sequence, the film follows Meg through several other encounters as she tries to escape prison.

Fiction, 1965, 64'

Batida apresenta: The Almost Perfect Dj

When the dance floors were still taken for granted, Pedro Coquenão (also known as Batida) begins with a satirical portrait of a(n almost) perfect DJ, then takes us on a tour of the alternative music scene of a multicultural Lisbon.

Pedro Coquenão

Documentary / Experimental, 2021, 32'

Be Big

It’s not easy being a tiny monster in a classroom full of huge classmates. Geomdaeng finds it difficult to even be seen or heard, let alone given proper attention. How can he become what he isn’t: big?

Da-young Jeon, Seo-a Han, Min-gyung Kim

Animation, 2019, 4'

Mouth of Madness

Bear

Jack’s girlfriend wakes up angry. Jack pretends not to notice until she leaves the house. It’s all a ruse because he has a surprise planned for her. Let’s see what it is.

Fiction, 2011, 10'

National Competition

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

What makes something natural or artificial? Two couples are dealing with fertility issues, but not in a conventional way. Mirene and André, Carl and Vicente are characters exploring what it’s like to build a biological family.

Pedro Neves Marques

Fiction, 2022, 22'

National Competition

Behind Those Walls

A documentary by Manuel Mozos about the spaces that capture the narratives of the marginalized. Whether madmen or criminals, they are all those who existed delimited and separated: in forts, in prisons, in hospitals or asylums. Their time passed, but the spaces remain.

Documentary, 2022, 64'