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Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2022

Strawberry Mansion

A lifetime of dreams stored on VHS cassettes. It’s time for an audit, because in this dystopian world not even our dreams are free from the monster of capitalism. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a bit of hope, and a possibility of escape, hidden somewhere in an oneiric landscape. When government agent James Preble (Kentucker Audley) meets artist Arabella “Bella” Isadora (Penny Fuller), that’s exactly what happens: when you open the door to the dream world, a thousand possibilities open up.

Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney

2021, 91'

Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2022

Sucking Diesel

An attempted robbery and a misunderstanding. After a quiet night, Marion wasn’t expecting her shift to end like this.

2022, 10'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2022

Super Natural

Inhabiting the blurred boundaries between documentary and fiction, this is a film that experiments with form — between curiosities, video clips and confessions — which is not surprising since it started out as a spectacle for the stage and not for the screen. Madeira’s autochthonous lusciouness is where the possibilities open up to think about everything we consider to be “natural” and whether we should expand the notion to encompass much more complexity.

2022, 85'

IndieLisboa 2022

Superperson

A super-person just needs a super-place to get in costume.

2017, 1'

IndieLisboa 2022

Tales of the Salt Water

Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, a young boy will also say goodbye to his family and the house where they live.

Alexandra Petit, Antoine Carre, Martin Robic, Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, Tamerlan Bekmurzayev

2021, 8'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2022

Terra Femme

A film made up of amateur and home movies, made on trips, by women from the 1920s to the 1940s, who also presented them publicly, with their own commentary regarding what was being seen on the big screen. Stephens curates images from private and public archives to build a vision of the female cinematographic gaze and its relation to the very spirit of the traveler.

Courtney Stephens

2021, 62'

Silvestre Focus

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Thank You, I Have Been Very Pleased

Mimi Minus is filmed in the middle of the masturbatory act, while the camera moves away until her body blends with the landscape.

Mara Mattuschka

1987, 2'

Silvestre Focus

IndieLisboa 2022

The

With the potential to strike fear into the hearts of the toughest, this experimental film creates a collage of horror films to tell a story where “suspense” and “shock” are the keywords.

Dieter Kovacic, Billy Roisz

2015, 13'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2022

The Bath

A meditation on the magic and danger of taking a bath.

Maria Inês Gonçalves

2022, 8'

Silvestre Focus

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The Catalogue

A utopia of consumerism in which we are reduced to our tastes and characteristics so that we are better sold what we (don’t?) want.

2004, 6'

National Competition

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The Days In Our Life

There aren’t enough hours in the day for everything Lena has and would love to do. In a bakery at dawn, in a supermarket during the rest of the day, nothing seems secure enough to keep her afloat. And then there’s her daughter. And her grief. Who she is fades away a little.

Janine Gonçalves

2022, 26'

IndieLisboa 2022

The Disobedient

Those who rebel against authority figures disobey. This film echoes “Cordobazo” — a popular rebellion in Cordoba against the Argentine military dictatorship in 1969 — through the story of Alicia, a trolleybus driver who joins an insurrection against an oppressive regime.

2022, 62'

National Competition

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The End Before Me

The director takes us on a journey, in more ways than one, in which she investigates old photographs and home videos of her parents, trying to get to know the people they were before she existed.

2022, 30'

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The Fantastic Flying Competition

If you’re a bird, you can’t miss the most important competition for flying beings there is. But the teams won’t play fair and it will take a lot of care to figure out who the real winner is.

2021, 5'

Special Screenings - 5L

IndieLisboa 2022

The Fiancés

A tender film in which Liliana and Giovanni are engaged and, at the moment when everything should fall into place, fate intervenes. He accepts a job far from Milan, in Sicily, to try to make a better life for the two of them. But separation erodes the relationship.

1963, 77'

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The Girl From Dak Lak

In the countryside, the days were always the same, which led Súóng to go to Saigon, the city full of people and infinite possibilities. But when she gets a job at a small eatery, with two other girls — who also live there, together — she gets into a passive routine. Nothing seems to exist outside of the restaurant. But her inner life isn’t so carefree and there is a battle inside her that she will have to resolve.

Mai Huyền Chi, Pedro Roman

Vietnam / Spain

2021, 86'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2022

The Great Movement

We’re in Bolivia, with Elder, on the way to La Paz, the third largest city in the country. Elder wants to get his job back, but ends up losing his health. Shortness of breath and asphyxiation are the troubles that haunt him and the help he needs may be unorthodox. As he worsens, Mamá Pancha sets him out to find Max, a witch hermit.

Bolivia / France / Switzerland / Qatar

2021, 85'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2022

The History of the Civil War

The Soviet pioneer of documentary film presents turbulent episodes of the civil war that followed the Russian revolution of the early 20th century and includes images of historical figures such as Trotsky. This film was considered lost (or reused in other works by the director), but it is finally presented to the public, a century later, given the reconstruction work by the academic Nikolai Izvolov.

2021, 94'

IndieLisboa 2022

The House

In Domek, a family leaves their home and thus begins the house’s journey to find its family.

Veronika Zacharová

2016, 5'

IndieLisboa 2022

The Immoral Three

In true Charlie’s Angels style, the immoral three are half-sisters (separated at birth because they were given up for adoption) whose mission is to avenge their mother’s death — and, consequently, obtain the inheritance that she left them. The mother in question is Jane from Double Agent 73, although she is no longer played by Chesty Morgan.

1975, 75'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2022

The Kegelstatt Trio

The Portuguese director brings to the big screen the only play written by Éric Rohmer, French filmmaker of the Nouvelle Vague, in a romantic comedy in which the theme is not marriage but remarriage, joining the “Rohmerian” formula of episodes scattered around four seasons. Rita Durão and Pierre Léon are two people that share a romantic history who find each other again and again, rekindling their passion.

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Portugal / Spain

2022, 127'

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The Kite

In The Kite, we learn, through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, that none of us are here forever and also that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

2019, 13'

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The little pirate

A tiny pirate rows on his boat, and nothing can stop him, not even whales, rain or icebergs.

Ornella Macchia, Bruno Tondeur, Margot Reumont, Gwendoline Gamboa, Hippolythe Cuppilard

2017, 3'

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The Lost Record

The Lost Record is a documentary but also an essay, a fantastic tale that brings together rock’n’roll and science fiction. Alexandra Cabral and Ian F Svenonius, former lead singer of The Make-up and Nation of Ulysses, offer this meditation on the power of objects that we think are important. What do we do when we find something that is lost and that fascinates us? Do we keep it to ourselves or do we give it to the world as well?

Alexandra Cabral, Ian F Svenonius

2021, 76'