IndieLisboa 2023 — IndieLisboa

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

INDIELISBOA 2023

Filters

Filters

“Years ago, I was working on a movie…”

We’re alone in a car with the director and Tom Jarmusch, Jim’s brother, who tells us stories — about the 1990s, about the city, about cinema — as we drive through New York.

Marion Naccache

2022, 45'

Special Screenings

1976

Three years have passed since the military coup of Augusto Pinochet and Chile has established itself as a military dictatorship. But there is still a network of resistance. Carmen, a middle-aged upper middle class woman, visits the renovation of her summer house and comes across a request for help from the local priest: a young man from the resistance needs medical attention and she is his only hope.

Manuela Martelli

Chile / Argentina / Qatar

2022, 97'

European Short Film Network

2Heim

A house in Vienna became a home that will soon be abandoned, these being the last days, which pass by in the blink of an eye.

2018, 2'

45th Parallel

A library that inhabits two sides of a border, as a space that houses stories as close as they are far apart and that becomes a meeting point, in a central way. A reflection on the (im)permeability of borders.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

2022, 15'

Special Screenings - Pool Cinema

5 mètres 80

It is not possible to imagine a more graceful animal jumping from a board to a swimming pool than a giraffe and the ones in this film present us with the most acrobatic of jumps.

Nicolas Deveaux

2012, 5'

Silvestre Focus

A Almadraba Atuneira

An ethnographic documentary in the form of a tribute to the work of the Algarve tuna fishermen, and their families, during the last “almadraba” on the island of Abóbora, before the village was destroyed by the sea.

António Campos

1961, 26'

Silvestre Focus

A Canção da Terra

One of the most memorable fights in Portuguese cinema. But it all starts in Porto Santo, Madeira, at a time when a drought brings great difficulties to the population. Between economic worries and a love triangle, the dice are set for an unprecedented conflict.

Jorge Brum do Canto

1938, 98'

Mouth of Madness

A Folded Ocean

In a loving relationship between two people, physical and emotional closeness is one of the fundamental characteristics. But what if the physical closeness was such that they melded together, one into the other?

Benjamin Brewer

2023, 14'

A Game with Stones

Clocks and stones in a symphony to the sound of a xylophone, in a stop motion animation in black and white.

Jan Švankmajer

1965, 8'

Special Screenings

A History of the Film Spectator

Normally, the spectator is thought of as being in a situation of passivity in relation to what is happening on the screen, but this film wants to deepen this idea: what types of spectators do we become? How has the relationship between spectator and screen evolved? What’s the history that can be traced?

José Filipe Costa

2023, 60'

A History Of The World According To Getty Images

A documentary about archival images and who controls, uses and profits from it. The film begins with the history of the world through images controlled by the company Getty Images, but it is interested in the control that it exercises over History, its archive and its accessibility.

Norway / United Kingdom

2022, 18'

A Quiet Week in the House

There is a dilapidated house in the countryside that has become the obsession of a man who decides to spend a week there, trying to peek into the various corners of the house and the surreal way in which the objects that inhabit it behave.

Jan Švankmajer

1969, 13'

International Competition

A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine had a tempestuous love affair in the 19th century that lasted almost two years and ended with a pistol shot and two years in a Belgian prison. This film reimagines this relationship through a modern lens and with a splash of color.

2022, 16'

Silvestre Focus

A Via Áurea

A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasco Santana in a story where the dissatisfied Manuel wonders why he doesn’t get rich just from the efforts of his work.

Autor Desconhecido

1930, 10'

Aaaah!

Screaming “aaaah!” cand mean a lot of different things. It could be a cry of joy, surprise, or pain, or even a shout of rage. It might even be a song. There’s always a new way to… aaaah!

2022, 5'

International Competition

About the Clouds

A film with four central stories that portray a middle class and its relationship with work, whether because of its precariousness, instability, the weight of routine or the illusions still cherished. An urban fable where a cook, an unemployed technician, a nurse in a public hospital, and a bookseller only meet through the black and white gaze of the camera, amid the rain of the passing days.

María Aparicio

2022, 143'

International Competition

Achewiq, The Song of the Brave Women

In the north of Algeria, we find a region, Kabylie, where the Berber culture is linked to its traditions. But last summer was hard and a lot of suffering resulted from a fire. Now women deal with loss through music.

2022, 16'

National Competition

Adrian’s Tears

From archived images, an unlikely story is woven about a boy who couldn’t stop crying, creating both floods and paradises.

Miguel Moraes Cabral

Portugal / Belgium

2023, 18'