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Spin Cycle

A pair of socks should constantly spend their time together. But in the middle of a machine wash, each sock goes in a different direction. They get separated. But they’re not alone because there are plenty of other clothes they never noticed before. Will their friendship survive?
Gurli Bachmann
Germany

2022, 7'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2023

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Anton Corbijn, known, among other works, for the film Control, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, makes his documentary debut with a dive into the work of the design studio Hipgnosis — composed by the brilliant Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell —, responsible for the iconic album covers (huge productions, with no regard for costs) of everyone’s favourite bands in the 1970s, such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, among many others.
Anton Corbijn
United Kingdom

2022, 101'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2023

Stéphane

Tim was just trying to make a short film when he comes across the strange and bombastic Stéphane (starring Lucas Pastor), who insists on being part of his film. Convinced that he has the perfect subject for his short, Tim follows him on an increasingly eccentric adventure that is both hilarious and terrifying.
Lucas Pastor, Timothée Hochet
France

2022, 79'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2023

Stéphane

Tim was just trying to make a short film when he comes across the strange and bombastic Stéphane (starring Lucas Pastor), who insists on being part of his film. Convinced that he has the perfect subject for his short, Tim follows him on an increasingly eccentric adventure that is both hilarious and terrifying.
Lucas Pastor, Lucas Pastor, Timothée Hochet
France

2022, 79'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

Staging Death

A montage of all the deaths that iconic actor Udo Kier has played in five decades of appearing in films and television series. From deaths in blockbusters and auteur films to children’s series, Kier has died in every possible way on screen, and this is Jan Soldat’s tribute to him. And death becomes him.
Jan Soldat
Austria

2022, 8'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2023

Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer

“Subotnick” is the name of a Caribou song, but it is also Morton’s last name, the ninety-year-old composer and pioneer of electronic music best known for the album Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), which continues to be discovered by new generations decades later. Between old records, which explore his extensive career, and conversations in the first (and third) person, we meet a man guided by instinct (and by his arm).
Robert Fantinatto
Canada

2022, 87'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Suddenly TV

A revolution in Sudan is filmed twice: by the imaginary camera of the interviewer and by the documentary camera of the director of the documentary we are watching. In both, the urgency of the regime’s violence is reflected.
Roopa Gogineni
Qatar / Sudan

2022, 18'
Special Screenings - Pool Cinema
IndieLisboa 2023

Summer Bummer

Sometimes horror lurks in the places where we least expect it. These can be on the street, inside the house or in the pool, at the back. An animation about a man who imagines everything that could go wrong before taking a dip.
Bill Plympton
United States

2013, 2'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

Summer Friends

Two friends who have been inseparable for fifteen years who, one day, meet a girl, Lucie, who is spending her holidays in their village. The three grow closer and the dynamics change.
Maxime Hermet
France

2021, 24'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

Sunflower

A sunflower unlike the others decides to change the way things are supposed to happen. Forget the sun, there’s the moon!
Natalia Chernysheva
France

2023, 4'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

Surviving Life

A film that combines filmed reality and cut-out animation to tell the double life of a married man who meets the literal woman of his dreams, dreams that he manages to visit with the help of a ritual. As he learns more about his past, he will have to decide between staying in the dream world or the waking world.
Jan Švankmajer
Czech Republic / Japan / Slovakia

2010, 105'
IndieJúnior
Special Screenings - Pool Cinema
IndieLisboa 2023

Swimming Pool

The protagonist ardently awaits the arrival of the night, the perfect time for when he will be able to jump into a public swimming pool, which will be deserted by then. Except it won’t be strictly deserted and he might meet his great love that way.
Alexandra Hetmerová
Czech Republic

2010, 7'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

Swop – Dentist

Going to the dentist is scary. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could switch heads? Someone else could go for us! When Sef trades with Wesley strange things happen.
Job , Joris & Marieke
Netherlands

2022, 10'
European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2023

t t t touch me

When someone’s skin can become a cell phone screen and all gestures analogous to digital communication become analogue.
Raphael Reichl
Austria

2019, 3'
Special Screenings - Pool Cinema
IndieLisboa 2023

Ten Meter Tower

Ten Meter Tower makes us feel the vertigo.
Maximilien Van Aertryck, Axel Danielson
Sweden

2016, 16'
Special Screenings
IndieLisboa 2023

The Adults

Michael Cera, known for comedies like Superbad or Arrested Development, stars in a melancholic and intimate film, where Eric, back to his hometown for an ostensibly short visit, will have to deal with his two sisters and the temptation of a local poker game. It’s as if the real adults aren’t there, leaving these siblings to grapple with the question of whether they’ll ever really communicate.
Dustin Guy Defa
United States

2023, 91'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2023

The Adventures of Gigi the Law

COMPETITION Gigi’s life doesn’t differ much from day to day, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a routine full of delight. This, however, is shaken when events with a bitter, sinister aftertaste begin to taint the charming landscape. Two suicides, a police investigation and the occasional burst into song show a pleasant community with one foot between reality and fantasy.
Alessandro Comodin
Italy / France / Belgium

2022, 102'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

A tribute to Jan Švankmajer, where a puppet teaches a boy the art of perspective and the illusory trick.
Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
United Kingdom

1984, 14'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Castle of Otranto

A forerunner in mockumentary art and an adaptation of Horace Walpole’s homonymous gothic novel.
Jan Švankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1973, 17'
Focus
IndieLisboa 2023

The Chimney Swift

Small children who become chimney sweeps due to their privileged stature and who grow up to continue a vicious cycle of complicity with child labor.
Frédéric Schuld
Germany

2020, 5'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Dam

Maher is the protagonist of this story that takes place on the banks of the Nile in Sudan, dealing with the imagination of this brick worker living in exile in Darfur. Days of exhausting work are punctuated by the exercise of a peculiar post-work activity: the construction of a structure made of mud and other materials. Everything takes place in the desolation of normality until the day his creation disappears.
Ali Cherri
France / Sudan / Lebanon / Germany / Serbia

2022, 80'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Damned Yard

Adaptation of Franz Kafka’s short story A Fratricide. Mr. Wese and Schmar are brothers, but soon they will see the love of Mrs. Wese as the limit of brotherly affection. And Pallas observes everything, impassive and serene.
André Gil Mata
Portugal

2023, 44'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia

A film that Jan Švankmajer made for the BBC, when it asked for an animation about the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1990. Czech history from 1948 to 1989 is presented through clay figures that emerge from a bust of Stalin, open on an operating table.
Jan Švankmajer
United Kingdom

1990, 10'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

The Devil Queen

António Carlos Fontoura directed this queer horror film in 1974, which has since become a cult classic (now presented in a restored copy). The Queen Diaba (played by Milton Gonçalves, 1933-2022) is the one who controls, from the backstage of a brothel, the organised crime in the city. With matte eye shadow and a razor ready to dominate (legs or traitors), her authority over the cartel will be called into question and war is imminent.
Antonio Carlos da Fontoura
Brazil

1973, 99'

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