29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2023

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2023

The Diamond

Stefan needs friends. And nothing like a little cold sore to show he’s a sociable person. When that doesn’t work, he embarks on a plan to get money, and then friends. As he encounters a diamond he can’t get to, he’ll need help from someone with a very particular set of skills.
Vedran Rupic
Sweden

2022, 14'

Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

The Eden of la Ciotat

The first episode of the documentary series Cinémas Mythiques focuses on the Éden theater in the French town of La Ciotat, the first cinema theater in history. Critic Alain Bergala explores the relationship of this city and this cinema to the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, accompanying another pair of filmmaker brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, on a tour of this and other iconic spots, such as the train station where the most famous train arrival was filmed.
Alain Bergala
France

2022, 53'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2023

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

It took the director 14 years to build, between interviews and archives, this homage to the music that came out of Athens, Georgia (USA), in the 1990s, where a bunch of friends and strangers with a passion for psychedelic rock came together to enjoy big houses and low rents and created influential bands full of joy and chaos like Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel or the Apples in Stereo.
C.B. Stockfleth
United States

2022, 93'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2023

The Eternal Daughter

OUT OF COMPETITION The third collaboration between Joanna Hogg and Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter could be seen as a spiritual sequel to the two-parter Souvenir, but with a less operatic, though equally personal, edge. The story is that of a middle-aged filmmaker accompanied by her elderly mother on a hotel stay with a family connection. Here, the daughter wishes to make a film about her mother and the inevitable investigation of the past reveals long hidden ghosts.
Joanna Hogg
United Kingdom / United States

2022, 96'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Fall of the House of Usher

The imagery of Edgar Allan Poe and two cursed siblings (she is almost catatonic, he with his senses inflamed) is transported into the animated world of Jan Å vankmajer.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1980, 15'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Fever of Maria João

A life in isolation filled with stories of adventure outside, until an adventure in the shape of a man knocks at the door, carrying too a story about his past.
Afonso Rapazote, Bernardo Rapazote
Portugal

2023, 30'

Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

The Film You Are About To See

A film that collects the images that are disclaimers or contextualizations of films prior to the film starting: from the notice of being based on a true story to anti-piracy warnings. The links between law and creative freedom may only be incidental. Please be alerted that this film may contain warnings.
Maxime Martinot
France

2023, 11'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Flat

A short film without dialogue where a man is trapped in his apartment and the objects around him are indignant against him.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1968, 13'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Food

Jan Å vankmajer invites us to think about our relationship with food in segments dedicated to the main meals of the day. How easy it is to devour each other.
Jan Å vankmajer
United Kingdom / Czech Republic

1992, 17'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2023

The Fruit Tree

The search for a new home to live in awakens childhood memories that mingle with the desert landscape.
Isabelle Tollenaere
Belgium

2022, 15'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Garden

A fence that is made of people and of which Franta, who has come to visit his old friend Josef, will become a part of.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1968, 19'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Garden of Fauns

A documentary about Nazario Luque, an emblematic figure in Spain’s most transgressive underground comix movement in the 1970s, closely linked to the world of counterculture. His art, archives and life are seen through the prisms of love, desire and loss.
Pol Merchan
Germany / Spain

2022, 24'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Inheritance

Petre tells the police that the elderly man he was taking care of died that morning. Along the way back to the house, he tries to handle the logistics. But he has a surprise waiting for him.
Marian Fărcuț
Romania

2021, 14'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

The Last Egg!

A quiet weekend is the perfect time to bake a cake. But to make a cake you need to break some eggs and there are no eggs nearby. Looking at the chickens, they don’t seem to want to help. But Prune will come up with a plan.
Bertille Rondard
France

2021, 7'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Last Trick

Jan Å vankmajer’s first film, an animation about two mimes — Edgar and Schwarzwald, as flesh-and-blood actors and puppets — who try to perform increasingly extravagant tricks, fighting for the audience’s adoration.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1964, 10'

Focus
IndieLisboa 2023

The Left Behind

Otília is a contemporary Atlas, condemned to sustain all the responsibility instilled in her: the visible, her work commitments, and the invisible, her domestic work and caring for her mother.
Aurélie Oliveira Pernet
Portugal / Switzerland

2022, 21'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Mechanics of Fluids

Gala Hernández López does a job of deep empathy in this documentary about a young incel (“involuntary celibate”, a misogynistic online culture that defines itself as unable to develop romantic relationships) and his suicide letter, “America is responsible for my death” .
Gala Hernández López
France

2022, 39'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Ossuary

A journey through the Sedlec Ossuary, one of the most famous Czech tourist attractions, made up of victims of the black death.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1970, 10'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope

Jan Å vankmajer brings together, in a fantastic and terrifying way, two stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “A Torture by Hope”, respectively.
Jan Å vankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1983, 15'

Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

The Pioneers of Cinema in Portuguese Language

An introduction to the cinema made by Lusophone women, around the world, which functions as the pilot episode of a series that’ll be directed by Luísa Sequeira — who had made a documentary on Bárbara Virgínia (Who is Bárbara Virgínia?, 2017), the first Portuguese director and the first woman to present a feature film at Cannes. The film is narrated by a fictional Virginia, played by Joana Linda, as she also did in Sequeira’s feature film.
Luísa Sequeira
Portugal

2023, 15'

Focus
IndieLisboa 2023

The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

The oldest profession in the world is perhaps one that operates in the most ruthless way, or perhaps in the most fragile. Here, we go back to 1975, to a moment when the sex workers of Lyon decided to give voice to their conditions, stories and demands.
Carole Roussopoulos
France

1975, 46'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The River and the Labyrinth

Two stories, on two banks of the Tagus River, that are perhaps not as disconnected as they seem at first glance.
Ian Capillé
Portugal / Brazil

2023, 24'

Focus
IndieLisboa 2023

The Shift

At first nothing seems to load Anna with worries or weights during a short trip, in the company of her dog. But the environment begins to change when entering the supermarket. While viewing the shelves, the displays, she does mental calculations. Until the call.
Laura Carreira
United Kingdom / Portugal

2020, 9'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

The Silence of the Banana Trees

A father and a daughter separated by something that remains unspoken, but palpable throughout the film. Memories are all we have access to. Memories and letters that point to a less distant future.
Eneos Çarka
Albania / Hungary / Portugal / Belgium

2022, 24'

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