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29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2023

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IndieLisboa 2023

The Wall of the Dead

A journey back in time that begins one summer when Arnaud is staying in Paris while all his colleagues have gone on holiday. It’s a lethargic August, shaken up by a visit to the Père Lachaise cemetery, where the names of Parisian soldiers who died in World War I haunt Arnaud. Metaphorically and literally. The ghost of one of these soldiers breaks through the fabric of time to illuminate the meaning of life.

2022, 51'

IndieLisboa 2023

The Wolf and the Dog

A dog and a wolf will have to discover what makes them happier, if with freedom but less abundance or if a regulated life, with more luxuries.

Héloïse Le Bail

2022, 3'

Director’s Cut

IndieLisboa 2023

The Wrong Man

One of Jean-Luc Godard’s favourites. A noir filmmaker in his own right, this Hitchcock feature is based on real events and one of the inspirations for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Here, we deal with a case of mistaken identity. Henry Fonda is Manny, a man who sees his life fall apart when he’s mistaken for a criminal. Film showcased in dialogue with ragtag, by Giuseppe Boccassini.

Alfred Hitchcock

1956, 105'

Special Screenings - Pool Cinema

IndieLisboa 2023

Thermes

Banu, mother and son win a voucher for a spa, but what could be quality time spent with the family turns into a deliberate labyrinthine mismatch, where the water submerges incommunicability.

2010, 24'

IndieLisboa 2023

Things Unheard Of

When the television stops working, a little girl finds a way to cheer up her grandmother. And so the stories begin.

2022, 16'

IndieLisboa 2023

Thread

The sewing machine in dialogue with the cinema projector, where the lines drawn and the sounds mingle in a small cinematographic homage.

2022, 2'

IndieLisboa 2023

Tiger Stabs Tiger

A surreal and slow animation, with adult and child figures, made of collisions, touches and tears.

2022, 22'

IndieLisboa 2023

Tio Kevin

A film about grief and what it’s like to return to a shared and ancestral place after a family member dies.

2022, 18'

European Short Film Network

IndieLisboa 2023

Tirana

In the capital of Albania, the playground is a pyramid, inspiring admiration, but also entertainment in a constant up-and-down.

Austria / Albania / Belgium

2020, 3'

IndieLisboa 2023

Tobacco Barns

Two different summers are being lived in parallel in the same rural town, one of the last in Spain that’s dedicated to drying tobacco. Veja de Granada is, for Nieves, who lives there, a place that suffocates her and from which she wants to escape. But, for now, she keeps entertaining herself between parties, friends and her boyfriend. Vera, a city girl spending the holidays with her grandparents, discovers a fantastic creature from a Miyazaki’s film in the middle of the fields. And everything changes.

2022, 98'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2023

Today, I Will Be The Bread

A delirious animation to the rhythm of a matryoshka that’s being deconstructed, among buns, hands, and the consumption of cigarettes.

2022, 10'

IndieLisboa 2023

Trabalho

A film that in 1978 showed almost only machines. Manual labour was gradually being replaced by technology. With an amazing use of sound and music.

Autor Desconhecido

1978, 20'

IndieLisboa 2023

Trenque Lauquen

COMPETITION It all starts with a mission involving two men, in love with the same woman: to find Laura, who mysteriously disappeared. Rafael and Ezequiel embark on a search that follows the clues of old love letters, an unclassified floral species and a series of other narratives and mysteries that become entangled in this plot.

Laura Citarella

Argentina / Germany

2022, 260'

IndieLisboa 2023

Trip

In a totally literal sense Lilly Crieghtmore embarks on a very personal, and quite romantic, journey that takes her from the US to the UK and back via Iceland and Southern Africa. Her map is unconventional: it’s following psychedelic rock bands, The Black Angels Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sonic Boom ou Roky Erickson. The film is an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the bands she accompanies, which translates into an immersive experience of sounds, rhythms and conversations

Lilly Creightmore

2022, 73'

IndieLisboa 2023

Troubled Times

Through the use of personal archives, the story of the first moments of Angolan independence is told through the voice of Filomena Lopes.

Carlos Tavares Pedro

2022, 21'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2023

Uncle Vakho’s Dream

Vakho lives a secluded, penitent life in a deserted village in the Kazbegi mountains in Georgia. The trauma that haunts him has no resolution.

2022, 22'

Special Screenings - 5L

IndieLisboa 2023

Villeneuve

In the early 1970s, the neighborhood of Villeneuve, in Grenoble, was prepared so that anyone of any class or background could settle in and live in the best possible way. This documentary sees how the generation of children of the first inhabitants relates to what they inherited.

2015, 33'

IndieLisboa 2023

Virile Games

When a football game becomes an odyssey of inventive mutilations.

Jan Švankmajer

1988, 15'

IndieLisboa 2023

VO

Self-driving cars once seemed like a chimera, and these days it’s just a leap forward to something imminent. However, there is still a human side to the training of this kind of cars. On a night shift, the city and electronic data merge into a single landscape.

Nicolas Gourault

2021, 19'

European Short Film Network

IndieLisboa 2023

W O W (Kodak)

Scenes of destruction, five YouTube videos rewound as a commentary on the death (and life) of cinema.

Viktoria Schmid

2016, 2'

IndieLisboa 2023

Watch the Fire or Burn Inside

Between the devastation of forest fires and the exaltation of a woman entranced by fire, the element is put forth as a form of rebellion and purification. Reflection and ecstasy burn in the same fire.

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

2022, 18'

Mouth of Madness

IndieLisboa 2023

Watcher

In her first feature film, Chloe Okuno takes Alfred Hitchcok’s Rear Window and moves it to Bucharest, where a young New Yorker and her husband, Francis, go to live. For him it’s a homecoming, for her it’s a new world. Not knowing the language or even how to ocupy her days, Julia begins to feel the weight of her isolation, but also something else: the constant and oppressive gaze of a neighbour. But no one seems to give credit to her fears.

United Arab Emirates / United States / Romania

2022, 96'

National Competition

IndieLisboa 2023

When I Close My Eyes I See Everything

An impressionist work on the capture of light and its color refractions in a forested landscape becomes a poetic tour.

Alexandre Alagôa

Portugal / Luxembourg

2022, 14'

Special Screenings

IndieLisboa 2023

Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-Liang?

An initiative of the Pompidou Centre, Tsai Ming-Liang explores confinement, his work and inspiration and the need for a good chair for your back.

Tsai Ming-Liang

France / Taiwan

2022, 21'