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Alpha Kings

A group of boys discover the easy money to be made on the Only Fans platform. They feel they don’t have to do much to be in a better financial position than their parents. But the naivety of youth has not evaded them yet.
Enrique Pedráza Botero, Faye Tsakas
United States

2022, 15'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Amiko

In this film, we spend time getting to know Amiko, a young girl with a way of looking at the world that makes her unique among her schoolmates and even her family — father, mother expecting a new baby and her older brother. However, her frank and somewhat eccentric way of seeing life, resistant to the decorous way of behaving of those who live around her, will bring some challenges when her inner circle is faced with a tragedy.
Yusuke Morii
Japan

2022, 104'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2023

An Ode

An autobiographical project that starts from a rediscovery and a change of perspective towards the positive and negative facets when it comes to sensitivity and sentimentality.
Inês França
Portugal

2023, 6'
National Competition
Smart7
IndieLisboa 2023

Índia

Three generations of Portuguese men — Tiago, Raul and Manuel — who live between dreams, lost glories and existential crises find their lives intertwined with Karen, a Brazilian woman who wanders around Lisbon, while sending letters that detail her wanderings. A film in opposition to the idea of a gentrified city.
Telmo Churro
Portugal

2022, 123'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

Animated Self-Portraits (segment Svankmajer)

A challenge between colleagues: David Ehrlich, an animator, asks others (from Japan to Yugoslavia) to make their own portrait with the tools they use, and Jan Švankmajer’s answer  is this film.
Jan Švankmajer
Czechoslovakia

1989, 1'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2023

Aqueronte

A film that follows a group of anonymous passengers crossing a river on a ferry. Between conversations to pass the time and sleep, time runs out, or is suspended, on the journey.
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Spain

2023, 26'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2023

As Ruínas no interior

It’s the Second World War, during Easter 1943. A bourgeois family enjoys their holidays, a Belgian family takes refuge from the war. Until the children find the survivors of a fighter plane that fell into the sea. An allegorical sci-fi film that emerges during PREC (and, in the meantime, forgotten). Now shown in a new digital copy, the result of a carte blanche to Rui Nogueira, who programmed the film as director of the Jeune Cinéma festival.
José de Sá Caetano
Portugal

1976, 110'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Astrakan 79

Astrakhan is the Russian city, 1979 the year remembered. A year and a half and a journey covering many kilometers, from Moscow to the Caspian Sea, to Azerbaijan. The beginning of the voyage is the search for a haven. Martim’s parents, who was 15 years old then, are militants of the Communist Party and see the Soviet Union as an ideal to aspire to. At the age of 57, Martim recalls his clandestine life, the studies and passions left behind and the ideal lost to time.
Catarina Mourão
Portugal

2023, 64'
European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2023

At the Edge of the Curtain

A gym as the setting for a series of performances by three women whose relationships range from desire to ambivalence.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Austria

2022, 10'
Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2023

Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace

Jan Švankmajer is the subject of this documentary, which honors his cinematographic work and his mastery, with whom the filmmakers spent three years distilling thoughts on topics such as his fetishes or his views on humanity. It is a three-pronged film, which needs two structural blocks of Švankmajer’s life: Jaromír Kallista, his producer, and Eva Švankmajerová, his wife and muse, who appears in the film through the doors of memory, dreams, and archives.
Adam Ol'ha, Jan Daňhel
Slovakia / Czech Republic

2020, 117'
European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2023

Atlantic 35

A trip to the Atlantic Ocean with a 35mm camera that brings a film in black and white.
Manfred Schwaba
Austria

2015, 1'
European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2023

Austrian Pavilion

Through light inscriptions on physical structures or the creation of an apparatus that is a pinhole camera, Fleischmann creates Austria’s own pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Philipp Fleischmann
Austria / Italy

2019, 5'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Autoerotic

If on a foggy night a blonde woman. This is not exactly how Italo Calvino’s novel begins, but it’s how this meeting between the woman and two young men in a garden somewhere, on the outskirts of a city, begins.
João Martinho
Portugal

2022, 13'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Backflip

The idea is simple: try to do a backflip. But in order not to get hurt, the easiest thing is to create a digital avatar with the help of a processor and a machine learning system. So the avatar learns to do a backflip in no time. And nobody gets hurt.
Nikita Diakur
Germany / France

2022, 13'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Bad Living | Living Bad

A diptych by João Canijo that went through the most recent Berlin Festival: Mal Viver in the main competition, having received the Silver Bear, and Viver Mal in the Encounters section. Canijo, who has always shot difficult material, explores what happens in mother-daughter relationships where love is lacking. With its double perspective, a film in two parts, the anchor is a hotel. Where Mal Viver focuses on owners, Viver Mal focuses on guests.
João Canijo
Portugal / France

2023, 252'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

Balcony Cacophony

A rich old woman in love with the luxurious gardens of her mansion is forced to move into a tiny apartment. And she still has to deal, for the first time, with a strange neighbor with strange hobbies.
Quentin Haberham
Netherlands

2022, 5'
Special Screenings
IndieLisboa 2023

Bauprobe

An exploration of the language of scenography and of the maquette, in all its tactility, but rebelling against the presence of the human body. A theatre in miniature, only in the cinema.
João Calixto
Portugal

2022, 25'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2023

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

“Can I kick it?” is the question and song that most naturally come to mind when talking about A Tribe Called Quest. Recognized as the fathers of a whole new facet of hip hop, capable of capturing the form and culture of what it’s supposed to be, with party records with a social conscience. This documentary tells the story of the band — of their achievements, musical innovations and dramas — weaving a narrative that includes multiple voices.
Michael Rapaport
United States

2011, 98'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Bed Days

The summer holidays take Inês to the house where she grew up. Recovering from a recent family mourning, we follow her return to the city she lives in. A heat wave follows her night walks.
Tatiana Ramos
Portugal

2023, 20'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2023

Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

COMPETITION Margaret Tait’s life revolved around cinema and poetry. In this documentary, Luke Fowler takes a vast collection of archival material and unpublished and undiscovered correspondence and notebooks to weave together an image of and an original tribute to the Scottish director and poet, blending their sensibilities.
Luke Fowler
United Kingdom

2022, 61'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Between Light and Nowhere

Cosmos, dolphins, loneliness and techno. Butterflies, lovers and raves. We close our eyes, and travel the entire universe in a single night.
Joana de Sousa
Portugal

2023, 21'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2023

Birth of the oases

Opposites sometimes complement each other and that’s the case between these unlikely friends: a snake and a camel, whose blood boils at very different temperatures.
Marion Jamault
France

2022, 9'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2023

Black Mouse

A documentary that explores the construction of a structure, in the 1960s, designed by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, Lebanon. A project that is seen with ambiguity by the locals and that is “explained” by a fictional audio recording of the architect.
Ahmad Naboulsi
Lebanon

2022, 21'
Smart7
IndieLisboa 2023

Black Stone

In this humorous fake documentary full of humour, based on the large number of “ghost workers” in the Greek civil service, we meet Haroula, who has not seen one of her sons, Panos, for two days. The disappearance leads to an appearance, that of a film crew that comes looking for Panos… because he has been accused of fraud. What follows is a metaphorical wild-goose hunt, in which Haroula takes her eldest son, Lefteris, and his wheelchair and sets off in search of the truth.
Spiros Jacovides
Greece

2022, 87'

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