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IndieLisboa 2024

Following the Sound

A filmmaker who focuses on the art of looking and gives his characters the space to do just that, to observe the other in their stillness and fullness. This story interweaves the narratives of two people at two points in time, and they meet again when the young Haru, who works in a bookshop, pretends to ask for directions from the older Yukiko, whose melancholy captivates her intensely.
Kyoshi Sugita
Japan

2023, 84'
Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2024

Foremost by Night

Víctor Iriate’s first feature film, Foremost by Night explores a particularly painful problem: the forced adoption of children by the Franco regime in Spain. In this film, the plot revolves around Vera’s search for her biological son, whom she gave up for adoption because she couldn’t afford to raise him. When she enquires at the necessary institutions, she is told that her file doesn’t exist. Her investigation leads her to Cora and her adopted son Egoz.
Víctor Iriarte
Spain / Portugal / France

2023, 109'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2024

Forever Here

Alexandre experiences his first mourning with his uncle’s death. Not knowing how to deal with the pain of those who stay, he faces the situation in his own way. 
Daniel Borga
Portugal

2024, 17'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2024

Game Rules

This is an important tournament and the first for this very young handball team. We see the camaraderie between players, as well as the anticipation of future possibilities. But who can and can’t play is called into question, placing one of the participants in trouble.
Christian Zetterberg
Sweden

2024, 12'
Director’s Cut
IndieLisboa 2024

Germaine Dulac’s Illustrated Records

These “illustrated records” from the 1930s are music videos avant la lettre. An endeavour by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé (with support by CNC) that recovers a forgotten production by the pioneer of French impressionism, starting to pair, only in 2023, the recordings with the original songs. o   Celles qui s’en font (Germaine Dulac) © 1930 – Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathéo   Ceux qui ne s’en font pas (Germaine Dulac) © 1930 – Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathéo   Un peu de rêve sur le faubourg (Germaine Dulac) © 1930 – Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé The restorations carried out by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in 2023 were based on the original nitrate negatives held in its collections. 4K work carried out at the L’Image Retrouvée laboratory, with the support of the CNC.
Germaine Dulac
France

1930, 23'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Gold Songs

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, he decides to make a change. This will lead Domingos on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country. Neusia stays home. Shortly after, she has news. For technical reasons, it will not be possible to show the film with descriptive subtitles (LSE). 
Ico Costa
Portugal / France

2024, 104'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2024

Golden Shower

Sheila, a young Brazilian woman, receives an unexpected sexual proposal from her Portuguese boyfriend.
Stella Carneiro
Portugal

2024, 12'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Grandmamauntsistercat

Zuza Banasinska used materials from the Polish Educational Archive to talk about the female condition as something fantastic and mythical, seen through the eyes of a child. The most remarkable editing work in a film full of ingenious ideas. 
Zuza Banasinska
Poland / Netherlands

2024, 23'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Green Eyes

The myth of Pygmalion has a new interpretation here. A man who has lost his wife has only his memories and some videotapes that help him remember every detail about her. He wants, of course, to recreate her in all her glory. And now all he’s missing are her green eyes.
Sacha Teboul
France

2023, 30'
National Competition
Smart7
IndieLisboa 2024

Greice

Greice, a 21-year-old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts University in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with a mysterious guy, Afonso. The couple is accused of a strange accident that occurs at the students’ welcoming night party. Greice needs to return to Fortaleza. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering the problems in which she was involved, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.
Leonardo Mouramateus
Portugal / Brazil

2024, 110'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Hands in the Fire

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is her thesis on Reality in Cinema. The last house she visits it’s a more isolated house, hidden between the vineyards. She’s enchanted by everything that seems genuine and, in her opinion, true. Until one day. Her touching candour leads her blindly to the depths of horror. 
Margarida Gil
Portugal

2024, 109'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Histories of Smugglers

Tourém is a frontier village on the border between Portugal and Spain. It has a reputation as a “smugglers’ nest”, with many villagers involved in the business, in the past. They smuggled goods due to shortages at the time. They risked their lives for a living.
Agnes Meng
Portugal

2024, 20'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2024

Hoofs on Skate

It’s winter, there’s snow and ice: there’s nothing better than taking a friend and going skating on top of a totally frozen lake and making the most of it. But when cracks and fissures begin to appear, something mysterious reveals itself.
Ignas Meilunas
Lithuania

2024, 12'
Cinema at the Pool
IndieLisboa 2024

Hors Piste

A helicopter, two rescuers, a mountain full of snow and a… terrible mishap. Suddenly, everything seems comically hopeless. But there’s a solution to everything.
Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Mallet
France

2018, 6'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2024

Hypnosuggestion

A montage of motionless images generated by Artificial Intelligence that makes up a science fiction thriller in which the clues are our memory and subconscious and the method is hypnosis. 
Per Bifrost
Sweden

2023, 8'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

I Have Never Been this Close

In a rural periphery amid transformation, agricultural machines devastate the fields and the places are haunted by an eternal gloom. Out of the flames, the bells are reborn, invoking the presence of the community.
Francisca Dores
Portugal

2024, 17'
Opening and Closing
Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2024

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

Libuše Jarcovjáková, who’s been dubbed the “Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia”, finds herself in a stifling environment after the Prague Spring of 1968. There are few places where she can express herself freely or explore her sexuality. The camera as her constant companion — and the source of the film’s material, made up of her innumerable photographs and diary excerpts — sees her go to West Berlin, escape to Tokyo, and return to Europe. 
Klara Tasovska
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Austria

2024, 90'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

In Praise of Slowness

Tangier is a city undergoing rapid transformation. In this film, the focus is on traditional jobs that are becoming obsolete, the slow moments and gestures that are losing their place in a modern, bustling city.
Hicham Gardaf
United Kingdom / Italy

2023, 17'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2024

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

Perhaps not everyone can have a transcendent experience listening to Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” in the south of France, but it’s hard for anyone to hear the music composed by Paul Simon without having a memorable experience. Paul Simon went beyond Garfunkel (with whom he ended up having a thorny relationship) to have a long career and an intriguing life. In this epic film, we delve into what has made him one of the biggest names in American songwriting. 
Alex Gibney
United States

2023, 209'
Retrospective Kamal Aljafari
IndieLisboa 2024

It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus

Moments that should be more human are pierced by time-consuming and dehumanising bureaucracy, turning people into numbers and their life stories into mere statistics. In the waiting rooms of Berlin’s immigration institutions, everything is reduced to something sterile and lacking in empathy. 
Kamal Aljafari
Germany

2019, 16'
Smart7
IndieLisboa 2024

It’s Not My Film

On a beach by the Baltic in winter, a broken couple, on the brink of separation invent a game to decide their future. The result could be deciding to stay together, or it could be leaving the beach and never looking back, their relationship over, their lives torn apart. The rules of the game are not necessarily simple and what is at stake is the most important thing: love. 
Maria Zbaska
Poland

2024, 99'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2024

Jabal

The Promised Land is less a real place and more an eternal promise. This is a quest on which three friends embark, where the destination is a Palestinian community in the middle of the United States. 
Zayd Lahham
Jordan / United States

2023, 20'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2024

June

Never again will we think of June Carter as just the wife character played by Reese Witherspoon in the Johnny Cash biopic with Joaquin Phoenix. There’s no doubt that Cash was an inescapable figure in American music. But June Carter — the composer of the phenomenon popularised by Cash, “Ring of Fire” — is the focus here. A documentary to discover a prolific and renowned country artist in her own voice. 
Kristen Vaurio
United States

2023, 98'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2024

Kharms

Daniil Kharms was an avant-gardist and poet of the absurd, whose short stories are transformed into chapters in this animation that emphasises the charm of this Russian writer’s surreal and enticing world.
Svetlana Andrianova
Russian Federation

2023, 13'

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