29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2025

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

1:10

There are ordinary situations that sometimes lead to dramatic consequences. That’s what happens in this story, in which a disagreement between two children on a sports day leads their parents to take extreme measures.
Sinan Taner
Switzerland

2024, 18'

European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2025

10 Megabytes of Memory

Markus Maicher compresses a decade of home movies to give us this digital autobiography that overwhelms and disturbs our senses. There’s nothing quite like nostalgia at the speed of light.
Markus Maicher
Austria

2021, 2'

European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2025

3 Artists On-line on Slow-Scan-TV

A performance involving three artists (Bartlett, Klinkowstein, Tanbellini) who have never met, are in three different parts of the world (Holland, Canada, United States) and will try to work at the speed of a freeze frame.
Tom Klinkowstein
United States / Netherlands / Canada

1980, 15'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

A Good Day

António wakes up to find an exact replica of himself floating inanimate in the pool. Without explanation, he and his family try to deal with the confusion, mistrust and a sense of mourning that settles in between them. Between absurdity and conflict, life goes on, undisturbed, as if not much had changed.
Tiago Rosa-Rosso
Portugal

2025, 20'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

A Luminous Life

At the producer’s request, the screening on May 7 – C.118, will not have descriptive subtitles in Portuguese. It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
João Rosas
Portugal / France

2025, 99'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

A Move

The weight of religion is felt in Elahe’s life when she returns to Mashhad, Iran, the city where she grew up. Her parents are moving house and she’s going to help them move — but the address isn’t the only thing she wants to help change.
Elahe Esmaili
Iran / United Kingdom

2024, 27'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2025

A Round of Applause for Death

This atmospheric short takes us through dreams with different abstract scenarios of murder and manslaughter, all ending with a round of applause for Death, the conclusion of all (these) dreams.
Stephen Irwin
United Kingdom

2024, 5'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Antígona ou a História de Sara Benoliel

Sara loses her brother due to complications from the Covid-19 virus, starting a journey where she looks for a traditional burial that respects the memory of her brother and the Cape Verdean culture. In a world silenced by the pandemic, Sara will find her mourning in forgotten communities. An ode to life.
Francisco Mira Godinho
Portugal

2025, 19'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

April

A delicate subject, filmed in a raw and lucid way. Nina is an obstetrician who is being accused of negligence. Nina is also the only possible help patients have in this rural community in Georgia where abortion is illegal. A cry for women’s bodily autonomy and the weight of fighting against institutions that don’t grant this freedom. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Georgia / France / Italy

2024, 134'

European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2025

Arcadian Rhythms #160

A pattern of pixels evolved into a continuous loop. An experience inspired by the first video arcade games, with a soundtrack produced by converting images into audio.
Bas van Koolwijk
Netherlands

2025, 3'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Ari

Léonor Serraille brings us a delicate, warm and suis generis character study, which unfolds its meanings as it goes along. The titular Ari wants to be a primary school teacher but collapses during an episode in class that becomes the catalyst for a journey alone in the city, in search of a friend who might be a safe haven, and in which he revisits his choices and his future.
Léonor Serraille
France / Belgium

2025, 88'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Ariel

A boat on which everyone is asleep. An actress who arrives in the Azores to join a theatrical tour of The Tempest, but finds something unexpected and magical instead. The whole island is a stage and all of Shakespeare’s plays are performed throughout the day. The world of the movie merges with the world of the play and with the real world and we immerse ourselves in this poetic and metatextual game.
Lois Patiño
Spain / Portugal

2024, 104'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Armand

A Norwegian thriller starring the incredible Renate Reinsve from The Worst Person in the World (2021), which begins as a not entirely unlikely day for the parents of two students: the two six-year-olds have seemingly had a fight at school and the families are called in to try to clear up the incident. The film won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for best first feature. 
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Norway / Netherlands / Germany / Sweden

2024, 116'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

As Flores

As seasons change over the course of a year, a square in the center of Lisbon shifts. Repetition is observed through the four windows of a street kiosk.
Madalena Fragoso
Portugal

2025, 62'

Smart7
IndieLisboa 2025

As Silence Passes By

The prodigal son returns. Antonio has built a life for himself outside the rural Andalusia of his origins and where his family still resides. When they meet again, tensions are exacerbated by an acute need: Antonio’s twin brother, Javier, has a physical disability that requires care. And everyone needs Antonio’s help. But will he come back to stay?
Sandra Romero
Spain

2024, 98'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Ashen Sun

An animation that proposes something radical: announcing the ecological apocalypse and delivering it by hand. The announcement coming true.
Camille Monnier
France / Belgium

2024, 13'

Cinema at the Pool
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Até o Céu Leva Mais ou Menos 15 Minutos

The difference between turmoil and harmony can be as little as 15 minutes, which is the time it takes for three children and two mothers to get home on a car journey. A sigh at the end. 
Camila Battistetti
Brazil

2013, 12'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Autokar

A movie that turns the reality of migration into a fantastical experience. It’s the 1990s and we follow Agata, a girl who leaves her home country alone to live in another one. Her father is left behind and she uses the trip to write to him. Until her pencil falls out and she is forced to talk to the other passengers. 
Sylwia Szkiłądź
Belgium / France

2025, 17'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Baby Blue Benzo

Sara Cwynar returns to IndieLisboa with another film that works according to the logic of the Internet: ideas interconnect like hyperlinks and associations of terms and searches, going, like Alice, down the rabbit hole. From a Mercedes Benz car, we move on to Benzo(diazepine) and the world is our oyster.
Sara Cwynar
United States / Germany

2025, 22'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Balane 3

Note: At the director’s request, the screening on 5 May – C.142 will not have descriptive subtitles in Portuguese. BALANE 3 is a neighborhood in Inhambane, a city in the south of Mozambique. In 2019, I filmed a bit of the life of its inhabitants. Like any people in the world, the characters in this film work as fishermen, butchers or car washers, they go to school, hospitals, hair salons and markets, they drink and dance at night, they talk about politics, illnesses, friendships, love and sex. They talk a lot about sex.
Ico Costa
Portugal / France

2025, 98'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Because of (U)

When her boyfriend’s constant complaints (tinged with narcissism that makes her feel invisible) leave her bursting with anger, Laura has to dosomething to get out of this situation where even the landscape is bleak.
Tohé Commaret
France

2025, 13'

European Short Film Network
IndieLisboa 2025

Belchic QE

Lines of text that describe what we see flickering on the screen. Pure image, pure sound, and words that enter our subconscious. And maybe stay there.
ReMi
Austria

2000, 4'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Below and to the Left

A film made up of collages that reimagines Cerro Blanco-Guayaquil, in Ecuador, a territory under Swiss rule, its destruction in foreign hands. The voices of rebellion from Latin America and Caribbean radios are highlighted, in a film that makes us want to change the world.
Martín Baus
Chile / Ecuador / Switzerland

2025, 14'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2025

Between the Sea and the Island

Between the Sea and the Island is a search, an autobiographical archaeology, an essay on the relationship between an island son and his father and the sea. And there are endless layers, thoughts and memories in this space-time “between” this sea and this island.
José Rodrigo Freitas
Portugal

2024, 24'

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