29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2025

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2025

Vulcanizadora

Two men, long-time loserish friends, go for a walk with fateful consequences through the Michigan forest. One wants to get to their destination quickly, the other wants to enjoy it and make stops, whether necessary or not. The underlying idea is that there really is no turning back. They’ve made a pact and they’re going to go through with it. At least, that’s the idea. 
Joel Potrykus
United States

2024, 84'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2025

Water Tongue

Songs of whales, bird calls of Cory’s shearwaters, transatlantic letters, radio signals. Water Tongue reflects on the many forms of communication on Earth. Mariana, who is Azorean, and Stella, who is in Lisbon, communicated over long distance. 
Stella Horta
Portugal / Germany

2025, 19'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

We Are Two Abysses

Living alone in the highest mountains of Portugal, Carlos has spent years writing letters to his beloved late wife, suspended in a time that no longer exists. His solitary world is disrupted when a filmmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious lake, stumbles upon him. What begins as a chance encounter soon evolves into a deep, yet fleeting friendship. To her, Carlos slowly reveals the depth of his grief, his memories, and his inner abyss. In their shared moments, the boundaries between their lives blur, offering both a glimpse of healing amidst the shadows of longing.
Kopal Joshy
Portugal

2025, 64'

Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2025

We Were Young

Binka Jeliaskova makes her solo directorial debut with this love story set in Nazi-occupied Bulgaria, inspired by the author’s experience in the Partisan resistance, here mirrored in her experience of armed struggle in contrast to the blossoming of love. Winner of the main prize at the Moscow Film Festival, it was a blockbuster success in Bulgaria. The opening film in Mark Cousins’ documentary series Women Make Film, it’s considered the first Bulgarian feature film directed by a woman..
Binka Jeliaskova
Bulgaria

1961, 110'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

We, People of the Islands

Tired of poverty and hunger, 31 young Cape Verdeans, including one woman, embark on an adventure to Cuba in a secret operation to receive military training to free the country from the clutches of colonialism.
Elson Santos, Lara Sousa
Cape Verde / Portugal / Mozambique

2025, 80'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Weeds

An oasis of beautiful plants and flowers in the middle of an ocean of weeds is put to the test when a storm threatens to infest all the work done by the Gardener. Can he fight off the elemental forces testing him?
Pola Kazak
Czech Republic

2024, 14'

Cinema at the Pool
IndieLisboa 2025

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

A Pedro Almodóvar film from the crazy 1980s in which the Spanish director brings us one of his protagonists who he positions as an everyday heroine. Almodóvar likes to explore the chaotic inner lives of women, including those who work as housewives. In this movie, actress Carmen Maura is one of those women, who is addicted to amphetamines, lives with a husband who doesn’t love her, has two sons involved in bad stuff, an unbearable mother-in-law, and her best friend and neighbor is a sex worker. What follows, nobody deserves that. This film will be screened exclusively with Portuguese subtitles.
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain

1984, 101'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

When I Leave This Land

In the village of Dine, in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, solitude deepens when, under cover of night, dogs bark outside and confirm that the cave has been stormed into.
Francisco Moura Relvas, Rita Senra
Portugal

2025, 16'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Where do Birds Go When it Rains

Juan is on the beautiful mountain of La Sarna trying to make a documentary when two events lead him to confront serious topics: on the one hand, the discovery of a violent event related to the place, and on the other, the progressive loss of his sight. 
Juan Sebastian Sisa
Colombia

2025, 17'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Where do you call home?

“Where do you call home?” was the question faced by nearly 3,000 Spanish children exiled in the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War. This film tells the story of Angelita Perez, who lived in Russian boarding schools from ages 4 to 24 until completing her medical studies. It’s a tale of resilience, love, and identity, intertwining past and present. It also explores the bond between a mother and daughter through shared songs and stories.
Ana Pérez-Quiroga
Portugal

2024, 73'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

White roses, fall!

¡Caigan las rosas blancas! wants to deconstruct. Deconstruct ideas of gender, ideas of what is taboo, ideas of what cinema is. The plot centers on Violeta, a director who has been hired to make a mainstream porn film and decides to run away with her friends to find inspiration. What awaits them is the adventure of a lifetime.
Albertina Carri
Argentina / Brazil / Spain

2024, 122'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Wind, Talk to Me

The Serbian director’s feature debut is a tribute to his late mother. Stefan Djordjevic deals with this death by mixing fiction and fact, images he filmed of his mother and a meeting, in the present, of the whole family. While working on a project that pays tribute to her, they talk (and don’t talk) about the good, the bad and the painful. In the mix is a lost dog that will become part of the family and the grieving process.
Stefan Djordjevic
Serbia / Croatia / Slovenia

2025, 100'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2025

Winners

At his first practice with the new football team, Jonas meets Niklas. After a party, they end up at Niklas’ house. Cuddled up, the two friends fall asleep. Their closeness does not go unnoticed. The team wins the next game, but the distance between them seems insurmountable.
Edgar Gomes Ferreira
Switzerland / Portugal

2025, 20'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Winter Monologues

Hanka visits her lonely grandfather and everything is a trip back in time, including the act of eating homemade preserves. But to talk about the past is also to confront the present.
Manuel Karel Seiler
Czech Republic / Switzerland

2024, 19'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Works and Nights

Suzana is stuck in the past, unable to get over the loss of a loved one and live her life without that hurt.
Luiz Afonso Morêda
Brazil

2024, 14'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2025

Yazza

Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy, unexpected and utter frenzy. 
Francisco Lacerda
Portugal

2025, 5'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Your Attention Please

The audience is sitting in their seats, waiting for the performance to begin. Someone fiddles with their cell phone to turn it off, someone coughs in anticipation. Finally, silence and everyone paying attention. But is everyone really paying attention?
Colette Natrella
France

2024, 4'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Youth (Hard Times)

The second part of a trilogy of films, which started with Youth (Spring) and continues with Youth (Homecoming), in which Wang Bing follows the same characters over time — young people who have come to Zhili, an industrial city, to work hard and try to achieve their dreams. This part sees tensions rise between workers and management over pay (including the lack of it). 
Wang Bing
France / Luxembourg / Netherlands

2024, 226'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Youth (Homecoming)

The film that punctuates the trilogy of films that began with Youth (Spring) and continued with Youth (Hard Times), in which Wang Bing follows the same characters, in every facet of their lives, over a long period of time. In this final chapter, we see the culmination of their struggle for survival in rural China as a new year is celebrated.
Wang Bing
France / Luxembourg / Netherlands

2024, 152'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Youth (Spring)

This is the opening part of a trilogy of films, which continues with Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming), in which Wang Bing follows the same characters in every facet of their lives (whether at work, in their day-to-day professional lives or their friendships and love relationships) over a long period. Here, the director spends a year in Zhili, an industrial city where young people try to work hard to achieve their dreams.
Wang Bing
France / Luxembourg / Netherlands

2023, 212'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Yuck!

Kissing is very unpleasant. Lips turn vibrant pink in anticipation and it’s a horror. Léo makes fun of the couples he sees until his own lips start to glow pink. Is it so blergh to kiss?
Loïc Espuche
France

2023, 13'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree)

A movie that combines fiction and reality to tell the story of an Indigenous woman, the director’s grandmother, and the tree she planted, whose fruit is the jackfruit — and both are seen in the same way, as something undesirable. 
Felipe M. Bragança
Brazil

2025, 30'

Focus
IndieLisboa 2025

Zodiac Killer Project

Just as it was never proven who the Zodiac Killer was, so was Charlie Shackleton unable to move forward with the big screen adaptation of the book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge by Lyndon E. Lafferty, who believed he knew the identity of the elusive criminal. But that didn’t stop Shackleton from making a movie-about-the-movie-he-would’ve-made, in a cinematic evocation of the true crime genre. Zodiac Killer Project is imaginative, intriguing and a masterful deconstruction that includes the most beautiful sunset.
Charlie Shackleton
United Kingdom

2025, 89'

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