IndieLisboa 2025 — IndieLisboa

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

INDIELISBOA 2025

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25 Canções de Abril

Presented now in 4K digitalisation by Cinemateca Portuguesa, this film captured a show at the Coliseu do Porto in 1977. In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we go back in time to feel the weight of the artists who gave their work a political tenor and supported the revolution — like Adriano Correia de Oliveira, José Carlos Ary dos Santos and Carlos Paredes. The film includes a reading of political manifestos from the revolutionary process to date.

1977, 57'

International Competition

27

A film that illustrates (and animates) the exact notion of being 20-something and adrift in a chaotic world. To escape the daily drudgery at her parents’ house, Alice goes to a party. When she gets back, she has a bicycle accident that changes her perspective.

Flóra Anna Buda

France / Hungary

2023, 11'

International Competition

512×512

An exploration of how images composed by Artificial Intelligence can become an object of fascination, especially when we try to use them to excavate an obsession.

2023, 21'

International Competition

78 Days

It’s 1999 and NATO has invested against Serbia during the Kosovo War. But the protagonists are teenagers who deal with the threat of bombs by creating their own diary through home videos, concentrating on the things that make them still innocent, putting off the hardships of the world: mysterious boys, first kisses and intimate disappointments that mean they’re growing up too, whatever happens out there.

Emilija Gašić

2024, 85'

9 to 5

At night, the city breaks up into quiet and hustle and a magnificent yet deafening garbage truck disturbs it. It takes away leftovers and everything else forgotten in the fridge, it takes away tokens belonging to past lives. In the truck, it all gets crumpled and broken up.

2024, 10'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

A Fidai Film

A film that rebels against the theft of memories, especially when it comes to a country’s literary, and historical archives. Kamal Aljafari brings us the Israeli incursion into the Palestinian Research Centre in Beirut, in the summer of 1982. This example is not unique; it has been happening since 1948. When there is an occupation, there is a desire to disconnect from the past, to replace memories, to erase history. This film says “no” to that gesture.

Palestine / Germany / Qatar / Brazil / France

2024, 78'

National Competition

A Mother Goes to the Beach

Teresa, a single mother spends a day at the beach with her six-year-old son, Benji and her sister Marga, who is back in Portugal for a summer vacation. The day becomes very stressful with her sister’s constant speech about her son’s achievements and her criticisms towards Benji.

2023, 16'

A Traveler’s Needs

Starring Isabelle Huppert (in her third collaboration with the director), Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Ha Seongguk — This film follows a French woman in South Korea whose behaviour is not entirely easy for those around her to understand. Dedicated to the alcoholic drink makgeolli and entertained by playing a recorder for children, she ends up discovering a special talent for teaching a little of her language through poetry.

2024, 90'

A White White Day

A delicate and simple film that’s all about seeing beauty in every corner of the world, following a young boy on an afternoon when something changes in his family.

Russian Federation

2022, 6'

À Mesa da Unidade Popular

The Popular Unity Table was part of the furniture that, in the post-Independence period, the Mozambican State intended to attribute to all families and brought together the socialist idea of equality and social justice with the concept of National Unity, Frelimo’s basic assumption for the harmonious development of the country. Today, we sit down at that table again, to revisit the process of building a Nation and the utopia of a more just society.

Isabel Noronha, Camilo de Sousa

Portugal / Mozambique

2024, 86'

International Competition

ADE(On a Sunday)

Ade and Abu sneak out of Sunday school to go for a swim. When they are chased away from the water, they try a more adult liquid: their first sips of alcohol, as Ade sees his father do. The mischief will be discovered.

2023, 17'

All Gucci My Broski

A moment in the bathroom can spark the imagination. In this case, the contemplations of Jonny, a normal bloke trying to figure out what he wants out of life, as he stumbles through casual encounters, alcohol-fuelled outings and everything he imagines his life in a bustling metropolis should be.

2023, 14'

All of Us Strangers

A film that brings together two “Internet boyfriends”, actors Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) and Paul Mescal (Normal People, Aftersun). Scott is Adam, a lonely screenwriter who lives in London, and falls in love with his enigmatic neighbour, Mescal’s Harry. When he goes to visit his childhood home (to find inspiration for a next project), he discovers that a phantom version of his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) is still there.

United Kingdom / United States

2023, 105'

Director’s Cut

An American Chronicle

A film about a film that never existed. In the 1970s, Michelangelo Antonioni wrote a screenplay, entitled Two Telegrams, with the American Rudy Wurlitzer. In the 1980s, Portuguese producer Paulo Branco agreed with the director to make the film in the United States. For various reasons, the film didn’t happen. In this film, the imagination of the two directors picks up on what this unfinished project could have been.

Alexandre Gouzou, Jean-Claude Taki

2023, 66'

An Asian Ghost Story

A history of imperialism and post-war through the most innocuous object: the wig. We start with the export of hair for wigs, which was one of the biggest sources of Asian income in Mao Zedong’s China, move on to Hong Kong’s fundamental role as a trade hub and arrive at the American embargo on what they called “communist hair”, as a way of curbing Asia’s economic growth. All this is told with an unusual sense of humor.

Netherlands / Hong Kong

2023, 37'

International Competition

An odd turn

An Argentinian girl works as a guard in a museum in Buenos Aires. To pass the tedious nights, she decides to predict the future. Between the movements of the dollar, an indemnity and a new job, what happens is a new infatuation.

Francisco Lezama

Argentina / France

2024, 23'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

An Unusual Summer

In 2006, Kamal Aljafari’s father installed a camera facing the street in order to catch the rascal who kept damaging his car. In this attempt, he films the whole neighbourhood, the comings and goings of the neighbours, the mundane dynamics of society. After his father’s death, the director constructs a narrative through these captured images, illustrating, narrating and contextualising life in Ramla, a Palestinian district in Israel nicknamed the “ghetto”.

Palestine / Germany

2020, 80'

Retrospective MFA

And There Was No More Sea

A work commissioned by the Dutch state, this is a journey through the customs and traditions of this country and its connection to Lake IJssel, through a gaze that is both poetic and piercing.

1955, 24'