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INDIELISBOA 2025

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Epilogues

A movie that thinks of death, or rather life, as having an epilogue. Imagine that if using the ashes of someone who died and was dear to us, we could talk to them again, relive the moments we spent together and have a new perspective on the life we shared. That’s what happens to this husband, devastated by his wife’s death.

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Iceland / Belgium / Norway

2024, 90'

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Fear Itself

Signing briefly as Charlie Lyne, Shackleton travels through a plethora of horror films (apart from the opening and closing sequences). It comprises material from other films (classic, cult, etc.) to explore the viewer’s relationship with fear and cinema.

Charlie Shackleton

2015, 88'

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Filhos do Meio – South Side Hip Hop Stories

This film tells the story of rap music in Almada and Miratejo, one of the first major spots of this musical genre in Portugal. Guided by the protagonists who built and lived the movement intensively, we travel through their memories, stories, and inspirations to discover the great landmarks of this culture on the south banks of the Tagus River — built in a territory of demanding and politized working classes, with great cultural diversity in the post-Carnation Revolution.

2025, 60'

Mouth of Madness

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Finding Daddy

Emily Wilson returns after her previous short, Danny’s Girl. This time, the protagonists are two sisters, Dinky and Flossy, who couldn’t be worse off. They need money and they need it now. And that means a visit to their father, who is suddenly looking very wealthy.

2025, 12'

National Competition

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First Person Plural

Mateus Lagoa and his wife Irene will celebrate their 20th anniversary at a luxurious resort on a tropical island, leaving their teenage son dangerously adrift.

Portugal / Italy

2025, 119'

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Fish Story

A film that threads the blurred line between documentary and fiction to explore a story that seems to be more myth than reality: Caspar Salmon tells us how, in 1980, he attended a meeting on an island in Wales where only people with surnames related to fish were present.

Charlie Shackleton

2017, 14'

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Four in a Row

Carolina, Carlota, Clara and Constança are four sisters whose parents have insisted, every year, on taking the same picture. In Porto Santo beach, from 2003 to 2024, Clara Figueiredo narrates her childhood memories, which she associates to each of the pictures, reflecting upon the sisters.

Clara Figueiredo

2025, 5'

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Freak of Nature

A stop-motion animation about a creature that has become too afraid to leave its cage, even when that’s already possible. What brings it out of its shyness cocoon is something that needs to be taken care of.

Alexandra Lermer

2024, 8'

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Freeride in C

A short film that lets itself be carried away in a carefree and abstract dance focused on freedom of movement. We’re on a snow-white summit and the immaculate scenery is interrupted by the excitement of skiing down the mountain.

Edmunds Jansons

2024, 10'

National Competition

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Gods of stone

In one of the last rural schools on the border between Galicia and Portugal, Mariana, a four-year-old girl, discovers the world through the stories and legends told by her teacher. As Mariana grows, these tales and the passage of time shape her view of the world, until at eighteen, she faces a crucial decision: to leave her village or remain in this borderland by her mother’s side.

Iván Castiñeiras Gallego

Spain / France / Portugal

2025, 85'

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Green Grey Black Brown

Yuyan Wang, a Chinese director and artist now based in Paris, imagines a world where oil, or an oil-like substance, is the glue that holds everything together, an allegory that messes with global notions of capitalism and extraction and questions the future — of this world and ours.

China / South Korea / France

2024, 12'

National Competition

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Hanami

On a remote volcanic island, where everyone wants to leave, little Nana learns, between tides, to want to stay.

Denise Fernandes

Portugal / Switzerland / Cape Verde

2024, 96'

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Hannah & The Crocodile

An allegorical movie about the power of trying to fight what threatens those we love. Fien enlists the help of their parents to help her sister Hannah get rid of a malicious crocodile that alarms her.

Lore Mechelaere

2024, 16'

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Heartbeat

Jay Rosenblatt is a softy. In this moving film, the protagonists are the filmmakers, couple Jay Rosenblatt and Stephanie Rapp, who set out on a journey 25 years ago in order to have their own offspring. 25 years later, the movie is in dialogue with the contemporary erosion of reproductive rights.

Jay Rosenblatt, Stephanie Rapp

2025, 31'

International Competition

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Heavenly Rhymes

Spring is a time of renewal. Nature comes out of a period of hibernation to strut its stuff in all its splendor. In the south of Italy, in Basilicata, this moment is celebrated with an arboreal wedding rite in the form of a dance, in which human beings join hands with the natural world to achieve something sublime together.

Italy / United Kingdom

2024, 15'

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Hemel

Hemel is Hemel Hempstead, the director’s hometown, which was a planned community. Danielle Dean places the history of Hemel Hempstead in dialogue with a horror and science fiction film shot on location and explores the relationship between the two.

United Kingdom / United States

2024, 30'

International Competition

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Holy Water

At just 15 years old, Lois embarks on an investigation to discover the fate of her sister’s soul, who died tragically and too soon. In the middle of Arkansas, to dare to ask is to dare to hope.

2024, 13'

Cinema at the Pool

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Homeland

Wouldn’t it be magical to cure loneliness by creating an extraordinary friend? That’s exactly what happens here and one’ll need to be very careful to look after this companion.

Juan de Dios Marfil

Spain / Czech Republic

2009, 6'

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Honestly

The possibility of having a safe environment in which to have honest conversations about difficult or even taboo topics is essential. Here, Peter is a teacher who gives workshops dealing with sexual and religious issues and he allows his students the space they need to think, feel and talk.

2024, 24'

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How Are You?

French duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (Jessica Forever, Eat the Night) return with an animated short in which a cow, an elephant, a penguin, a lion, a pig, a wolf, a monkey and a rabbit try to change the world by curing the ills that afflict it.

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

2025, 31'

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How the Bear Composed a Song

A bear can be a very multifaceted and talented animal. In this movie, our bear is going to compose a song, but he won’t be alone: he has the help of many baby animals who are experts at making noise and creating sounds.

Kristína Bajaníková

2025, 7'

International Competition

IndieLisboa 2025

Hurikán

Hurikán has a mission: to find a keg of beer that can impress the girl he has a crush on, the waitress at his favorite bar. The mission isn’t easy, but he has to be up to the task.

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Bosnia and Herzegovina / France

2024, 13'

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I Found a Box

Guy comes across something unexpected while flying through the forest: a discarded box. But a dropped box can be used in many ways. Guy just has to choose one.

2024, 9'