29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2025

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Pompon Ours – The Dream of the Totem Tree

Pompon dreams of the Totem Tree and when he wakes up he doesn’t want to waste any time, he wants to go on an adventure!
Matthieu Gaillard
France

2024, 21'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Progress Mining

This Progress Mining Company is hanging by a thread and may need some construction work done, but in the meantime, a new staff member arrives to be introduced and start his job. One of his duties is to feed the monster.
Gabriel Böhmer
United Kingdom

2024, 16'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Queens of Drama

A French queer musical that puts two aspiring pop (and punk) stars on a collision course. What results is a first love in all its fullness: filled with intensity, anguish, sweetness and volatility. Mimi Madamour (Louiza Aura) and Billie Kohler (Gio Ventura) are stars who have fallen by the charts’ wayside and are now remembered only by their most devoted (if not obsessed) fans. The rest is herstory. 
Alexis Langlois
France / Belgium

2024, 115'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Quisiera no sentir todo este ruido

A fiction that imagines anxiety as literal explosions of light, surging out of one’s body. Tonight’s anxiety, this girl’s, is linked to her interrupted pregnancy.
Lucila Mariani
France / Argentina

2025, 14'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Rare Stone

A small bird tries to hunt down a small stone, causing a landslide, but also igniting an adventure. What begins simply enough, a bird drawn with simplicity in search of a stone, becomes something more complex that is transformed by new experiences.
Jiahang Li
China

2024, 9'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Raw+Porous

Evoking the human, the organic and the extraordinary, Raw+Porous is a story of obsessive love and a surreal entropy of surroundings between two people who give themselves over to absolute desire.
Ágata de Pinho
Portugal

2025, 20'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Razeh-del

In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Maryam Tafakory
Iran / United Kingdom / Italy

2024, 28'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2025

Reaping Cherries

What I saw when the ultrasound was shown to me, I couldn’t believe. Inside my uterus there were hundreds of tiny creatures, shaped like spiders, but of flexible and tender body.
Clara Parente
Portugal

2025, 22'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

A satire and pastiche of spy movies, including but not limited to James Bond’s. The movie follows John D, who returns to a luxury hotel on the French Riviera where he relives memories of his golden days in the 1960s, but where he also senses the paranoid idea of the return of his enemies coming to the fore. We jump between the past and the present, in an exquisite work of editing that swirls with homages to martial arts, slashers and giallos. A gripping movie that leaves you with a touch of fever. 
Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet
Belgium / Luxembourg / Italy / France

2025, 87'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Refuse Room

“Together Forever”. Refuse Room is a film by Simon Liu, who returns with an exploration of what it means to live in the city of Hong Kong, in a struggle between the vertical and the horizontal, from the endless buildings to the detritus of the population. 
Simon Liu
Hong Kong

2024, 11'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

RICHARD

An intimate view of the director’s relationship with the knowledge of why his father died, a truth that was hidden from him and then altered over the years, until it was revealed during a family member’s drunken moment. 
Manuel Wetscher
Austria / Germany / Belgium

2024, 10'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2025

Rumours

Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, Zlatko Burić and Alicia Vikander. But if one had to say more, one could add that it’s a comedy that imagines a meeting of the G7 leaders, who have to deal with an unspecified global crisis (left to our imagination), and find themselves surrounded by figures straight out of a horror movie. A satire with brain — in more ways than one. 
Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Canada / Germany / Hungary / United States

2024, 109'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

S The Wolf

The drawings are minimal, the story is hairy. Hair is also important in this construction of masculinity: from the first trip to the barber to the initial hair loss, and much more.
Sameh Alaa
France

2025, 10'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Sabura

In this love story, a young couple faces an uncertain future between Africa and Europe. When they reunite in Lisbon, sharing a house with other immigrants, farness and closeness will test their relationship.
Falcão Nhaga
Portugal

2025, 26'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Santa Iria

Roadways and expressways. The train tracks. What remains of the factories, the wastelands. The clouds, the rain, and the wind. The river. A film about a suburb of Lisbon. The suburb where I was born and raised. The streets and interiors: houses, businesses, and associations. A film of pathways and details. A few work notes suggest that the film is looking for its own structure. The music? A suburban symphony. Somewhere between the praise of banality and an elegy of time.
Luís Miguel Correia
Portugal

2025, 179'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Santo Bartolomeu

An isolated island of rocks and deserted landscapes, abandoned by humans due to the overexploitation of its resources. Yet, the island is not as desolate as it appears. Traces of human presence linger, their shadows and souls imprinted on the terrain. 
Kilhan Wittock
Portugal

2024, 7'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2025

Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa revisits and remakes his original 1998 Serpenth’s Path, now in cooperation with Cinefrance Studios. Made with a sure and clinical hand — Alfred Hitchcock would approve —, there’s something dense, thematically speaking, and raw in this movie that asks us if revenge has ever an end. United by the need for retribution, a man whose daughter was killed and a woman full of mysteries go in search of those responsible. And will they ever stop?
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
France / Japan / Belgium

2024, 112'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Shadows of Ourselves

When the stranger becomes the source of our fear, our unease about our surroundings turns us into shadows of ourselves.
Pedro Serrazina
Portugal

2025, 8'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

She Boars

A film set in different moments: in the 16th century, in a forest, fighting for communal land; then, in a forest being monitored and the confrontation between notions of public and private, with the figure of the wild boar as an agent of chaos. 
Elsa Brès
France

2025, 68'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Sheep

A little girl in Tehran, Rose, decides to rebel against a tradition that no longer makes sense to her in the modern world: the sacrifice of little lambs and the distribution of their meat among the community. Rose will try to save as many lambs as she can. 
Hadi Babaeifar
Iran

2025, 13'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Sincero, Apaixonado

Wandering through disillusioned Portuguese landscapes, a man reflects on the ruins of his love. Multiple voices, reading fragments of his diary, share his restlessness and vulnerability.
Margaux Dauby, Raul Domingues
Belgium / Portugal

2025, 25'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2025

Sinking Feeling

Three people who use the train in San Francisco to commute to work and back, each tell us what it was like to get stuck on the train and the experiences (or fantasies) they had.
Zachary Epcar
United States

2024, 21'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2025

Sixty-seven Milliseconds

It all starts with a bullet, then you have to trace its path. An exploration of French police brutality, using both modern and archaic cinematographic techniques.
Fleuryfontaine
France

2025, 15'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2025

Slipper Keeper Kitty

In this village, at night when they go to sleep, the children carelessly throw their slippers aside. In the morning, they disappear. The children’s parents explain that the Slipper Keeper Kitty has taken them. The children search for her in the forest, the Kitty returns the mended slippers — and they promise to be more careful.
Rok Predin
Slovenia

2024, 11'

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