29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2026

Cinema at the Pool
IndieLisboa 2026

The Roundy Belly Wolf

The fat wolf lived with a round but completely empty stomach. One day, by chance, he discovered a hidden talent to finally fill his belly.
Marion Jamault
Belgium

2016, 4'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

The Shining Tapestry

The age of video surveillance has not only taken over our avenues; it has trespassed into the natural world. Today, we live online, in a reality where we can choose to follow a family of owls 24 hours a day. Will this bring us closer to truly knowing these wild animals? Or does it push us even further from understanding what inhabits their gaze and consciousness? Is this an excess of control — or simply monitoring?
Kai Harlow
Belgium / Hungary / Portugal

2025, 28'

Smart7
IndieLisboa 2026

The Visitor

Returning to the place where one grew up is to expect that everything will remain the same—people, roundabouts, scents. Danielus, an emigrant in Norway, comes back to sell his parents’ house, but his stay becomes prolonged in a gesture of surrender to the solitude that memory demands of him, a rediscovery of a place that no longer belongs to him, in a daily life infected by several surreal elements. The first feature film by Vytautas Katkus, a filmmaker who has already presented several shorts at IndieLisboa.
Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania / Norway / Sweden

2025, 111'

Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

This Is Spinal Tap

One of Britain’s most influential hard rock bands sets out on a tour across the United States to promote their latest album, Smell the Glove. Joining Spinal Tap on the road is Marty DiBergi, a filmmaker and devoted fan determined to shoot a documentary along the way. Rob Reiner’s feature debut is a defining mockumentary, anchored in the quirks of the greatest bands of the twentieth century and the oversized egos of their members. 
Rob Reiner
United States

1984, 82'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

This Suffocating Now

These are fascistic times — in discourse, in images, in intimacy. Vika Kirchenbauer questions the actions (and inactions) of the German state in the face of escalating violence. Drawing on observations and recordings from the past three years, this is a deeply personal essay, irregular in rhythm — like the very cadence of thought itself.
Vika Kirchenbauer
Germany

2026, 16'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Three

A country house and a double date. It begins cordially, politely — of course — until alcohol starts laying down its own law, loosening tongues and inhibitions. In its wake come old conflicts between siblings and spouses, tensions, resentments, and the you-never-told-me-this revelations long left unsaid. 
Juan Ignacio Ceballos
Argentina

2025, 24'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Tinsman Road

A good son returns home. Robbie comes back to his small town in rural New Jersey, where his mother still mourns the sudden disappearance of her daughter, Noelle. Determined to uncover what really happened to his sister, the young filmmaker retraces her steps, interviews local residents, and searches tirelessly. And his persistence begins to bear fruit.
Robbie Banfitch
United States

2025, 113'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Tropical Fractals

On an interstellar journey, a group of scientists studies the last living vestiges of Earth. The artificial intelligence, Museo, becomes a portal to the crew’s diaries and a fragmented archive of humanity. On Earth, the one believed to be the last of the humans traverses a ruined planet that is slowly recovering, little by little, from the apocalypse it endured.
Leonardo Pirondi
Portugal / Brazil

2026, 72'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Two and a Cat

The messy life of a young couple and their clandestine cat in a room whose rent they cannot afford. A story of love, sharing, and hope — unshakable and resilient in its innocence in the face of the unstable and disordered life of our times.
Patrícia Saramago
Portugal

2026, 25'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Um

In this fantastical and sinister universe, the bird-people — human bodies crowned with avian heads — struggle to confront an imminent threat: their eggs are haunted. A violent, surreal, and fiercely imaginative animated film.
Luis Nieto
France

2025, 8'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Vamps

Arielle and Myriam contemplate and philosophize — their eyes fixed beyond, into the star-strewn darkness. They reflect on love, the sacrifices it demands, and the madness it can inspire. Two divas in a tribute to the very origins of cinema.
Lluís Miñarro
Spain

2025, 7'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Variations

So vast, yet so private. Grief is a paradoxical entity — an old (un)familiar presence, a creature of many silhouettes. In this bookbinding workshop — devoted to extending the lifespan of a few volumes — it becomes the central character. 
Lur Olaizola Lizarralde
Spain

2025, 18'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Venenus

Fisheress, beware not to catch in your nets the sulfurous Seranha! The malefic Venenus, from her mouth injected, will inflame your sleeping ecstasy and transform you forever…
Marie Fages
France / Portugal

2025, 6'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

Vintage Glitch. Cities to end all summers and twilights

In the distant future, the world of the eternal present is inhabited by bio-mechanical-digital-electronic beings. But one of these beings does not believe that it has always been like this and sets out on a journey of discovery in 3 stages. Such stages are made up of moving paintings, images corroded by the glitch and 2D and 3D animation, intertwined by narrator-poets and music, in a sci-fi object combining subversion, adventure and childishness.
Carlos Mendes, Vasco Bação, Jorge Ferraz, Vítor Inácio, Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Portugal

2025, 48'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

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In Linz Cathedral, the Hard-Chor, conducted by Alexander Koller, performs Bruckner. Sound and visual artist Stefan Tiefengraber invites us to listen to what is usually unheard. By removing the sonic source, the Austrian artist searches for what the pauses reveal — for reverberation, for echo: what remains when sound itself falls silent?
Stefan Tiefengraber
Austria

2025, 4'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

Water’s Fault

Gisberta, a immigrant trans woman, receives the news that she is HIV positive, causing her to lose all her sources of income and become homeless and addicted. In the building where she finds shelter, she is approached by an extremely aggressive young group.
Ana Guia, Marta Quintanito Roberto, Ruben Pinto, Tiago Magalhães
Portugal

2024, 5'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

We Put the World to Sleep

The mission is secret and the ambition utopian: a film to truly bring the world to an end. We Put the World to Sleep is a work about borders — a nine-year production that offers anything but certainty: performer or character, improvisation or script, death or persistence, the real or its satellite. This is the second chapter of the “spiritual trilogy” by Romanian filmmaker Adrian Țofei and his artistic partner Duru Yücel.
Adrian Țofei
Romania / Turkey

2025, 83'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

We Were Just Brats

At a summer camp in 2007, João meets Ivo. We Were Just Brats is a possible narrative of a queer teenager who finds, in the dormitory and in the hip-hop and pop music of his world, a space that oscillates between self-discovery and punitive surveillance.
João Nunes Monteiro
Portugal

2026, 19'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Weird To Be Human

We already knew it would come to this: in 2194, bodies bearing a human likeness are cultivated to host artificial intelligences. Transfers between the digital and physical realms have become daily routine. An immigration officer from the Department of Embodiments arrives to interrogate a being on the verge of transformation.
Jan Grabowski
Poland / France

2025, 16'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

Whelk

A movie about distorted sound reality.
Nádia Duarte
Portugal

2025, 5'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

Where Fireflies Sparkle

A group of teenagers gathers for a camping trip. While two of them try to define their romantic relationship, they are surprised by a swarm of fireflies that leads them deep into the forest.
Clara Vieira
Portugal

2026, 18'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

Who’s Afraid of Zurita de Oliveira?

This film celebrates the life and work of Zurita de Oliveira — musician, performer, composer, and author — widely recognized as the pioneer of rock & roll in Portugal. She turned music into an act of defiance, forging a path at a time when there was little room for free-spirited women. Through songs and testimonies, the film reclaims her memory and transforms her previously unheard lyrics into a gesture of resistance, sung and performed by the women of today.
Francisca Marvão
Portugal

2026, 63'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Women of the Revolution

Women of the Revolution is a film that celebrates the multitude of revolutionary women: the mothers of our democracy. Through the voice, gaze, silence, and actions of each of these women, we learn about the richness of their experiences, which together give us a legacy of trust, justice, perseverance, respect, and freedom. These are women who defeated fascism, colonialism, and social inequalities in Portugal and the occupied African territories and transformed the world around them.
Raquel Freire
Portugal

2026, 115'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

XYZ

An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth. 
Alexandre Alagôa
Portugal / Luxembourg

2026, 12'

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