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IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Fire in My Pocket

Let’s face it: building a bed with one’s father is hardly a child’s dream activity. The boy soon allows himself to be distracted by a fire-child, who lures him into a new world where mushrooms grow at a different rhythm and birds look nothing like the ones he knows. But he will have to find his way back. There is still a bed left unfinished.
Janka Feiner
Hungary

2026, 10'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

First Flight

Three baby birds, one big challenge — their first flight! But as the frogs begin their peculiar performance, the sky turns into a whirlwind of improvisation. Some birds twirl, some hover, and others just hope for the best.
Adrian Jaffé
Germany

2025, 3'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Fly By

The little cloud is looking after a pretty flower. She loses her temper when a pesky plane gets in the way.
Filip Dobeš
Czech Republic

2022, 3'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Fordlândia Panacea

Fordlândia is often presented online as a “ghost town” and as a utopian project by Henry Ford. Yet the Amazonian company town, founded in 1928, was never a utopia. Nor is it a ghost town; on the contrary, it is full of life. Here, the ghosts are active historical forces: Ford, capitalism, extractivism.
Susana de Sousa Dias
Portugal

2025, 66'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Found!

As Anna wanders through the snow, she meets an unexpected playmate.
Juliette Baily
Belgium / France

2025, 5'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Fucktoys

A fortune teller lays out the cards and AP’s fate is sealed: a curse that is here to stay. What do you do in circumstances like these? You run. You search further ahead. You ride a motorcycle. One thousand dollars and the body of a little lamb — no more, no less — that’s all AP needs to break free. Along the way, the misadventures pile up, becoming ever stranger, more excessive, provocative and, above all, trashy. After all, the city where it all leads is called Trashtown
Annapurna Sriram
United States

2025, 106'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

Funk U All

Born in the favela, it has spilled into major avenues and taken over every corner — street parties, underground dances, and upscale nightclubs alike. Funk, more specifically funk putaria, is now Brazil’s most popular music genre, proudly raising its anti-prudish flag and foregrounding the body — particularly the female body — as a site of resistance, desire, and self-assertion. Funk U All, the new film by Ana Rieper (I’ll Raffle Off My Heart, IndieLisboa 2012), brings funk to the center of sex, or sex to the center of funk.
Ana Rieper
Brazil

2025, 91'
Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Ghost in the Machine

This is not just another film about Artificial Intelligence. Valerie Veatch’s proposal is to return to the Stone Age of this plague that has invaded our daily lives — to understand its origins and anticipate its trajectory. Through an in-depth investigation, shaped on screen as an essay, Ghost in the Machine is bold, provocative, and calls for reflection. The May 2 screening will be followed by a discussion featuring guest speakers.
Valerie Veatch
United States

2026, 96'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Gravity Racer

Mounted on his Gravity Racer, a vehicle born in his garage, a four-year-old boy takes on the steepest hill in his neighborhood. And now? Has what he imagined turned out to be far more dangerous than he ever expected?
Finn Walther
Norway

2025, 5'
Retrospective
Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

From 1922, Häxan is regarded as one of the most significant horror films of the early twentieth century — and on top of that with a mockumentary twist. Yet it is much more than that: by combining historical facts with folk traditions, the film throws open a window onto the evolution of witchcraft through the centuries and, of course, onto the persecution women have faced throughout history. — with musical accompaniment.
Benjamin Christensen
Sweden

1922, 105'
Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Hal & Harper

The bond between siblings is a system of its own: it can be as enigmatic as it is candid. Hal and Harper share their own semantics and semiotics, born and raised in Los Angeles. But when their father announces that his girlfriend is expecting a baby, the troubled childhood that Hal and Harper never quite allowed to resurface suddenly moves to centre stage. A series by Cooper Raiff, the first four episodes of which can be seen at IndieLisboa. Canais TVCine series preview.
Cooper Raiff
United States

2025, 107'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep

More than a love letter to Henry the cat, this film drifts into a drowsy performative exercise of life together — gestures, silences, sighs. Mostly horizontal in stance, it moves at a snail’s pace, as if morning never quite ends. What would we be without them?
Marthe Peters
Belgium

2026, 13'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Holy Destructors

What is it that grows while decomposing other organisms? Microfungi are natural biodestructors, essential to the recycling of dead matter and the continuity of nature. In this essay film, we watch them grow under the microscope while art conservators attempt to preserve humanity’s collective memory. The metaphor speaks for itself.
Aistė Žegulytė
Lithuania / France / Latvia

2025, 85'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Home is where the heart is

Mia’s past could be called trauma. Deep drawers, filled with objects and fragments of a childhood scarred by her father’s sexual abuse. A film that both recreates and redirects — a place where healing is not arrival at the shore, but an exploratory, intentional drift.
Timothée Engasser
France

2025, 24'
Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Homemade Gatorade

In the middle of the night, she grabs her car and hits the road. A desperate woman is determined to sell her own version of an energy drink to a mysterious online buyer, at any cost. Strange, decadent and darkly funny, the film offers a possible portrait of contemporary America.
Carter Amelia Davis
United States

2025, 9'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Honey, My Love, So Sweet

In an old movie theater, the oldest question of all: how do I know if I love someone? Life has moved with his mother to the Times Theatre, in downtown Manila, and finds himself stumbling through the tentative first steps of love. Everything within this setting matters: the films, the venue’s fading grandeur, and the quiet wisdom of its projectionist — their confidant.
JT Trinidad
Philippines

2025, 20'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Horde

A choreography of people and kindred creatures moves toward a bizarre tower. As if under a spell — a hypnotic occurrence — the group is unable to stop, estranged from command over their own faculties. Yet there is someone who seems to vibrate at a different frequency.
Janina Ksieska
Poland

2025, 7'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Hotel Oblique

The obsession with wellness has reached every species. In a luxurious retreat that markets relaxation to restless birds, a budgie attempts to rediscover himself. For reasons he cannot quite explain, all he truly wants is to return to the safety of his cage.
Merlin Flügel
Germany

2026, 7'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

How to Catch a Butterfly

Sexual fetishes of white men toward Asian women have persisted for centuries — burdened with the macabre and racist promiscuity they inherently carry. In 2021, however, when Robert Aaron Long murdered eight women in Atlanta in an attempt to suppress his own desire, a new circle of hell was reached. Through a series of letters, Dutch–Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanichus addresses the killer directly. Why?
Kiriko Mechanicus
Netherlands

2026, 26'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

How to Move a House

It’s winter and there is no rain. Sofia returns to her grandmother’s house. In the mountains, she finds a land where only the Wind lives. All that’s left of the house is dust and ashes. In the attic, Sofia finds pieces of lives other than her own. That’s where the house listens.
Francisco Borges
Portugal

2026, 17'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Hush Hush Little Bear

It may be bedtime, but that doesn’t mean everyone is ready for it. While the adult bears entertain themselves with honey and berries, the little bears do all sorts of mischief within the clouds.
Māra Liniņa
Latvia

2021, 5'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

I Am Not Here Anymore

A grandfather dies and tries to leave his home. Unfortunately, his family don’t want to believe that he’s gone for good. Every time he tries to run away, they take him back to them.
Nawojka Wierzbowska
Poland / France

2025, 15'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

I Am The Film Motherfucker, But I Am Real

A found-footage collage emerges from five archives in post–Arab Spring Egypt: an activist in exile, the recruitment of a group of cadets from a military academy, a television series, and other fragments of a generation born of a failed revolution. The film reclaims propaganda — so deeply performative — in which the athletic male body is staged as the ultimate agent of the authoritarian state led by President el-Sisi. 
MeowX2
Egypt / Netherlands

2026, 24'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival

Rosa lies inside an MRI machine. She is asked to think of a happy memory, something she doesn’t have. It is time to create one, by returning to her childhood, when her mother was arrested and accused of murder. And there they are, in a realistic reverie, travelling in an old hot dog van along the dirt roads of northern Brazil. Janaína Marques’ feature debut is a guided tour through a mind in turmoil, its landscapes and its wounds.
Janaína Marques
Brazil

2025, 92'

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