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IndieLisboa 2026

Oh Be a Fine Girl Kiss Me

Shot in 16mm film and smartphone, Oh Be a Fine Girl Kiss Me blends historical fiction and autobiography in a meditation on life’s choices and constraints, as well as on the systems and categories that shaped modernity.
Alice dos Reis
Portugal

2026, 7'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Olívia and the Invisible Earthquake

Olívia, 12, her little brother Tim and their mother are forced to leave their apartment and move to a new neighborhood. To shield Tim from this upsetting situation, Olívia has him believe that this is all part of a film in which he’s the main character. Through laughter, tears, magic and the solidarity of new friends, they will find out that they are the heroes of their own life.
Irene Iborra
Belgium / Switzerland / Spain / Chile / France

2025, 70'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Olinda’s Golden Arches

After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Olinda — a city on the outskirts of Recife, Brazil, whose fate was then overseen by the country’s first communist woman mayor — became known as the first city in the world to bankrupt a McDonald’s. “A McFilm by Douglas Henrique,” the credits read. With fries sauce, by the way. 
Douglas Henrique
Brazil

2025, 24'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Once Upon a Starry Night

A brave mouse helps the fallen stars return to the sky.
Masha Rumyantseva
Russian Federation / Portugal

2024, 7'
Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Only Paper is Brown

Maxwell Alexandre was born and raised in one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, Rocinha. At 28, he burst onto the contemporary art scene, and his works are sold for exorbitant prices. His success hides a painful wound and reveals a structurally racist system.
Alexis Zelensky
France / Brazil / Portugal

2026, 92'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Our land of enchantment

In Roswell, New Mexico, aliens are everywhere — they’re the local mascot, the identity of this small town that claims to have witnessed the crash of a UFO in 1947. More than a search for answers, this is a film that carries us in its pocket and hurls us into the surreal. Annabelle Amoros (Special Mention for the Silvestre Award for Best Short Film at IndieLisboa 2022 with Churchill, Polar Bear Town) returns to the festival.
Annabelle Amoros
France

2025, 27'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Overwork

Between the 1970s and the 1990s, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany produced a series of educational films designed to present a wide range of professions in meticulous detail. In OVERWORK, Céline Berger breathes new life into this archival material.
Celine Berger
Germany

2025, 10'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Paper Trail

A life told through scraps of paper, in just 14 minutes. The new film by don hertzfeldt — the American filmmaker nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with World of Tomorrow (2016), which also screened at IndieLisboa — is a frenetic exercise, darting between the concrete and the abstract, between colored pencil and blue ballpoint pen, and bursting with inventive energy.
don hertzfeldt
United States

2025, 14'
IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

PARA VIVIR The Implacable Time of Pablo Milanés

As a tribute for posterity, Fabien Pisani opens the drawers of the private life of the influential Cuban voice Pablo Milanés, nueva trova founder. From there he draws archival footage, weaving it together with interviews with the singer himself, family members, and artistic collaborators (Chico Buarque, Fito Páez). It is the portrait of a brilliant generation of musicians whose words today reveal their disillusionment with a revolution they now consider to have failed.
Fabien Pisani
Mexico / Spain / United States

2025, 107'
International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Paradaïz

The absurd walks in through the front door, and the house itself becomes the protagonist. In her debut film, multidisciplinary artist Matea Radic draws on hand-drawn animation, family photographs, and a distinctly personal sense of irony to return to war-scarred Sarajevo, the city she left behind as a child. What does attachment really mean?
Matea Radic
Canada

2025, 9'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Pat and Mat: Air Conditioner

It’s a scorching summer, and Pat and Mat prefer playing table football indoors. Even then, they’re hot, so they invent all sorts of ways to cool down.
Marek Beneš
Czech Republic

2025, 8'
Smart7
IndieLisboa 2026

Patty Is Such a Girly Name

Originally from a remote Greek island, Daphne, a teenage judoka, moves to Athens to pursue her Olympic dream. Soon, all the obstacles inherent to this new life begin to rise before her: the pressures of competition, a coach with a hidden past, and confusing feelings she had never known before. A coming-of-age story set in the uncharted waters of sexuality, intertwined with the web of interests and lies behind the scenes of the sporting world.
Giorgos Georgopoulos
Greece

2025, 113'
Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

Pequeno País

After losing their home, a father tries to protect his son from their new reality.
Nicolau Botequilha
Portugal

2025, 20'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Phantoms of July

Precarity as a unifying force. A German waitress and an Iranian YouTuber despair for different reasons, yet in this film—almost caricatured in its inevitability—all roads lead to Rome. That is to say: it was written that their ill-fated destinies would meet. What follows is a mountainous odyssey in search of ghosts.
Julian Radlmaier
Germany

2025, 90'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Piccolo Piccolo

Somewhat anguished, caught in that lonely feeling incapable of resolving anything, a small mouse makes a decision — perhaps as an odyssey of self-discovery — to climb an enormous mountain.
Marta Gennari
France / Switzerland

2026, 8'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Playing Drunk

Documentary film(mast)er Jan visits the (playing) drunk slave HD. Playing Drunk is the new film by Jan Soldat—a German filmmaker who has devoted his body of work to exploring sexuality, intimacy, fetish, and, ultimately, love — and marks his return to the festival after being featured in the Focus section at IndieLisboa in 2015.
Jan Soldat
Austria / Germany

2025, 11'
Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Ploo

Everything happens on the screen. In Ploo, an elderly owner of a vector-technology shop confronts the idea of death with the precious help of a moth. The human condition, too, is a matter of mathematics.
Jon Frickey
Germany

2025, 15'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Polliwog

On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.
Julia Skala
Germany

2024, 9'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Providence and the Guitar

In a distant past, Léon and Elvira, itinerant artists, make a living hopping from town to town. In Covarronca, harassed by the Commissioner, they are forced to spend the night out in the open. That’s when they meet Stubbs, a Cambridge student, with whom they find shelter in the home of a painter at odds with his wife. Meanwhile, a curse sends them into the 21st century, where the future of social security and of a rock band are at stake.
João Nicolau
Portugal

2026, 125'
Retrospective
Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

Punishment Park

A group of convicts is subjected to the harshest punishment: crossing a desert with no water or provisions in exchange for the promise of freedom — all while being pursued by particularly brutal military forces. Invited by the U.S. government, a television crew documents the ordeal. The film ran in theaters for only four days before being banned by the Nixon administration, which claimed it presented a distorted image of the United States, strikingly resonant today.
Peter Watkins
United States

1971, 88'
IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Quentin Blake’s Box Of Treasures: Mrs Armitage on Wheels

The primary goal is to visit her cousin Angela. Yet more often than not, the journey and its misadventures surpass the destination. Mrs. Armitagem and her dog, Breakspear, set out to invent a bicycle: and that is their grand adventure.
Massimo Fenati, Gerrit Bekers
United Kingdom / Belgium / France

2024, 26'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Quietness

The hotel breathes. It rustles. It waits. Yessica is the only one who hears it, the only one who sees what’s writhing beneath the surface. Today, she takes action.
Gonçalo Almeida
Spain

2025, 9'
National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Raw Material

Raw Material was filmed over a year in the Interior Douro region. Through testimonies from local communities, the film reflects on different, at times conflicting, notions of value in relation to the landscape and how practices of cultivation, preservation and extraction benefit and impact the people who live there. A film that explores ideas of what is contained but not immediately visible within the land.
James Newitt
Portugal

2025, 36'
Retrospective
Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

Real Life

The promise comes from Albert Brooks himself in the comedy-laden prologue: Real Life will be the next big step in documentaries about real family life — a claim made in full awareness that, six years before its release, the An American Family (1973) series of PBS had already become a phenomenon. Here, the family in question is the Yeagers, from Phoenix. Brooks and his crew move into their home, cameras at the ready, and promptly begin to sow chaos.
Albert Brooks
United States

1979, 99'

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