29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

INDIELISBOA 2026

Retrospective
Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

Real Snow White

An adult woman heads to Disneyland Paris dressed as Snow White. As she approaches the gates, she is stopped by security, who prevent her from entering on the grounds that there is already a Snow White inside the park. The tourist is confused: isn’t this Disneyland? Aren’t people supposed to dress up as the characters?
Pilvi Takala
Finland

2009, 9'

Brand New
IndieLisboa 2026

Reflection, Improvisation

Through improvisation, we emerge into a visual and aural experience, where we follow a musician. Reflection, Improvisation is a film that introduces Gabriel Ferrandini, one of the biggest names on drums in Portugal. We follow his work from rehearsals to the production of his new album.
Miguel Brás
Portugal

2025, 12'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Return to al-Main

In the early hours of May 13, 1948, the village of al-Ma’in, in the northern Negev desert, Palestine, was invaded by Israeli troops, and its inhabitants were expelled. Among them was the Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta, who, through a years-long collaboration with Forensic Architecture — a multidisciplinary collective that uses architectural tools and techniques to investigate human rights violations — reconstructed the land where he was born using 3D technology.
Forensic Architecture
United Kingdom

2025, 31'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Rio Remains Beautiful

The streets of Rio de Janeiro overflow with samba — it is Carnival. Ilma writes to her son, whose whereabouts have long been unknown; in her letter, she sends news of her country, itself faded or perhaps never truly found, a victim of a history of colonization that continues to breed oppression. Every celebration carries its reverse side.
Felipe Casanova
Belgium / Brazil / Switzerland

2025, 24'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Rose

In the village, he became known as the Soldier. He arrived with a document identifying him as the heir to an abandoned farm. It was there, sometime in the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years’ War, in this German Protestant settlement, that he gradually earned the trust of the locals, presenting himself as a hardworking and devout man. Yet it is all part of a grand illusion — one that soon begins to surface in dangerous ways. Actress Sandra Hüller won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Markus Schleinzer
Austria / Germany

2026, 93'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Rose of Nevada

For a long time, nothing good has happened in this small fishing village in Cornwall. But fortune may be about to change. “The Rose of Nevada”, a vessel lost at sea three decades ago, mysteriously reappears — with only one chance left: to return to the water, so that fair winds may once again blow through this community. Yet on its second return, the new crew comes face to face with the past. Time has slipped back thirty years. 
Mark Jenkin
United Kingdom

2025, 114'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Round 3

The new school year brings challenges for 14 year old Sana. She is starting at a new school where she will learn all the ins and outs of the world of baking. In the evenings she is training hard for her very first international boxing match. In a couple of weeks she and her team mates are invited to fight at the Olympic Center in Pisa. How will she cope, combining these two big passions that are both demanding a lot of her? Will she manage to juggle both and succeed in finding her footing?
Liesbeth De Mey
Belgium

2024, 16'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Roundabout

The hierarchy begins in the elementary school playground, the center of life at that age. The tumultuous episodes of early friendships can last forever. 
Zoe Schmidt
Austria

2025, 12'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

Rua (This is not a movie, it’s a comet)

A journey through the universe of musician and composer Vítor Rua, from pop-rock music to opera, passing through repetitive-minimalism and improvised music.
Nuno Calado, Bigos Campaniço
Portugal

2026, 62'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Rui Carlos

Summer, 80s. Rui Carlos and his friends spend their afternoons playing football. When the ball gets punctured, he is left alone to deal with the responsibility and challenges of adult life.
Margarida Paias
Portugal

2025, 16'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Sketches on Ice

It snowed! Lou and Marius are playing in the street, building a snowman. But Mom calls them back home. Marius has to practice clarinet, and Lou has homework to do! Pfff! … Lou opens her notebook and begins her exercises. Marius plays a few hesitant notes, but… incredible! Outside, the snowman has moved!
Marion Auvin
Belgium / France

2025, 4'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

Slet 1988

In 1988, at the last major public performance of communist Yugoslavia before the outbreak of war, Sonja Vukićević — one of Serbia’s great dancers, also known for her anti-Milošević activism — performed a historic solo before a packed stadium. In a gymnasium in present-day Belgrade, we watch her return to the field: her body as an archive of collective memory.
Marta Popivoda
Germany / France / Serbia

2025, 22'

National Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

So They May Live On

At night, somewhere in an old farmhouse, by the light of an oil lamp, a whistle sounds, the curtain rises and a show with talking puppets begins. Biblical fables are performed, such as The Story of the Creation of the World.
Carlos Lima
Portugal

2026, 24'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Son

The son lives on the streets; the mother walks the avenues in search of traces. The only proof of life are the graffiti he leaves on the city’s walls — which she begins to document. Then, as if that paint were a letter, she takes up the spray can in search of a reply. 
Leona Cauklija
Sweden

2025, 13'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

Stallion and a Crystal Ball

Behind closed curtains, in the murky bedroom of a young man with ambitions of sorcery, unfolds the second short film by Catalan Christian Avilés — a filmmaker deeply interested in the hidden spirituality of adolescence. 
Christian Avilés
Spain

2026, 18'

IndieMusic
IndieLisboa 2026

Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

The man, almost a myth, who in 1914 was born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, soon became Sun Ra – a solar figure at the heart of the twentieth-century free jazz movement; an Egyptologist who, in that cradle of civilisation, discovered Afrofuturism; a philosopher who founded his own cosmogony and channelled it through a keyboard. Through testimonies from members of his Sun Ra Arkestra and archival recordings, Christine Turner unveils the galaxy of this trailblazer. A film, a meteor, a journey through time.
Christine Turner
United States

2025, 84'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

Tatarang!

What do dogs love to do most? Roam freely and make new friends. Tatarang is no exception.
Manri KIM
South Korea

2024, 6'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

Taxi Moto

A love story between two men — that was always the premise. But barred from filming it in his home country, the director was forced to reinvent it elsewhere, in another geography, with a different protagonist. The celebrated fusion of reality and fiction. Cinema as an act of discovery — and love.
Gaël Kamilindi
France / Switzerland

2026, 20'

Mouth of Madness
IndieLisboa 2026

Thanks To Meet You!

In a performance hall, five businessmen attempt to close a deal. Yet whether it’s the increasingly disturbing turn of the conversation or the sinister manners that begin to surface, something feels off — an absurd comedy by Richard Hunter. 
Richard Hunter
United Kingdom

2025, 13'

Rhizome
IndieLisboa 2026

That Unique Gaze of Yours

Two women share the same space, in another time. As we contemplate the gaze of both, a question arises: why is one of them probably the most well-known Portuguese woman in the world, while the other has been almost erased from our history and collective memory? In this film-poem, I summon an image in an attempt to decipher the enigmatic gaze of filmmaker Bárbara Virgínia.
Luísa Sequeira
Portugal

2026, 15'

IndieJúnior
IndieLisboa 2026

That’s My Sister

Camille is a teenager with Down syndrome whose greatest wish is to join a semi-professional dance company. On the day of the audition, she and her sister Agathe come to realise that, after all, nothing changed.
Zoé Pelchat
Canada

2026, 15'

International Competition
IndieLisboa 2026

The Apple Doesn’t Fall…

Sentences are projected, but no reply ever comes. Movements are cold and unhurried — so that nothing can catch anyone off guard. Everything is calculated. Everything is plastic. Everything is exactly as it must be. Father, mother and daughter comply with what is written in their script: a façade-family performing a choreography they call home.
Dean Wei
China

2026, 19'

Silvestre
IndieLisboa 2026

The Bewilderment of Chile

A family from Lugo, Spain, owns the confitería Ritz, an institution in the Argentine city of La Plata. It is here that everything unfolds, through a series of strange, funny and melancholic events that suggest a succession of tableaux rather than a conventional narrative sequence—very much in keeping with Lucía Seles’ cinematic language. Lost characters drift through the story, caught in a quiet despair shaped by their inability to communicate.
Lucía Seles
Argentina

2025, 119'

Retrospective
Mockumentary Retrospective
IndieLisboa 2026

The Blair Witch Project

Three students travel to Maryland to shoot a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch, concerning a witch who supposedly vanished in the forest only to return and haunt the town. As their research unfolds, the friends lose their way and the circumstances grow increasingly sinister, everything documented by their cameras. The 1999 film by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez became a classic of horror cinema, a global phenomenon that established a new paradigm for the found-footage subgenre.
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
United States

1999, 81'

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