Smart7 — IndieLisboa

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

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A new cooperation network has emerged that brings together 7 festivals from 7 different countries, with the intention of encouraging the circulation of European titles. The section is competitive, itinerant and collaborative, with a selection of 7 chosen films representing all member countries.

Smart7

A new cooperation network has emerged that brings together 7 festivals from 7 different countries, with the intention of encouraging the circulation of European titles. The section is competitive, itinerant and collaborative, with a selection of 7 chosen films representing all member countries.

Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

We’re in an old flat turned AirBnB. The stories that unfold are those of its consecutive guests, each with their woes and heart troubles — whether it’s dealing with a frustrating marriage, infertility or the clunky moves when trying to impress someone you like. But there are also those who, after tidying up and, in the process, erasing the traces of their narratives, are living their own story.

Lithuania / Ireland / Latvia

2023, 112'

Greice

Greice, a 21-year-old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts University in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with a mysterious guy, Afonso. The couple is accused of a strange accident that occurs at the students’ welcoming night party. Greice needs to return to Fortaleza. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering the problems in which she was involved, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.

Leonardo Mouramateus

Portugal / Brazil

2024, 110'

It’s Not My Film

On a beach by the Baltic in winter, a broken couple, on the brink of separation invent a game to decide their future. The result could be deciding to stay together, or it could be leaving the beach and never looking back, their relationship over, their lives torn apart. The rules of the game are not necessarily simple and what is at stake is the most important thing: love.

2024, 99'

Natatorium

A psychological thriller that marks the feature film debut of Iceland’s Helena Stefánsdóttir. In Reykjavík, Lilja searches for her place in a dance group and navigates the strangeness of her grandparents’ house, a strangeness that is peeled away in eccentric rituals, with a swimming pool in a basement as an additional and mysterious element, until the discovery of a family secret with ruinous consequences.

Helena Stefánsdóttir

Iceland / Finland

2024, 105'

On the Go

The secret is not to stop. This is a film that takes the concept of the road movie and runs with it, pushing the sense of chaos and pandemonium to the limits to give us the story of a moment in the life of an unlikely trio, three different people who end up being a force to be reckoned with. Milagros, Jonathan and La Reina de Triana navigate the vicissitudes of identity, sexuality and desire, but always with a modern and, above all, non-conformist slant.

Julia de Castro, María Gisèle Royo

2023, 72'

The Summer With Carmen

A queer comedy that begins on a gay cruising Greek beach, but where the idea is no longer to relax but to work. Work on an idea for a film, a first feature. This is the premise for an exploration of the world of two best friends, Demosthenes and Nikitas (the director in search of inspiration), in which the past becomes inspiration and the plot of the future film is tied to a dog called Carmen.

Zacharias Mavroeidis

2023, 106'

Where Elephants Go

The family circumstances are tragic: Leni is battling an illness that is breaking her down, and her mother is working day and night (as a lady of the night) to take care of her daughter and her health. There is little imagination in their lives. Until the day Marcel comes along, a playwright marked by aloofness who will find his convictions challenged by Leni’s desire to make the most of life.

Catalin Rotaru, Gabi Sarga

2024, 111'