{"id":10474,"date":"2021-08-03T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/indielisboas-18th-edition-full-programme-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:17:56","slug":"indielisboas-18th-edition-full-programme-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/2021\/08\/03\/indielisboas-18th-edition-full-programme-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"IndieLisboa’s 18th Edition Full Programme Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little less than a month from the beginning of yet another edition of IndieLisboa the full programme is now unveiled. There will be 276<\/strong> films in 9 sections<\/strong> and special<\/strong> screenings<\/strong> that will make up for this 18th edition, the second year in a row taking place in the middle of summer,\u00a0 from August 21 to\u00a0 September 6.<\/p>\n

In a year as important as this one, with the festival reaching adulthood, IndieLisboa returns to the theatres affirming the promotion of voices that cross over its sections,\u00a0 languages. The open-air cinema sessions are also back this year, adding to the usual festival venues \u2013 Cinema S\u00e3o Jorge, Culturgest, Cinema Ideal and Cinemateca Portuguesa \u2013 the Jardim Biblioteca Pal\u00e1cio Galveias, where we can watch cinema on a screen with the sky as its background. Also at the Cinemateca\u2019s Terrace, which will remain open during the month of August,\u00a0 films can be watched almost every night.<\/p>\n

From the retrospective<\/strong> of filmmaker and poet Sarah Maldoror\u2019s masterful body of work,\u00a0 pioneer of African cinema, to the expansive imaginary perpetuated in IndieJ\u00fanior<\/strong> and through films to be watched on warm nights illuminated by the last quarter moon in Mouth of Madness<\/strong>, the festival always celebrates the most distinct of gazes, engaging them in conversation. The same can be said of this year\u2019s National Competition<\/strong>. There are 4 feature films and 19 short films. On the one hand, there are young and irreverent viewpoints, on the other, there’s the affirmation of talent.<\/p>\n

In the feature films, we can find Granary Squares<\/i><\/strong>, the first feature film of Gon\u00e7alo Lamas, a world premiere of a documentary that attempts to test structuralist film tropes with digital means,\u00a0 through the meandering gaze of a made-up surveillance camera into the heart of London\u2019s revamped King\u2019s Cross district. Rock Bottom Riser<\/i><\/strong>, a vibrant film-essay, follows along. Created with images of a volcano in Hawaii, it touches upon themes such as geology, ethnography and astronomy. The first feature film of the Luso-American Fern Silva, which enchanted the Berlinale,\u00a0 the IFFR and came out winning a prize at Cin\u00e9ma du R\u00e9el<\/em>. The filmmaker\u2019s work had already been in competition at IndieLisboa with his short film Notes from a Bastard Child<\/i><\/strong>. Also a first feature film, Simon Calls<\/i><\/strong>, by Marta Sousa Ribeiro, explores the labyrinth that is adolescence,\u00a0 and the emotional frustration that goes alongside it, felt within the film\u2019s temporal management. It had its world premiere at the last edition of San Sebasti\u00e1n\u2019s Festival.\u00a0 Completing this selection of daring, but felt gazes, we find Jack\u2019s Ride<\/i><\/strong>, by the prodigious Susana\u00a0 Nobre, a kind of road movie<\/i>, where we meet a 60-year-old man, a former emigrant one step away from retirement, but bound to respect his employment centre\u2019s red tape so that he can be covered by the government\u2019s benefits. Behind the wheel of a taxi, and after coming back from the USA, he comes across a democratic Portugal, post-Carnation Revolution. It was one of the most celebrated films at the last Berlinale\u2019s Forum section.<\/p>\n

In the short films \u2013 13 with world premieres \u2013, a game of references and a tribute to director\u00a0 Jacques Demy stands out in Um Quarto na Cidade<\/i><\/strong>, by Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues and Jo\u00e3o Rui\u00a0 Guerra da Mata; a delicate film about the touching connection between grandmother and\u00a0 grandson in Boa Noite<\/i><\/strong>, by Catarina Ruivo; the beautiful Transportation Procedures for Lovers<\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0 by Helena Estrela, a synesthetic experience that mediates on what are the best methods of getting closer to those you love; a kaleidoscopic film about what it is to look in 13 Ways of\u00a0 Looking at a Blackbird<\/i><\/strong>, by Ana Vaz; the much celebrated, profoundly shocking The Shift<\/i><\/strong>by\u00a0 Laura Carreira, winner of the Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards\u00a0 2020, and Tracing Utopia<\/i><\/strong>, by Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson, a virtual journey through the dreams and desires of a group of queer <\/i>teenagers from New York. There are also fun proposals by Diogo Lima, Os \u00daltimos Dias de Emanuel Raposo<\/i><\/strong>, a mockumentary <\/i>about a fictitious presenter of the Azorean television, Gar\u00e7as<\/i><\/strong>, a film about a girl\u2019s life after a painful nose operation, by Gabriela Nem\u00e9sio Nobre, or even still a journey inside the rural landscape of\u00a0 Portugal by Daniel Soares, in What Remains<\/i><\/strong>, among so many others.<\/p>\n

Also to be disclosed is the programme of the section Brand New<\/strong>, which shows the first steps of young filmmakers. 13 films within the realms of not only documentary,\u00a0 fiction, animation but also experimental cinema. Miraflores<\/i><\/strong>, by Rodrigo Braz Teixeira,\u00a0 an analysis of innocence and what will come in the future, Party Tattoos<\/i><\/strong>, a documentary by Teresa\u00a0 Sandman in the first-person that focuses on the celebration of past birthdays, Azul e Prata<\/i><\/strong>, by\u00a0 Jo\u00e3o Coroa Justino, a film that is the culmination of seven years of filming, capturing the details and the big picture, and creating from there a symphony of images, and Noctur<\/i><\/strong>, by Ana Vala,\u00a0 in which a camera that wanders the urban streets at night gives out an alien quality to the shown territory.<\/p>\n

Closer attention should be given to this year\u2019s special sessions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s opening film, shown on August 21 in the Manoel de Oliveira screening room at\u00a0 Cinema S\u00e3o Jorge, will kickstart the new edition of the festival under the sign of Summer of\u00a0 Soul (\u2026Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)<\/i><\/strong>, the portentous documentary directed by Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson, known as the drummer for The Roots, about a forgotten\u00a0 1969 music festival. A cultural Harlem, a black Woodstock. And a felt see-you-later after one more edition, with two almost simultaneous sessions of Para\u00edso<\/i><\/strong>, S\u00e9rgio Tr\u00e9faut\u2019s most recent film, shown on September 6 at the Culturgest, a film that pays tribute to a group of elderly people who used to meet up every day at the public gardens of the Pal\u00e1cio do Catete, in Rio de\u00a0 Janeiro, an activity that was forcefully stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. There\u2019s a\u00a0 documentary about the figure of Nuno Portas, one of the great Portuguese urban planners \u2013 The City of Nuno Portas<\/i><\/strong>, by Teresa Prata and Humberto Kzure -, a look at the intimate writing\u00a0 of the artist couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and \u00c1rp\u00e1d Szenes \u2013 Vieirapad<\/i><\/strong>, by Jo\u00e3o M\u00e1rio\u00a0 Grilo -, a meeting between the artist Welket Bungu\u00e9 and Joacine Katar Moreira, an\u00a0 independent parliamentary member \u2013 Upheaval<\/i><\/strong>, directed by actor Welket Bungu\u00e9 -, and O\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>Princ\u00edpio, o Meio, o Fim e o Infinito<\/strong>, <\/i>a film by Pedro Coquen\u00e3o, a multidisciplinary artist – signs with the name Batida – where he places two beings, with faces wrapped in gauze and clearly out of their own Time and Space, reflecting about colonialism, social inequality and other key topics.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s equally important to highlight the 5L and Cinema Programme, the result of a partnership\u00a0 with the new Literary Festival of the city of Lisbon, Lisboa 5L, that puts together five films,\u00a0 masterpieces of cinema, wherein the adaptation, interpretation, transformation or\u00a0 documentation of the five literary dimensions are presented within the cinematic realm. 2001:\u00a0 A Space Odyssey<\/i><\/strong>, by Stanley Kubrick, is a tale. The Color of Pomegranates<\/i><\/strong>, by Sergei Parajanov,\u00a0 poetry. Henry IV<\/i><\/strong>, by Marco Bellocchio, theatre. Fahrenheit 451<\/strong>, <\/i>by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut, a\u00a0 romance. Death in Venice<\/i><\/strong>, by Luchino Visconti, a novel.<\/p>\n

In what it comes to the activities aimed exclusively at professionals, the Lisbon Screenings programme is announced, sessions where new just finished or yet to be finished Portuguese films are currently looking for a world or international premiere. In the new features, there are\u00a0 films by In\u00eas Oliveira, Ana Sofia Fonseca e Jos\u00e9 Filipe Costa. In the shorts, there are films by\u00a0 Diogo Baldaia, \u00c1gata de Pinho, Falc\u00e3o Nhaga, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fernances, Pedro Neves Marques,\u00a0 among others.<\/p>\n

Of the projects that have found a world or international premiere last year at the Lisbon\u00a0 Screenings are the feature films A T\u00e1vola de Rocha<\/i><\/strong>, by Samuel Barbosa, which will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, in the Histoire (s) du Cin\u00e9ma, and will be a part of this year\u2019s programme, in the Director\u2019s Cut section, and Granary Squares, by\u00a0 Gon\u00e7alo Lamas, world premiere at this year\u2019s IndieLisboa\u2019s National Competition. Among the short films, Boa Noite<\/i><\/strong>, by Catarina Ruivo, Cabra Cega<\/i><\/strong>, by Tom\u00e1s Paula Marques, and What\u00a0 Remains<\/i><\/strong> by Daniel Soares, that will have their world premieres at this year\u2019s IndieLisboa\u2019s\u00a0 National Competition.<\/p>\n

Lisbon Screenings<\/strong> are an organization of Portugal Film \u2013 International Agency of Portuguese Cinema, and are held during IndieLisboa.<\/p>\n

The festival will continue until September 8 with additional sessions at Cinema Ideal, where award-winning film sessions will take place, and at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, with film screenings belonging to the retrospective of Sarah Maldoror.<\/p>\n

Full programme and tickets will be available from August 5 onward.<\/p>\n

Images: Jack\u2019s Ride<\/i>, by Susana Nobre Rock Bottom Riser<\/i>, by Fern Silva Para\u00edso<\/i>, by S\u00e9rgio Tr\u00e9faut Boa Noite<\/i>, by Catarina Ruivo<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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