{"id":93943,"date":"2026-03-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/?p=93943"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:59:43","slug":"projectos-seleccionados-indielab-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/2026\/03\/06\/projectos-seleccionados-indielab-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the selected projects for IndieLisboa Lab 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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IndieLisboa Lab is a mentoring workshop for film and audiovisual projects, created within the IndieLisboa Festival in partnership with Project Paradiso, which in 2026 will once again provide a stage for new film talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This film writing lab is led by Fernanda Polacow and focuses on the development of projects with non-normative characters, seeking to foster dialogue around inclusion and representation in cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selected projects for IndieLisboa Lab 2026 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ana Baldini e Roly Witherow
Gil Vicente, The Frog and The Ass<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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An eccentric group lives amid dark fantasies and repressed desires until they are transported to an alternate Vincentian reality.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriela Giffoni
Strange, Strange, Strange<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Lisbon, three women\u2014linked by past and present romantic relationships\u2014try to realize their artistic projects while facing precarious jobs, financial difficulties, and relationship issues. A film about romantic misadventures strained by contemporary job insecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>

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Diogo Gazella de Carvalho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estar Habituado \u00e9 Amar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eliseu has never known intimacy, but he has grown accustomed to loving in silence the dolls he has built for himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Hugooli
25mg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M\u00e1rcia, a single mother, caregiver for the elderly, and Brazilian immigrant, finds herself in a complicated situation: after one of the elderly people she cared for dies, it becomes difficult to pay the rent, and she sees clinical trials as a temporary solution.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>

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Clara Jost
Still-moving<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A young couple, forced to move due to the housing crisis, discovers a community that preserves the spirit of association with which it built its neighborhood fifty years earlier. With the memories of its inhabitants, some ghosts emerge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Matilde Albuquerque
Ponte das Barcas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joana, a 16-year-old teenager, observes her grandmother’s nightly rituals, lighting candles for the souls of a tragedy that took place over two hundred years ago, during the French Invasions. Between the present and the past, war and collective memory, Ponte das Barcas reveals itself as a spiritual connection between generations and a legacy of female survival.
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Thalita Rubio (Paradiso Scholarship Project)
Melhor n\u00e3o Contar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reunion with her former stepfather leads a woman to confront childhood memories, revisit her intense relationship with her mother, and rethink a secret that has haunted her for years. Is it really better not to tell?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ariel A\u00f1ez
E talvez nunca me vou recordar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the brink of death, an elderly man is taken back to the night of his childhood, when he witnessed his father perform a ritual that connected life and death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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