We would like to remind you the main goals of IndieLisboa: to show films that the audience wouldn’t be able to see in other ways, to praise the new cinema made around the world and the filmmakers that dare to be even bolder in their first works, the ones to watch in the future. The section Emerging Cinema fills the void between the cinephilles acquainted with new talents and techniques and the commercial circuit. The invitation is on to discover filmmakers and undisclosed stories that will enchant everyone.
The Filmballad of Mamadada, by Cassandra and Lilly Benson is an ode to the extraordinary Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, dadaist that agitated the city of New York and an agent provocateur of her time. In Naomi Campbel, like the protagonist Yermén, the filmmaker Nicolas Videla and Camila Donoso dwell in two universes, the fictional and real one. Yermén, a transexual that survives as a spiritual telephone guide, while on a waiting room, meets a lady that pursuits the perfect body, the body of Naomi Campbell. The leading man in Blue Ruin is a serial killer, almost by mistake, disastrous and talentless with the need for vengeance. Simultaneously, Jeremy Saulnier, adds a comical and ironic touch to his film. The young filmmaker Jordi Morató has brought to life outstanding images of this person’s archive – they call him Tarzan of Argelaguer – a man that built a labyrinth-city with his own hands and tells his story in The Creator of the Jungle. The leading lady in Suzanne, a film by Katell Quillévéré, is the same lady celebrated in the famous song: the centre of a family falling apart, the still-maturing lady that has everyone’s compassion. Obvious Child, a film by GIllian Robespierre, is a parody of romantic comedies where the spotlight is surely on the actress from Saturday Night Live and stand-up comediant, Jenny Slate.
In A Million Miles Away, along with the music from Judas Priest and Madonna, the filmmaker Jennifer Reeder brings the animosity between a teacher and her students but when they join forces for the same purpose, peace elevates their power as they try to decode a SMS. Takahide Hori emerged from Junk Head 1 after an intense 4 year period, and the result is a cult movie. In a universe that resembles Star Wars and Alien, this Sci-Fi animation is based on the fight between humans and clones. Mi Nina, mi vida, one of the section’s highlights marks the comeback of Yan Giroux to IndieLisboa, a fiction in which a father tries to ease his pain due to his daughter’s absence. Virke Lehtinen has directed plenty of films but lives totally in the darkness, outside Denmark, his country. Hazards is the perfect reason to discover his universe. From Akiro Hellgardt, Hinoke Farm, shows the audience a wealthy couple, after living in the frenetic Tokyo, that moves to distant village and starts a new and completely different lifestyle.