Independent Heroes of IndieLisboa’09 In 2009 IndieLisboa will pay tribute to Werner Herzog and Jacques Nolot in the section Independent Hero. 36 shorts and features from the two cinema figures will be shown during the festival giving a unique oportunity to the public to know better Werner Herzog’s work as one of the most important directors of the New German Cinema and Jacques Nolot’s several contributions to the film industry as an actor, a script writer and finally as a director. In previous editions of the festival tributes were paid to José Luis Guerin, Shinji Ayoama, Jay Rosenblatt, Michael Glawogger, Jia Zhang-ke, Edgar Pêra, among others. Werner Herzog Born in Munich, in Germany, in 1942, Werner Herzog has directed more than 40 documentaries and fiction films in 48 years of work. IndieLisboa will show 26 shorts and features from the German director and will also support the translation into portuguese of Grazia Paganelli’s book Signs of Life, Werner Herzog and the Cinema. Grazia Paganelli, a known italian film critic and programer of the Turin Film National Museum, will be comissioning Werner Herzog’s tibute retrospective. Jacques Nolot Jacques Nolot went to Paris very young and met André Téchiné with whom he would work as a script writer and an actor in films such as La Matiouette(1983) and I don’t kiss (J’embrasse Pas, 1991). The tribute paid to Jacques Nolot in IndieLIsboa 2009 is a pioneering initiative in Portugal that includes the exhibition of 10 films where Nolot shows as an actor, a script wirter and a director. Independent Hero Program Werner Herzog 1. Herakles (1962, 12 min.) 2. The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967, 15 min.) 3. Last Words (1968, 13 min.) 4. Signs of Life (1968, 87 min.) 5. Precautions Against Fanatics (1969, 12 min.) 6. Even Dwarf Started Small (1970, 94 min.) 7. Fata Morgana (1971, 79 min.) 8. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, 93 min.) 9. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974, 47 min.) 10. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974, 109 min.) 11. Heart of Glass (1976, 97 min.) 12. Stroszek (1977, 108 min.) 13. La Soufrière (1977, 31 min.) 14. Nosferatu (1979, 103 min.) 15. Woyzeck (1979, 81 min.) 16. Fitzcarraldo (1982, 158 min.) 17. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984, 100 min.) 18. Ballad of Little Soldier (1984, 45 min.) 19. The dark Glow of the Mountains (1985, 54 min.) 20. Portrait Werner Herzog (1986, 35 min.) 21. Cobra Verde (1987, 110 min.) 22. Wodaabe (1989, 52 min.) 23. Lessons of Darkness (1992, 52 min.) 24. Bells from the Deep (1995, 60 min.) 25. My Best Fiend (1999, 95 min.) 26. Pilgrimage (2001, 19 min.) 27. Encounters at the End of the World (2007, 99 min.) Jacques Nolot 1. La Matiouette (1983, 48 min.) ‚ Real. André Téchiné, Arg. e Int: Jacques Nolot 2. Le café des jules (1988, 65 min.) ‚ Real. Paul Vecchiali, Arg. e Int. Jacques Nolot 3. J’Embrasse Pas (1991, 115 min.) – Real. André Téchiné, Arg. e Int: Jacques Nolot 4. La Robe à cerceaux (1992, 24 min.) ‚ Real. Claire Denis, Arg.: Jacques Nolot 5. Manège (1986, 10 min.) ‚ Real. Jacques Nolot 6. Le Café de la Plage (2002, Benoit Graffin) ‚ Real. Benoit Graffin, Int. Jacques Nolot 7. L’Arrière-pays (1997, 90 min.) – Real. Jacques Nolot 8. La Chatte aux Deux Têtes (2002, 87 min.) – Real. Jacques Nolot 9. Avant que j’oublie (2007, 108 min.) – Real. Jacques Nolot