IndieLisboa celebrates every year the independent cinema with its audience and its professional guests who visit the festival as jurys, directors, distributors, among others. However, our audience opinions are also very important, including our youngest spectators.
Therefore, IndieJunior as also an audience award elected by our young and attentive spectators. This year they chose The Club of Ugly Children by Jonathan Elbers as they favorite. The film tells the story of President Isimo who decides to capture all ugly children. The 11-year-old Paul is an insecure boy with big ears. After a photo shoot Paul and a few ugly classmates are sent on a ‚Äòschool trip’. In the bus, Paul soon realised that this was not just a trip, but that the children are being shipped off to a secret place. He starts to come up with a plan to escape…