In 2015, the 12th IndieLisboa will have two major honorees: the festival’s Independent Heroes are the filmmakers Mia Hansen-Løve and Whit Stillman, whom we will welcome in Lisbon from April 23rd to May 3rd.
Although both authors followed a very different path in their directing careers, we have found a common seed that bonds these two universes. Not only they chose to work with Greta Gerwig in their most recent films, Eden and Damsels in Distress, but both fell in love with a youth – one more romantic, one more controlled – that has always enchanted us . Thus, we offer once again an opportunity to discover two filmmakers less known in Portugal (Whit Stillman’s films did not have a national premiere) in two full retrospectives: Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco and Damsels in Distress and Mia Hansen- Løve’s Après mûre reflexion (short film), Tout est pardonné, Le Père de mes enfants, Un Amour de Jeunesse and Eden. Please join us in these two tributes!