IndieLisboa Independent International Film Festival has plenty of reasons to celebrate and the program for the 11th edition shows it very well. One of the special programs comes along with the celebrations for the 40 years it has been since the revolution. After four decades, honoring everyone that rebelled against the dictatorship, we praise the fight for freedom with the program Carnation Republic: Long Live the Revolution.
On the eve of one of the most important dates in Portuguese history, celebration comes with a special program. Composed by three new productions, these films take us back in diversified ways to the country of that year and show us the intense transformation moved by rebellion and consciousness.
Longwave, by Lionel Baier, a co-production between Switzerland and Portugal, unveils an unusual perspective of the events of 1974. As a comic relief, a Swiss TV crew lands in an apparently lethargic country days before the revolution waking up later in a free, euphoric Portugal.
Another Way to Fight by Carlos Antunes revisits his militancy past when he’s confronted with 13 questions made by writer Nuno Bragança. A film directed by João Pinto Nogueira is exhibited on the 26th of April, at 6PM in Cinema São Jorge (Manoel de Oliveira) and in the same cinema but in a different room, the film is exhibited at 6.45PM on the 1st of May.
Changing Life – José Mário Branco, life and work by Pedro Fidalgo e Nelson Guerreiro, documents the work and life of the portuguese musician, his generation beliefs against the dictatorship and the Colonial War, his arrest and exilium consequently ending with the revolution. This film is stringed along with the section IndieMusic and will be exhibited in its opening session. On the 25th, at 9.45PM in Cinema São Jorge (Manoel de Oliveira) and on the 27th of April, Portuguese music will invade the audience’s memory and hearts.
The changes in the Portuguese society after that week in April are also exalted in others national films throughout the extensive program IndieLisboa has this year (Alentejo, Alentejo; The Revolution Hunter; Thick Skinned, etc), highlighting even more the festival’s strong contribution for this cinematographic reflection on the revolution and its traces in our days.