Retrospectives

Retrospective section dedicated to looking at the past of cinema, providing rediscoveries that contribute significantly to the enrichment of the contemporary gaze.

Ousmane Sembène

Together with Cinemateca Portuguesa, IndieLisboa presents the full retrospective of the work of the father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène, a cinema marked by feminism, the class struggle, against the Europeanization of Senegalese culture and the brutality of colonialism. With Sembène, a journey begins from within, a counterpoint to the European vision that dominates film production. These are films that operate a filmic and historical repair, that are not content with stereotypes, do not seek aestheticization. A cinema without calculation or fear of a new language and that breathes freely.

50 Years of Forum Berlinale

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Berlinale Forum, IndieLisboa will screen a selection that includes some of the films shown in its first edition in 1971, at the time called the International Forum of New Cinema. These were films that challenged the status quo and opened the door to new aesthetics. They were reactions to the turbulent politics of their times and, therefore, they were essential to the political phenomenon. At the time, addressing issues such as anti-colonial struggles, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights, opened up new political and cinematic ways.