In 1993, Paulo Seabra bought, cheap, all the assets of the photographic studio Paris, in Lisbon: tens of paper boxes, with hundreds of boxes and thousands of negatives. In this first and exclusive version for the IndieLisboa festival, the film documents the opening and discovery of much of these negatives.
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2008. Qingtian, Zhejiang province, People´s Republic of China. A small rural city from where Chinese immigrate to Europe. Jin Wang Ping is a young man who’s turn to leave his home town has arrived. Faced with the prospect, and process, of emigration, he will look for other’s advice.
Anne has a problem in her apartment: it trembles. One day she decides to solve the problem once and for all and stop with the domestic solutions that avoid the object’s vibrations. Just like a documentary, we discover neighbors and friends in interviews a
If our belief in faith is enough for us to go through the worst probation in life, and even risking it, what happens when we find the “noble savage” and he offers to help us? Kelly Reichardt ‘s return to IndieLisboa (after Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy), i
Through an initial sequence of rigorous fixed images, Seabra Lopes and Akerman present us a delicious comedy sewed with classical music. The poet is Goethe, the musician is Schubert. The three pupils dislike the teacher’s rigor and they are going to show
A disturbing film about the interior devils of each person. The effect “red eyes” registered in some photos turns into the leitmotiv of a story that balances between tenderness and pure horror. An ambiance film. And it’s not an ambiance we can breathe…
A dark film on adolescence in which the main character Johan (11) faces a moral dilemma after having started playing a seemingly innocent prank. The story unfolds on a psychological level in the turbulent transition between childhood and adulthood.
A young Portuguese boy and his adopted Angolan sister are departing from Lisbon for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their mother realizes they are having a secret love affair. Their father is revealed to be profiting from infrastructure development investments. They have a moral decision to made while on the field of battle.
Every year millions of tourists come to Portugal to discover the country, the people and the culture. Many come in contact with tour guides. They convey history and national identity, illustrating how we regard ourselves and how we wish to present ourselves. The film is about how this identity is built and interpreted.
Leila was involved in a mysterious car accident that her mind has blocked from her memory. Now it’s summer, and Leila escapes on a Roman holiday to tend to her wounds in the arms of her sister, Anna. But the two sisters can’t connect and if Leila’s going to recover, she’ll have to take the first steps alone.
Along with “Neil Young: Heart of Gold” and a yet-unfinished film, it’s a part of a Neil Young triptyc being created by Demme. The film features Young, captured over two nights in 2007 at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. It includes a blistering 23-mi
This Jay Rosenblatt’s essay follows an old man in a journey through what we could perceive as his memory. Archetypes of happiness in childhood, of normality as an adult and eventually, in the old age, of conscience of death. A tribute to his deceased fath
An ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition color over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife.
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions. In stark, luminous terms, “Wendy and Lucy” addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times.
Constantinopla, 1910. The Turkish government decides to erradicate thousands of abandoned dogs that wonder through the city. The solution is to send them to an isolated island, and to their own luck. Animating as if he was painting a tableau, Avédikian
On her 13th birthday, Emma visits her father. He’s not at home, but his new boyfriend, Casper, is. They haven’t met before and he is not aware of the special occasion. He asks her to stay, but it turns out that the situation is as much of a challenge for
In April 1986, Maxim Surkow was evacuated to Kiev three days after the Chernobyl catastrophe – along with 48,000 of the other inhabitants of Pripjat. Now he is searching for traces of his childhood among the apartment blocks of a ghost town.
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David e Eric, dois irmãos nos seus vinte anos, gerem “The Ranch”, o snack bar de um parque de campismo perdido entre as dunas de uma fabulosa praia da Normandia. Estamos no fim da estação, surfistas e turistas escasseiam. Dominado pela “inércia” geral, David e Bouclette (a instrutora do clube de póneis) tentam planear o período de época baixa e os meses que se aproximam. No entanto, Eric, o irmão mais velho, parece atormentado. Já está “noutra”. Certo dia, desaparece de vez.