Hong Kong is the place where Simon Liu grew up and the director’s relationship with the region – which has been the site of protests with the People’s Republic of China – permeates this film. From the small pleasures to images of recent events, it all works as a tribute or as a call to attention.
Gravayat mixes images from the past, from the 50s to the 70s, and contemporary images to show connections and developments in the Seine-Saint-Denis area, on the outskirts of Paris, a place of precarious housing, whose populations are always under attack.
An investigation regarding vulnerability and security, challenge and resistance, as well as the figures that still haunt the city streets.
A documentary that spends time with Marion and Peter, a Dutch couple who lost their farm in the fire that devastated Pedrógão Grande in the summer of 2017. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, they try to rebuild what they can, with the little they have.
A Room in Town is a game of references and a tribute to director Jacques Demy. It’s also an opportunity for the two directors to recall Demy’s A Room in Town (the film’s namesake) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the importance these movies had for them.
An analysis of the director’s relationship with his father and the reasons why he distanced himself from the house he grew up in. Sometimes you have to grow faster.
Rafa senses an eminent farewell, remembering bygone places, encounters and fleeting connections.
It is with images of Domingos de Oliveira Santos, a surgeon turned filmmaker, that Edgar Pêra composes a mosaic that goes beyond home videos, rushing beyond them.
Is it the cold, or thirst, maybe hunger, or fear of the dog? This baby personified in a small fire cries without his friends, animals and other fantastic creatures, realizing why. To cheer him up, they launch rockets, bring cakes and invent the catchiest song ever.
Snip, Snap and Snut are fun characters that inhabit a clay world. They have already had a television series and a previous film, but they return by the hand of their directors to explore the magic of colors.
Luke Fowler continues to create posthumous portraits of relevant figures. In this film, he evokes the life of music producer Patrick Cowley, the pioneer of Hi-NRG, a genre of electronic music, in the late 70s, and a prolific artist of the San Francisco cultural scene.
Six tense minutes in which a car mechanic opens a Pandora-hood that reveals something primordial that haunts him.
In Granary Squares, our perspective is that of the surveillance camera over a new development in King’s Cross, London. Over the course of an hour, we get closer through this lens to a series of everyday moments lived in the square, in a zoom that keeps narrowing down.
(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival)
Restored in 2014 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, in association with the National Cinema Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation.
A portrait of the Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova that is presented as a visual poem, composed of tableaux representing his life. An enigmatic meditation on art that was such a departure from the Soviet realism of its era that the authorities prevented its distribution outside Armenia.
[Based on Sayat Nova’s biography and poetry]
Presentation: Elisabete Marques
(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival)
An Italian drama based on the homonymous play by Luigi Pirandello. Marcello Mastroianni is the protagonist of the film, a character who is under the illusion, the result of trauma, that he is the Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist tries to bring him to the present reality, where the woman who loves him (Claudia Cardinale) awaits. Music by Astor Piazzolla.
[Based on the play by Luigi Pirandello]
Presentation: to be announced
Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and the cinema of the Lumière brothers and other figures that marked the seventh art is revisited. With the participation of French actor Luc Saint-Eloy.
Edgar Wright is known for films such as Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Baby Driver. Now he presents a documentary about The Sparks, an eclectic and eccentric musical duo who are described as “your favorite band’s favorite band”. To talk about the myth and let the world know about these two brothers, Wright gathers interviews with musicians and comedians, including Beck, Neil Gaiman, Björk, Patton Oswalt, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jack Antonoff or even Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls).
Film that takes as a starting point the exhibition Pedro Costa: Company — an exhibition dedicated to the Portuguese filmmaker that could also be seen as a collective, given that he was flanked by artists such as Picasso, Bresson, António Reis, John Ford, Jeff Wall, Godard, Rui Chafes or Charlie Chaplin — to continue to create a dialogue between the Portuguese director and the figures that haunt his imagination.