Based upon testimonies from the workers of the house, we slowly enter in a whispered absurd and delirious story. Those who coexist there reach the conclusion that the house was inhabited by terrorists. The facts of the crime are only evidences of the imag
The “House” is the place where the grandmother of the director ever lived in. Visual and sound distortions introduce us into the universe of an old person whose personality is irrevocably intertwined with the various objects that surround her. A place whe
Ali is Turkish and has a tailoring shop. He built a mannequin. Her name is Chantal. Everyday he perfects her. He takes her home and retouches her details. And everyday he puts her back by his shop window.
Starting off on his 62nd birthday, the film follows the extraordinary journey of singer Charles Bradley during the electrifying and transformative months leading up to the release of his debut album No Time for Dreaming. Despite being abandoned as a child, a period of homelessness, the devastating loss of his brother and constant poverty, Charles never gave up on his life long dream to be a professional singer. Following this unprecedented success, Charles’ star has continued to rise.
An incursion into the universe of the fishermen that stay on earth. A fish in a bathtub in a social neighborhood. It must be kept alive against all expectations and when everything around it degrades. A meditative film, somewhat urban, in which a man of t
Mare decides to leave her husband Janko and Janko unable to cope with the new reality of abandonment and sexual frustration reacts violently towards his family deteriorating things. A modern middle-class family drama about a marriage that fell apart durin
Portugal, beginning of the new millennium.
Liza is a young Russian immigrant married to Vitor, a Portuguese man. He is in fact a petty crook who lives off scams and tricking old ladies. Their son, Mauro, is a strange child who has decided not to speak Fer
Pablo Larrain returns to IndieLisboa, after his highly successful “Tony Manero” with a gripping political critique. The time is 1973, the place Chile, the days that dictator Pinochet turned against the socialist president Salvador Allende. A frustrated mo
Three beats. Three movements. Three moments of passion as overwhelming as fleeting. Three heartily laughs. Three corners for an eternity. Reality is ephemeral, as well as the surrounding landscape. And Lisbon has never been so beautiful. In his first directing experience, Bonenfant says it loud and clear. (M. V.)
Can a film with a static shot be an action film? Yes, if the director has the mastery of Kevin Jerome Everson, an inventive and multifaceted filmmaker. Century is a precious object with an unusual analytical skill. A car is crushed until it disappears. Is this possible? It is. Before our restless gaze, the machine continues its work of destruction. (M. V.)
Like a dream in the morning mist, a mighty ox emerges from the rain-soaked earth dragging the remnants of an old cart. A prisoner of its yoke, the great beast pulls its heavy load, which carries within it a greedy and angry nation of people‚Äîa hungry parasite that saps its energy and consumes its body and soul. An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, Bydlo is a tragic vision inspired by the fourth movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, Patrick Bouchard brings the earth to life through animated clay sculptures, creating a concrete and terrifying world, a tactile nightmare in which man is his own slave driver.
Burn is a video installation that shows the inside of a burning house and how the flames consume objects – the inside of a refrigerator, furniture – as its inhabitants remain unchanged, without panic or agitation. They sleep or read and a man puts out a small fire in his own clothes with a sandwich.
A group of people is invited to view a film “lively” with binocular in the midst of the Californian desert . When the action reaches them with the speed of a tire gaining life to kill, this film becomes a horror movie. Quentin Dupieux knowingly got the 70
The collective Flatform takes us through the visual and sonorous countryside universe. Suddenly the elements look as if they were moving… the image is assembled and disassembled. A reflection upon space and the moving image. (M.C.)
A father and his teenage son travel to Berlin. The boy has never met his mother who is in hospital with a koma. The father is confronted by his uncertain past. Both are unsettled by the winter gloom in the unfamiliar big city, and by the hostile environme
Three people prepare for a swimming proof. The award will be the grant of the citizenship for the best country of the world. A surreal approach to the emigration universe in which all the images are traversed by an almost apocalyptical aesthetic. An inten
The powerful animal breathes and bellows in the shadows. Outside, everyone waits for him: they talk, scream, eat, drink. The show will begin. (M. C.)
In Sugar, a woman steps out of a refrigerator and brings her body back to life. A dizzying journey inside the human mind, where the boundary between reality and fantasy/psychosis is tenuous.