Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

IndieLisboa 2021 • Special Screenings

USA, Documentary, 2021, 117′

Musician and DJ (and composer and journalist, among others) Questlove signs — in his own name, as Ahmir Khalib Thompson — this documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The festival lasted six weeks and featured performances by Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone. But it got lost in the collective memory.

Vieirarpad

Special Screenings

‹

Films in the same section

See all Films

+
Albufeira
A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a promotional film encouraging tourism in the Algarvian city (as is Lisboa, Jardim da Europa), showing, however,
+
A Film Like This
João Botelho brings Alexandre O’Neill back to the silver screen after Um Adeus Português. In a film with a penchant for the musical and the oneiric, the cast includes Pedro Lacerda, Inês Castel-Branco,
+
SITA – the life and times of Sita Valles
Sita Valles was born in Angola, in 1951, but studied Medicine in Lisbon, where she became a communist student leader. After 1974, and because she considered that the revolution in
+
Young Mr. Cunhal
The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho's camera, in a
+
A Name for What I Am
Maria Lamas became known as a Portuguese feminist political activist, as well as a translator and journalist, who wrote a fundamental work, As Mulheres do Meu País, which intimately and meticulously
+
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
The journey in question is that of Pedro IV of Portugal and Pedro I of Brazil, the king who became known as the “Liberator”, for having given Brazil its independence.
+
Zéfiro
A film that walks through Lisbon as a documentary, but what it really wants is to fly over the Tagus River in full fictional mode, in order to explore the
+
LISBON, happy and sad city
In the 1950s, Victor Palla and Manuel Costa, two architect friends, portrayed the city of Lisbon in more than 6000 photographs. These are published in an eponymous book circulated in