“Stalingrad Lovers” is the first fiction film by Fleur Albert — still, a dramatic story inspired by the lost lives of drug users and drug dealers in the Parisian neighbourhood of Stalingrad.)
Secção: Special Screenings
Sunny Afternoon is the confrontation of “kind of” an avant-garde film with “kind of” music video, asking questions about the conventions, standard taboos and cliché of different types and genres of film. Music and sound were tailored to characterize typical cliché of different genres as well.)
An old Mexiacan melodrama from the 50s gets reworked into a narrative about an experimental filmmaker making his next film in the town of Uso Justo.)
A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.)
Heddy Honigmann follows one of the most respected orchestras in the world – the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – throughout several continents. “Around the World in 50 Concerts” shows how music is a place of freedom against political and personal oppressions and opens the way for our pursuit of happiness.)
Milos Forman’s first fiction film about the sentimental education of a young man and one of the best examples of the European New Wave in the 1960’s.)
“Gospel of Anasyrma” is a love story between a young adult and a transgender in Tbilisi suburbs, Georgia.)
“Here is Lisbon” is a film directed by Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, and Marie Losier to celebrate Indielisboa’s tenth anniversary. Four different short-films filmed in Lisbon that celebrate the richness and values of independent filmmaking.)
Short-film about the history and legends of Serpa’s landscape.)
“Kurz davor ist es passiert” redefines the process of documentary filmmaking. By making a film about human trafficking, Anja Salomonowitz tells the story of its victims not by filming them, but by making other people (apparently with no relation to their stories) tell them through their bodies and daily lives.)
“Over the years” follows ten years in the life of a small Austrian town during and after the closure of its textile industry.)
We the pleb, we the barbarians!)
Although cinema is a young centenary art, the light and shadows that gave birth to it have been living since the beginning of human existence. João Botelho’s new film follows their trace in the Côa Valley, one of the largest prehistoric rock-art sites in the world.)
It’s not wrong to want love – you just need to look for it in the right place.)
“The Lurking Fear” interviews Portuguese citizens whose lives where hit by the torture of its fascist political police (PIDE/DGS) and the work of its informants.)
Second feature film by Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa: an intimate and delicate portrait of a young woman and her fear of repression and physical abuse in her country.)
Captain Falcon was the national fascist superhero that Portugal and António de Oliveira Salazar were waiting for. The rest is history.)
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life… The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.)