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Programme doclisboa 2008


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October 21 – tuesday

21 OCT. 11.00 – São Jorge (room 2)
Workshop Sony
120´
Registration at: escolas@doclisboa.org

21 OCT. 11.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 26 OCT. 16.15 - Londres (room 2)
High School II RW
Frederick Wiseman
220´USA 1994
25 years after High School, Wiseman goes back to high schools’ world and captures the differences. High School II is a film about a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem where 85% to 95% of graduates go to college. The film illustrates the school's emphasis on the “Habits of Mind” program, whose peculiar approach to learning include: classroom activities in the humanities and sciences; family conferences; discussions of race, class, and gender; faculty meetings; disciplinary problems; sex education; conflict resolution by students; and student council meetings.

21 OCT. 11.00 – São Jorge (room 2)
Workshop Sony
240´
Registration at: escolas@doclisboa.org

21 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 18 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
Polish Shorts CP
Krzysztof Kieslowski
From the City of Lodz, 1968, 18’
I was a Soldier, 1970, 16’
Factory, 1971, 17’
Before the Rally, 1971, 16’
Refrain, 1972, 11’
The Office, 1966, 5’
Betweem Wroclaw and Zielona Gora, 1972, 11’
The Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine, 1972, 21´

21 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1) | 18 OCT. 18.45 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 19 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
We (Wo Men) CI
Huang Wenhai
102’ Switzerland/China 2008
The voices in this film are all of conscious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their ethos is: “Where affairs of state are concerned, we cannot stand by and watch.” And yet, the reward for their concern is a lifetime spent in political turmoil and years of constant intimidation and surveillance. We is a documentary that illustrates the perils of seeking freedom in a time of darkness.

21 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 19 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 23 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
In Public MC
Jia Zhang-Ke
32´ China 2007
A documentary that synthesizes Jia Zhan-Ke’s usual aesthetic concerns, showing us how different people can live in different places. Somewhere between a suspension of time and dimension, or light and shadow, we are transported through several settings: train stations, bus stops, and karaoke or disco places. Shot in Shanxi, one of the country’s oldest provinces, the spectator shares the same feeling of loneliness with the film’s characters that catch a train or take a bus in a landscape of work, uniforms and silence, while they still wait for a new day to come.
Dong MC
Jia Zhang-Ke
70´ China 2005
Filmed by Jia Zhang-Ke while making Still Life, Dong takes us to Fengjie, an old city at the Three Gorges Region that is going to be submerged by the waters of the world’s greatest dam. Demolition works contrast with the work of painter Liu Xiadong, who chooses eleven workers for a painting that he will include in his own new canvas collection. Captivated by the region and the worker’s reality, the artist feels the agony of a world that is ending. He moves on to Thailand, where he continues his painting. Still, under a blazing sun and violent daylight, the artist doesn’t seem to understand the language or the local habits. A portrait of the human condition in two distinct situations with Asia’s image in its common background.

21 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 17 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 24 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
Floating Dust MC
Huang Wenhai
111´ China 2003
Floating Dust shows us the dreams of common people that get together in a gambling club in a small village in the south of China. This is the story of an unemployed group that gathers every day to discuss gambling strategies, lottery winning probabilities and mathematical formulas that try to unlock the mysteries of luck and hidden codes in Teletubbies TV show. Focusing game’s obsession, Floating Dust follows a group of characters playing is own game of illusions for a better life.

21 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 23 OCT. 23.00 – Londres (room 2)
Because We Were Born CI
Jean-Pierre Duret and Andréa Santana
90´ France/Brasil 2008
Brazil, Pernambouc State: a huge service station at the side of an endless road. Cocada, 14 year old boy, lives there in an old truck ever since his father was murdered. He has a dream: to become a truck driver. Nego lives in a favela; he wants to leave and make money. At night, the two boys wander about the service station, fascinated by shops that sell everything. With the singular maturity that one gets very early in adversity, they question themselves about their identity and their future.

21 OCT. 17.00 – São Jorge (room 3)
Salade Maison (Salata Baladi) NF, NI
Nádia Kamel
105´ Egypt/France/Switzerland 2007
Nadia Kamel, a long-time assistant to Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, paints a sensitive and haunting portrait of her own family, exploring the complex cobweb of modern Egypt. When the director’s nephew hears a sermon that encourages religious war, Kamel decides to tell him the story of his maternal grandmother Maria: a woman part Christian, part Muslim – a feminist, a communist, an Italian and an Arab. A tale of cultural diversity built against the tensions that are created by political extremism.

21 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1) | 18 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Salim Baba CI
Tim Sternberg
15´ India/USA 2007
Salim Muhammad lives in Calcutta with his wife and five children. Since he was ten, he makes a living out of showing old pieces of film to children in his neighbourhood with an old projector he inherited from his father. Salim carries around the projector with his kids, hoping they will continue his work.
Land of the Devil (El Pais del Diablo) CI
Andrés Dí Tella
75´ Argentina 2008
El Pais del Diablo by Andrés di Tella examines an historical episode that happened in the decade of 1870 when Adolfo Ensina, the former Minister of Defense, proposed a megalomaniac project: to dig a gulf with a 600 kilometers extension between the Atlantic Ocean and the Andes in order to sustain the “indigenous threat”.

21 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2) | 23 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Queria Ser CN
Sílvia Firmino
75´ Portugal 2008
A Primary School is under the risk of closing in Portugal’s inland. Ten students, from first to fourth grade, study in the same room. A film that searches for a program that promotes reading and ends up finding the strength, the ambitions and fears of these children.

21 OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 22 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
Frantz Fanon, The Memories From The Asylum I
Abdenour Zahzah and Bachir Ridouh
53´ Algeria 2008
A philosopher, revolutionary and theorist, Frantz Fanon was one of the most influential authors of post-colonial studies. His works about decolonization inspired the independence movements for more than three decades (Jean-Paul Sartre recognized him as the figure “with the voice that the Third World speaks for and finds itself”). His work in psychiatric hospitals also influenced some of Michel Foucault’s theories. This film reconstitutes the life of Fanon and examines his theories of identity and race, as well as his involvement in the struggle against colonialism and racism.

21 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 20 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
Tell Me About Love (Parlez Moi d’Amour) CI
Alexia Bonta
14´ Belgium 2007
The Red Race CI
Chao Gan
70´Germany/China 2008
Following every day of a group of Chinese children from impoverished rural provinces that have the dream of becoming gold medalists, The Red Race shows us the physical and emotional aspects of competition at his highest level. After the media and sports hegemony revealed by the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, we take an insight on the other side of success.

21 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 19 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
A Day in Palestine (Un Jour en Palestine) CI
Mary Ellen Davis, José Garcia-Lozano and Will Eizlini
6´ Canada 2007
A disturbing and fascinating collection of Super-8 images about everyday life of Palestinians in occupied territories which contrasts itself with a series of homemade videos filmed in the sixties.
Merely a Smell CI
Maher Abi Samra
10´ Lebanon/Italy 2007
In Beirut, a city struck by war, a boat proceeds to the evacuation of foreign citizens. Under the ruins of destroyed buildings, the rescue teams remove dead bodies. Between lights and shadows, life and its finitude, the corpses draw frontiers with others, covered by the smell of death.
Six Floors to Hell CI
de Jonathan Ben Efrat
52´ Israel 2007
This film, the development ofshort feature film The Mall, awarded in 2007 at doclisboa, follows a group of clandestine Palestinian workers in Tel-Aviv and their ways of survival while looking for work and a place to sleep. Such is the case of Jalal, one of the many Arabians who live during the day of occasional jobs and sleep at night in an unfinished shopping mall basement, six grounds under the floor, with the dream of getting enough money for his wedding.

21 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 19 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
My Kabul CI
de Whahid Nazir
22´ Afghanistan/France 2007
As a result from a Varan school workshop in Kabul, this film draws a picture of its own town, following Jamal, a taxi driver that talks constantly to his passengers. His memories of war come across with his intense present.
Faces on the Wall CI
Bijan Anquetil and Paul Costes
64´ Iran/France 2007
All three Dastvaré brothers were killed during the Iran-Iraq War. They were 19, 22 and 27 years old. In 1985, the Islamic Republic of Iran had a mural painted in memory of these three martyrs brothers. The history of the painting is the conducting wire that allows us to question a people’s values, described by the Iranian regime as “united by their martyrs blood”.

21 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 17 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
The Champagne Spy I
Nadav Schirmann
90´ Israel/Germany 2007
The Champagne Spy is a thrilling 007 in the shape of a documentary. The unbelievable story of a Mossad spy (national intelligence of Israel) is revealed to us through the images and memories of his son, who at the age of 12 knew the double identity of his father. The style and suspense of this movie are perfectly adapted to a biography full of amazing adventures, double agents, political mysteries and ultra-secret missions. The renowned Israeli spy sent to Cairo to destroy the Egyptian nuclear program reveals himself not only as a divided man between his family and his mission, but also as someone who becomes more and more addicted to his cover identity as an ex-Nazi millionaire and extravagant playboy..

21 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 16 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
I'll be your Mirror DF
Nan Goldin and Edmund Coulthard
50´ France/USA 1996
Nan Golding, a living symbol of the artistic world, evokes her extraordinary life and one of the most exemplary creative legacies in the history of photography. Her work, known for portraying the middle-class American upbringing and for capturing the wild and liberating side of the 1970’s New York underground, finds in this film a new way of looking at her career. Through interviews with her closest friends, video recordings and stills, Goldin recalls the time of a generation.

21 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 17 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Septembers (Septiembres) HB
Carles Bosch
89´ Spain 2007
Every year, in September, the Spanish penitentiary system promotes a music festival that gathers the best singers among the inmates of all country. A competition that is anxiously awaited and where the best detainee singer is elected. What could seem an ordinary musical contest turns into an event of hope and a portrait of the deepest feelings of these convicts. Through the years that separate both contests, Carles Bosch follows some of the detainees, such as Arturo, a gipsy that sings for his wife and children, Rudolf, a expatriate Lithuanian that associates is elected his performance to an Ukrainian love, and Adelberto, a young Argentinean that calls his grandmother every week.

21 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 23 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 24 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
Dream Walking MC
Huang Wenhai
85´China 2005
Summer 2004: artist Li Wa-ke travels to Nanyang in order to help the painter Wang Yongping direct his first film. In this piece of work, Wang not only represents himself but also transforms the story in a reconstruction of his life in the past, while getting help from friends and artists. They talk about art, poetry, religion while using improvisation in the shooting, turning their bodies into places of artistic intervention.

21 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 24 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Ngwenya, O Crocodilo M
Isabel Noronha
90´ Mozambique 2007
One day, Xiluwa met Cecília, daughter of Malangatana, saw some drawings and thought that he was the one who could translate into words that sensorial universe which she knew she belonged to but could not name in words. She kept a promise from Malangatana that he would take her to that magical place where everything is written. Thirty years later, they travel together looking for the keys that will make them understand this universe located between Tradition and Modernity, traveling through sensorial memories and child stories, nocturnal fears and mythical stories, erotic remembrances, stories of struggle and of an Identity’s affirmation. Through each day of that story, the screen reveals a bit more of the oneiric shapes and colours of Malangatana Ngwenya’s Secret Palace: himself.

21 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1) | 18 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Sidney Poitier, an Outsider in Hollywood SE
Catherine Arnaud
70´ France 2008
Catherine Arnaud builds a portrait of one of the greatest Hollywood actors and a living symbol of the American dream, Sidney Poitier, now 80 years of age, and the first black man to win an Oscar by the Academy. It is the history of an actor who offered hope in equal rights to an entire generation, by achieving stardom and quietly struggling against racism prejudice and social injustice. A destiny that for decades walked side by side with the destiny of the Afro-American community in the United States.

21 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 25 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
Gallivant DF
Andrew Kötting
100´ UK 1996
A film where director Andrew Kötting reunites his 85 year old grandmother, Gladys, with his 7 year old daughter, Eden, two human beings on the verge of fragility: one limited by her age, the other suffering from Joubert’s syndrome (with learning and expression difficulties and few hopes of living through adulthood), in a intense journey through the British coastline. A trip that shows not only a world of adventures and episodes, but also a deep glance over the various symptoms of British society in the 1990’s.

21 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 18 OCT. 18.30 - Londres (room 2)
Bab Sebta CN
Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo
110´ Portugal 2008
Bab Sebta s “the door of Ceuta” in Arabic. It is also the name for the passage between Morocco and Ceuta, the place where all of those who come from several parts of Africa converge to try to get into Europe. Bab Sebta, travels through four cities to meet the time and voices of these travelers.

21 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2) | 17 OCT. 11.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
The Long Holiday DF
Johan Van der Keuken
145´ Netherlands 2000
In January 7th 2001, 62 years old Johan Van der Keuken died of prostate cancer. Before, he filmed The Long Holiday, a movie that made the filmmaker travel around the world just after he knew that he would only have a few years of life left. The director travels through places such as Nepal, Brazil, Africa, New York and San Francisco, contacting different societies and cultures, and collecting experiences that helped him face the approach of death. A profound homage to life and a lesson about the last days of one of the greatest Dutch filmmakers ever.

21 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 19 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Shake the Devil Off HB
Peter Entell
99´ Switzerland 2007
Six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Father Ledoux struggles to keep his parish alive at St. Augustine Church, a symbol of music, faith and religion in the city. Many say this is where jazz was born, and the place where slaves, free black people and whites sat side by side for the first time to pray to God, where we can find the Tomb of the Unknown Slave. But the ecclesiastical authorities (the catholic episcopacy) insist in its closure. The community protests and decides to take matters into their own hands, defending the parish priest and the church, in what became one of the most emblematic episodes post-Katrina.

21 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 19 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
When Carnival Comes
(Quando o Carnaval Chegar) (fiction) HB
Cacá Diegues
with: Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia, Nara Leão
90´ Brasil 1972
A fiction movie that became an historical document throughout the years. Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia and Nara Leão are Paulo, Mimi and Rosa – a group of anonymous artists that travel in a bus around Brazil trying to make a living. Written, directed and produced by Carlos Diegues, Quando o Carnaval Chegar is a tribute to the old tradition of the “chanchadas” (Brazilian popular shows known for is naïf and burlesque humour) with Chico Buarque’s original music.