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Programme doclisboa 2008


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October 24 – friday

24 OCT. 10.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Lisbon Docs – Public Pitching Session
(10h00/14h30)

24 OCT. 14.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 18 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 25 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
Crime and Punishment (Zui Yu Fa) MC
Zhao Liang De
123´ China 2007
Filmed in the border regions between North Korea and China, Crime and Punishment follows the daily life of young Chinese guards based at a police station. In this place, we meet several characters, from petty thieves to people who need social and economic assistance. We also observe the competition for promotion that is developed between the young recruits as the end of the year approaches and the officers are due to retire.

24 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1) | 20 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Years When I was a Child Outside DF
John Torres
105´ Philippines 2008
A story that begins with the relationship between a father and a son: Rodolfo and John Torres. The first one, known as a successful self-help author and editor in the Philippines, watches his editorial empire decline and collapse. The event turns out to be a tragedy to his family who also get to know, not much later, that the father had always hidden another family. At this time, John decides to leave home and start a voyage of discovery that transforms itself into a meditation journey and a geographic chronicle.

24 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 21 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 23 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
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.

24 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 20 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 23 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
A Day to Remember MC
Liu Wei
13´ China 2005
June 4th, 2005: Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei heads to the University of Beijing and Tiananmen Square with a camera and one simple question: “do you know what day is today?” As he asks students and young people passing by, he faces evasive answers and the refusal to remember the events of that date. Most say they know nothing about it and quickly go on their way, or look blankly into the camera. A Day to Remember is a movie that reflects about the memory of June 4th and how it has been replaced by silence, showing that the revolt of that time still remains a taboo subject in China.
Year by Year MC
de Liu Wei
48´ China 2005
Year by Year follows the “petitioners” from the village of Dongzhuang, Beijing, during the Chinese New Year in 2004. These petitioners try to make themselves heard and to point errors in the State’s functioning structure (Party and Government), while dedicating their lives to a cause. But in China, critical voices, even when complying with official rules, still face difficulties in obtaining practical results.

24 OCT. 16.45 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 22 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2)
Dear Mara, Letters from a Trip Through Patagonia
(Querida Mara, Cartas de Un Viaje por Patagonia) CI
Carlos Echeverría
90´ Argentina 2007
A group of sheep shearers from a village on the Argentine pampas travel across Patagonia on a bus every year, moving from one farm to another. A journey narrated by an anonymous voice that reads his letters written to his beloved wife Mara, complemented with short monologues in which the shearers tell theirs stories and talk about their experience.

24 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1) | 20 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Impermanent CI
Mario Rizzi
15´ Italy 2007
Ali Akilah is 96 years old and lives in Aman (Jordan), but he was born in Lifta, a Palestinian village whose area corresponds to West Jerusalem today. After studying medicine in Beirut (Lebanon), he worked as a doctor in Haifa until 1948. While he remembers certain moments of his life, he shows a feeling of “permanent impermanence”.
To See if I’m Smiling CI
Tamar Yaron
59´ Israel 2007
A young Israeli woman director who served in the Israeli Army in occupied territories collects the terrible statements of six women who, in obedience to military logics, like her, committed shameful actions: the humiliation of civilians, the rape and killing of innocent people, pictures taken at the side of murdered victims. The innocence and emotion which they speak with about that period contrasts with the dramatic content of their confessions: “My hands are full of blood”.

24 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2) | 18 OCT. 23.15 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
National 206 (Nacional 206) CN
Catarina Alves Costa
53’ Portugal 2008
A film about a textile factory on national highway 206, northern Portugal, in the Ave River Valley. While looking for personal school experiences, director Catarina Alves Costa came across the everyday life and routine of a factory that never shuts down, day or night, and of those who work there. Inside its corridors and enormous machines, we follow the workers’ daily life as they talk about different professional and scholar experiences.
The Flight of the Humbi-Humbi
(O Voo do Humbi-Humbi) CN
Carlos Eduardo Viana
60´ Portugal 2008
NGO’s, churches, community leaders, teachers, students and communities agents all participate in the process of social, cultural and economic development of a small rural area in Angola: the commune of Lombe. The school plays a fundamental part.

24 OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 20 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2)
Les Ouvrières de la Sogantal SE
de Nadejda Tilhou
80´ França 2008
A luta das operárias da Sogantal filmada por uma equipa de televisão em pleno clima revolucionário pós-25 de Abril. Depois de terem sido abandonadas pelo patrão, o caso desta fábrica ficou inscrito como um dos episódios mais simbólicos da tomada do poder pelo povo e da “explosão social” que Portugal vivia em 1974. Numa luta liderada exclusivamente por mulheres, este é o exemplo paradigmático das convulsões vividas na época e um quadro de ascensão dos vários actores anónimos da sociedade portuguesa. Trinta anos depois, o que resta da luta das mulheres da Sogantal?

24 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 19 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2)
Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline I
Masha Novikova
78´ Netherlands 2008
The director of Three Comrades (the winner of Investigations at doclisboa 2007) knew well Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian reporter murdered in October 7th, 2006. The filmmaker and the reporter dedicated years of theirs lives to the Chechnya conflict, unraveling the atrocities that the Kremlin authorities don’t want to recognize. With exclusive images and interviews, this portrait of Politkovskaya reconstitutes the last years of her career and her lonely struggle for the truth. Unfortunately this movie couldn’t be screened in Russia

24 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 17 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
My Friend Mike at Work
(O Meu Amigo Mike ao Trabalho) R&E
Fernando Lopes
49´ Portugal 2008
Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.

24 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 16 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
Le Temps des Amoureuses SE
de Henri-François Imbert
83´França 2008
A film that started with a causal encounter between a man who performed in a movie thirty years ago and a filmmaker who unconditionally loves it. We’re talking about Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974), a film by Jean Eustache; and a meeting in Narbonne, the same place where the film was made and where these two men get to know each other. The youngest one, French director Henri-François Imbert, a profound admirer of Eustache’s movie, begins to film a documentary about the shooting of Mes Petites Amoureuses. Hilaire, who participated in this film, remembers those days, the crew atmosphere and the get-together on the set.

24 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 23 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
Standing Start SE
Finlay Pretsell & Adrian McDowall
13´ United Kingdom 2007
Just what does it take to be the fastest starter in the world? Standing Start gives a unique insight into Olympic cyclist Craig MacLean's life, his unflinching focus and preparation to battle it out on the world stage. A modern time “gladiator” that turns his activity into a battlefield.
The English Surgeon SE
Geoffrey Smith
94’ United Kingdom 2007
One of the most awarded documentaries in 2008. The story of British brain surgeon Henry Marsh, who has been traveling over the past 16 years between London and Ukraine to perform brain surgeries on several patients, while passing on the latest medical knowledge to his friend Dr. Igor Kurilets. The English Surgeon portrays Marsh’s extraordinary surgical skills along with his ability to teach. His expertise can save and improve hundreds of lives in a world where medical conditions are absolutely appalling.

24 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 25 OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Un Voyage au Portugal DF
Pierre Primetens
13´ France 2001
Pierre’s mother died when he was five years old. His father never spoke to him about her. At 26 years old, he discovers his mother’s Portuguese family...
Memories of a Tropical Jew
(Mémoires d’un Juif Tropical) DF
Joseph Morder
80´ France 1988
A mixed exercise of self-reflection and a personal chronicle where director Joseph Morder recalls his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. In a movie with no scenes from Ecuador, the heat of August in Paris brings memories to the filmmaker, in a time where he’s involved in a love affair. Morder also builds a small piece of “fictions” with little details while still making an intimate journal of his quotidian.

24 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 21 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
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.

24 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 17 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 21 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
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.

24 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 23 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
(Simonal: Niguém Sabe o Duro que Dei) HB
Claúdio Manoel, Calvito Leal & Michael Langer
86´ Brazil 2008
Wilson Simonal was one of the most famous Brazilian artists in the 1960’s. In those days, he was the only black musician seen as a star attraction: in sold-out shows, he sang with Sarah Vaughan and cast away singer Roberto Carlos. But his popularity decreased astonishingly in 1971, after being accused of working for the military dictatorship in Brazil. The rise and fall of an idol.

24 OCT. 22.30 – Londres (room1) | 17 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 20 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 1)
American Swing SE
Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman
81´ USA 2008
The chronicle of the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, an ordinary man who turned the basement of the prestigious Ansonia building on the Upper West Side, in New York, into an effervescent sex club in 1977: Plato’s Retreat. The city's nightlife hit unprecedented heights and several couples came to the club to dance and swing. It was the start of a revolution and the sexual epicenter of a time, remembered here by former patrons, employees and never-before-seen archival images.

24 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 23 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2)
The World According to Monsanto
(Le Monde Selon Monsanto) I
Marie-Monique Robin
108´ France/Canada/Germany 2008
Implanted in over forty countries around the globe, Monsanto became the world leader of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms, also known as Transgenic) and one of the most controversial enterprises in history. Calling on unpublished documents and first-handed accounts by some of the victims, politicians and scientists, this documentary reconstitutes the rise of an economic empire. The author reveals the obscure strategies of multinationals to change the laws in the United Sates – thus allowing to hide the truth about transgenic effects on human beings.

24 OCT. 23.15 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 19 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2)
Tokyo Porto 9 hours (Tóquio Porto 9 horas) CN
João Nuno Brochado
8´ Portugal 2008
A new day rises in Tokyo. In Porto, it will rise only after another 9 hours. The differences and similarities between two places not only geographically distant.
0=6 Homeoestética CN
Bruno de Almeida
60´ Portugal 2008
A documentary about Homeostética, an art movement born in Lisbon in the early 80’s by Fernando Brito, Ivo, Pedro Portugal, Pedro Proença, Manuel João Vieira and Xana. Using humour in order to distance themselves from the art world, Homeostética cultivated an outsider attitude with strong dada influences, producing an intense body of work that included exhibitions, texts, manifestos, films, rock concerts and other collective performances.

24 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2) | 17 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Blind Loves R&E
Juraj Lehotský
77´ Slovakia 2008
Blind Loves is a genuine attempt to depict the different forms of love between blind people. Four individuals: Peter, Miro, Elena and Zuzana, expose us the beauty of their values and the vision they have of love and their need for it. When expressing a world of their own, they tend to reveal a very peculiar set of dreams, perceptions and ideas that are part of their quotidian and give us their image of life. A sensitive and emotionally powerful reflection of the most intimate feelings and emotions of blind people.

24 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 18 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Black Tears (Lágrimas Negras) HB
Sónia Herman Dolz
75´ Netherlands/Cuba 1997
Unfairly shadowed by the media success of Buena Vista Social Club, which premiered in the same year, Black Tears is still today the best documentary about Cuba and the island’s spirit. The main characters are five musicians of La Vieja Trova Santiaguera (The Old Troubadours) who at the end of their performances usually need to be assisted off the stage. The reason for this has nothing to do with their tiredness or the physical engage they put during the concert, but because the stairs are too big of a risk for their fragile legs (already with 80 years of age). The touching quotidian of these musicians is shown through their international tours.

24 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 25 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Disobedience (Desobediência) M
Licínio Azevedo
92´ Mozambique/Portugal 2002
Rosa, a Mozambican peasant woman, is accused of causing her husbands’ suicide and being possessed by a “husband-spirit” that made her disobey to her true husband. In the funeral, a letter is found and read in front of everyone: the suicidal determines that the five children he had with Rosa must be delivered to his twin brother and not allowed to live with the woman who ruined his life. To prove her innocence, she recovers her children and the few possessions the couple had, submitting herself to two trials: first a healer, then a court of justice. She’s found innocent in both, yet in order to keep a family’s secret hidden, she must be found guilty. The dead relatives then take revenge on her in an excruciating way.