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Programme doclisboa 2008


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October 26 – sunday

26 OUT. 11.00 –São Jorge (room 3) | 17 OUT. 15.00 –São Jorge (room 3)
Be Like Others NF,NI
Tanaz Eshaghian
74´ UK/Iran/Canada/USA 2008
A film that depicts sex change operations over a year in an important clinic in Iran, presenting doctors, patients and State positions on the matter. Be Like Others portrays a generation of young Iranians “diagnosed” as transsexuals in a country that finances sex change, but whose law punishes homosexuals with the death penalty.

26 OUT. 11.30 – São Jorge (room 1)
Profils Paysans 1: L’Approche MD
Raymond Depardon
90´ France 2000
The first chapter of a trilogy dedicated to the world of rural life, Raymond Depardon draws the profile of farmers in France, a class often forgotten and only remembered in cases of climate catastrophes or plagues, in the midst of an aged and abandoned world. A fresco of deep France where men and women evoke with nostalgia a time that no longer exists and wander in a austere universe where the economy of affection and the monotony of days highlight even more the end of an era.

26 OUT. - 14.00 - Londres (room 1) | 20 OUT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
High School RW
Frederick Wiseman
75´ USA 1968
High School was filmed in a large urban high school in Philadelphia. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on ‘facts’ but also transmit social values from one generation to another. Or as one disciplinarian lecturing a minor offender: "We are here in order to make you a man and to guarantee that you may receive orders."

26 OUT. 14.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Awarded Films

26 OUT. 14.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
TOBIS award for feature documentary 4.500 €
bab sebta Bab Sebta CN
Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo
110´ Portugal 2008
Bab Sebta means “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.

26 OUT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
RTP 2 award for best investigation documentary - 5.000 € (includes the acquisition of exhibition rights for RTP)
IPJ University award forthe best feature documentary in the International competition - 1.500 €
the women of brukman The Women of Brukman I
Isaac Isitan
90´ Canada 2007
For a few years, filmmaker Isaac Isitan lived inside Brukman, an Argentinean clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and expropriation after a social revolution made by women workers. An epic film, The Women of Brukman tells the unique story of a cooperative formed against the background of Argentina's devastating economic collapse, working to give these women their jobs back. An example of success and persistence that created a movement of hope in Argentinean society and that became a sociological “case study”.

26 OUT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Johnnie Walker award for short documentary - 3.000 €
the rest of the story The Rest of a Story CI
Antonio Prata
35´ Italy/Switzerland 2007
The film author returns to Zurich, where he had his first experience with heroin and left to cure himself. In a trip through his past, this is his attempt at confronting what remains in his memory.
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Odisseia award for first documentary - 5.000 €
must read after my death Must Read After My Death CI
Morgan Dews
74´ Spain/USA, 2007
The intimate story of a Connecticut couple in the sixties, Charlie and Allys, told by their own words and images, that turned to psychiatry in order to help their marriage and submit themselves to daily sessions of group and individual therapies. Instructed by their doctors to record their discussions, this unconventional couple is a victim of a traumatic system that promotes the use of drugs and shock therapies, showing a family’s struggle to reconstruct themselves and the moral image of an era.

26 OUT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
City of Lisbon award for best feature documentary - 15.000 €
end of the rainbow End of the Rainbow CI
Robert Nugent
83´ France 2007
A big multinational mining company transfers a large prospecting gold unit to a remote region of Guinea Conacry, West Africa. In this desperately poor place, the presence of the mine creates an atmosphere of change and conflict among the local inhabitants. What are the advantages of the so proclaimed progress in an African village? The transformation of the world imposed by money doesn’t mean necessarily happiness or a better way of life.

26 OUT. 14.30 - Londres (room 2) | 19 OUT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Basic Training RW
Frederick Wiseman
89´ USA 1971
Basic Training follows a company of draftees and enlisted men through the nine weeks of their basic training cycle. The varieties of training techniques used by the army in converting civilians to soldiers are illustrated in scenes of drills, in the use of M-16’s and bayonets, a gas chamber, mines, night crawls, an infiltration course and many forms of ideological training.

26 OUT. 15.00 – São Jorge (room 3) | 17 OUT. 17.00 –São Jorge (room 3)
No more hide & seek (Nous N’Irons Plus au Bois) NF, NI
Josée Dayan
74´ France 2007
Josée Dayan invites us to discover several transsexual portraits (masculine and feminine) in an affirmative film that reunites extraordinary accounts. Few times has the legislative psychiatric institution carried an almost police function in the access to transsexualism while being so clearly contested. More than the decades of oppression lived by the transsexual and transgender community, it’s the extraordinary will in living their identity in full liberty that is here evoked.

26 OUT. 15.30 - Londres (room 1) | 20 OUT. 11.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Welfare RW
Frederick Wiseman
167´ USA 1975
In Welfare, Wiseman presents us the daily life of a large American welfare centre. The nature and complexity of the welfare system depicted in the film illustrates the staggering diversity of problems that make up welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. Welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and their lives.

26 OUT. 15.30 – São Jorge (room 1)
Profils Paysans 2 : Le Quotidien MD
de Raymond Depardon
85´ França 2005
Nas regiões da Lozère, Ardèche e Haute-Loire, Raymond Depardon retoma alguns anos mais tarde o olhar sobre a vida rural e as famílias que o compõem, mostrando como as diferentes gerações resolvem ocupar o campo e os jovens tratam de instalar-se nas fazendas. Um filme que aborda os problemas de transmissão do património e a agitação dessa herança, retrato que resulta numa visão melancólica e sensível dos sacrifícios dos camponeses ao longo dos anos.

26 OUT. 16.15 - Londres (room 2) | 21 OUT. 11.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
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.

26 OUT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Awarded Films

26 OUT. 17.00 – São Jorge (room 3) | 18 OUT. 15.00 – São Jorge (room 3)
My Mums Used to Be Men NF,NI
Julie Beanland
57´ UK 2005
Her father was once called Brian but now he’s had a sex change operation and became Sarah. Now he’s a mother. Brian’s partner, truck driver Lee, has also had a sex change and he’s now Louise’s other ‘mum’ Kate. Louise’s mother, Hayley, has remarried and is no longer part of her life. Confused? Louise isn’t. Since the news of this unusual family broke, the tabloids have dubbed Louise, Sarah and Kate as ‘Britain’s Weirdest Family’. Now Louise is being teased at school. But instead of hiding, she’s determined to put the record straight and prove that, if others leave them alone, they can be happy.

26 OUT. 17.30 – São Jorge (room 1)
Profils Paysans 3: La Vie Moderne MD
Raymond Depardon
88´ France 2008
A testimony of the farmers and peasants living in the French province, their behaviour and ways of life in their region. Filmed in one year, Depardon travels through places and farms, meeting families and interviewing different characters that are part of a world on the verge of collapse, victim of the generation gap. While showing a natural interest and empathy for the countryside, La Vie Moderne exposes the roots and identity of the rural man, closing a trilogy dedicated to French rural life.

26 OUT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Awarded Films

26 OUT. 19.00 –São Jorge (room 3) | 18 OUT. 17.00 –São Jorge (room 3)
Kenia and Her Family NF, NI
Llorenç Soler
55´Spain 2005
The film depicts the experience of a female couple in Catalonia, Julia and Aida, who decided to have a baby. After four artificial insemination failures, the couple decides to look for a biological father. Julia gets pregnant on the first attempt. Over a year, we follow the organization of this family, which includes the two mothers and their respective families, but also the biologic father, his husband and other friends.

26 OUT. 19.30 – São Jorge (room 1)
1974: Une Partie de Campagne MD
de Raymond Depardon
90´ França 1974
Giscard d’Estaing took 28 years to allow the distribution of this film made by Raymond Depardon, an accurate record of the “Gaullist” campaign for the 1974 Presidential election (it was immediately suppressed after the politician narrowly victory, who deemed it “irreverent”). A documentary that follows the steps of future French President while stepping out of cars and planes, discussing tactics en route to another interview or another press conference. Giscard d’Estaing as the perfect personification of the image of power and the solitude of the political process.

26 OUT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 19 OUT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Missile RW
Frederick Wiseman
115´ USA 1987
A movie that documents every step of the training of men and women who control the U.S. nuclear arsenal only with their fingers. Missile follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained for the Launch Control Centers of Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The film includes the discussion of moral and military issues of nuclear war; the arming, targeting and launching of the missile; codes; communications; protection against terrorist attacks; emergency procedures; staff meetings and tutorial sessions.

26 OUT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Awarded Films

26 OUT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 19 OUT. 11.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Aspen RW
Frederick Wiseman
146´ USA 1991
A movie where Wiseman drives straight into Aspen’s dichotomous heart and focus himself on the soul of one of the main tourist attractions in the United States. Aspen is a film about a town that was famous in the 19th century for silver mining and is now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. A documentary that portrays the contemporary concept of leisure.

26 OUT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 18 OUT. 19.00 –São Jorge (room 3)
Louise, Her Father, Her Mothers,
Her Brother and Her Sisters NF, NI
Stéphane Mercúrio and Catherine Sinet
56´ France 2004
In a noisy and entertaining family dinner, an unusual family is sitting around the table, made of Louise’s relatives: her father, her two mothers, her stepmother, her brother and sisters. Françoise and Gérard have been in love for 44 years. They have three children. Sybille and Sylviane have been in love for 23 years. They wanted to have a child so they asked their friend Françoise to “lend” them Gérard, her husband. And she agreed.

26 OUT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 18 OUT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 20 OUT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Red Paradise MC
Bai Budan
7´ China 2007
In a valley between seven great mountains, there’s a small village, Laoyaogou, whose hard working inhabitants explore coal mines under Communist Party supervision. Despite the difficulties the village had to face during the last years, reality shows several “miracles”. In 2006, the village won the title for “Civilized and Harmonious Village of Shanxi’s Province”, for which the locals expressed grateful thanks to all of those who helped them, as well as to the Communist Party.
Little Feet MC
Bai Budan
114´ China 2005
In Xiayao Village in the Shanxi Province, we meet Bai Danu, foot-bound since she was seven years old, who married Liu Buhan more than forty years ago. The eighty year old couple still has to get up early to work in the fields and come back home late in the evening. Far from the luster of modern China, Little Feet shows us the reality of the broken rural areas with scenes where various other old ladies pour out their feelings on their “little feet”.

26 OUT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Primary MD
Robert Drew
60´ USA 1960
An absolute and definitive portrait of the Kennedy couple, Primary brought two forms of innovation in terms of technique and subject to cinema. In addiction to the fact that it was the first film to sync sound and camera’s image (which allowed it to move freely on the ground), director Robert Drew tried also to accomplish here one of his longing projects: to film “a new kind of reporting, a new form of history” (a principle he brought from his experience as a reporter). For his first subject, he chose a young and promising senator who was running at the time for the Democratic presidential nomination in Wisconsin: John F. Kennedy. The result turned out to be a unique cinematic experience in the history of film and the beginning of what was to be called “cinema verité”.

26 OUT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1) | 17 OUT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Titicut Follies RW
Frederick Wiseman
89´ USA 1967
Banned before 1992 because of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rule that described it as an invasion of inmate privacy and a violation to patient’s dignity, Titicut Follies is Frederick Wiseman’s first documentary and a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed in the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. A film that exposes the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers and psychiatrists, and which forces us to contemplate the limits of human indifference.

26 OUT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 22 OUT. 17.00 – São Jorge (room 3)
The Double Life of Dona Ermelinda
(A Dupla Vida de Dona Ermelinda) NF, NI
Aldo Lee
68´ France/United Kingdom/Portugal 1995
The Double Life of Dona Ermelinda investigates the mysterious life of filmmaker Aldo Lee’s grandmother. At the age of 72, after the independence of Mozambique, Dona Ermelinda decided to deny her colonial past and fall in love with a black man. A radical change in her life as well as for the history of her country, making this film a peculiar drama of family investigation.

26 OUT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
The War Room MD
Chris Hegedus & D. A. Pennebaker
96´ USA 1993
A behind-the-scenes journey of Bill Clinton’s campaign for the 1992 Presidential election and a peculiar approach to the work of campaign managers James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. A couple of veterans, formed by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, focus on the effort of these two strategists, especially the way they deal with the media or campaign decisions they decide to take, unraveling a world usually hidden from the eyes of common people. Bill Clinton himself is almost never seen in this exclusive and privileged portrait of the corridors of politics and the games of power.