Doclisboa dedicates its 2018 auteur retrospective to Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina. His accurate and humorous vision of his country, his strong passion for cinema and his commitment to the preservation of the past make him one of the most important figures in Latin America’s recent film history. Luis Ospina is born in Cali, Colombia. He …
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15 Doclisboa films at Cinemax Braga
Cinemax Cinemas in Braga (northern Portugal) will host a Doclisboa extention, between the 23rd and the 25th of November, presented by our delightful programmer Joana Sousa. Fifteen films from the 15th edition of the festival, including two DocSchools sessions, promoted by our very own Education Project. You can almost say it’s a mini festival. 23 November …
6.doc – Doclisboa at Cinema Ideal
Between February and July, Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinema Ideal, presents 6.doc, screening seven films premiered at Doclisboa 2019. Each film will be screened for one week, with the sessions followed by conversations with guests including directors Pedro Filipe Marques, Eloy Enciso, Billy Woodberry, Camilo de Sousa, Isabel Noronha and Eric Baudelaire, and other speakers to be announced. Each film …
6.doc – Doclisboa at Cinema Ideal
Between February and July, Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinema Ideal, presents 6.doc, screening five films premiered at Doclisboa 2018 and one film premiered at Porto/Post/Doc 2018.The films will be shown for a week, with each screening by conversations with guests who be announced. On February 21st, at 21h30, at Cinema IDEAL, Lisbon, the first screening …
6.doc – Greetings From Free Forests
6.doc ends one more edition! Greetings From Free Forests by Ian Soroka is the last film to be presented at Cinema Ideal and the winner of City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film. Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia, the film encounters stories that emerge from the land itself, measuring the gap …
6.doc presents Earth
Between February and July, Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinema Ideal, presents 6.doc, screening five films premiered at Doclisboa 2018 and one film premiered at Porto/Post/Doc 2018. The films will be shown for a week, with each screening by conversations with guests who be announced. 20 – 26 June | 19h30 Earth Hiroatsu Suzuki, Rossana Torres, Portugal, 2018, 60′ Doclisboa 2018 …
6.doc presents The Kamagasaki Cauldron War by Leo Sato
Between February and July, Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinema Ideal, presents 6.doc, screening five films premiered at Doclisboa 2018 and one film premiered at Porto/Post/Doc 2018. The films will be shown for a week, with each screening by conversations with guests who be announced. PROGRAM 6.doc: 28 March – 3 April | 21h15 The Kamagasaki Cauldron War Leo Sato, …
7.doc – Doclisboa @ Cinema Ideal
From June 25th on, Doclisboa returns to Cinema Ideal to show some of the best films from last year’s edition of the festival. 7.doc recovers part of the line-up originally thought for 6.doc. So, along with the movies already announced – ‘A Story from Africa‘, ‘Sonhámos um País‘, ‘Un Film Dramatique‘, ‘143 Rue du Désert‘ …
Amerindian Film Screening – Paths of Indigenous Cinema in Brazil
Brazil’s indigenous cinematic production has contributed decisively to the emergence of new tools for indigenous knowledge and their intervention in the world. The idea for holding this film screening in Portugal arose from the interest of a group of researchers, cultural programmers and activists in developing a deeper knowledge of the contribution made to contemporary …
Applications Arché Porto/Post/Doc
Submissions are now open for Arché in Porto/Post/Doc‘s 3rd edition, which will take place between November 23rd and December 1. The deadline for these submissions is until October 14. Doclisboa and Porto/Post/Doc collaborate once again, to promote the decentralization of Aché to new contexts and to bring to Porto this space of deep reflection of …
Arché
Arché is Apordoc‘s creative development space aiming at directors, producers, film critics and other professionals. Taking place in the scope of Doclisboa International Film Festival and with the support of Ibermedia Programme, it intends to provide tools to new film projects, as well as moments of reflection and training thus fostering and assuring projects’ identity and quality. …
Arché and MRG//Work create “RAW: Residencies, Arché, Work”
In 2019, Arché, creative development lab of Doclisboa and MRG//Work, development and training space of Spanish Spanish film festival Márgenes, with support of the Ibermedia Programme, present a new project: RAW: Residencies, Arché, Work, a creative development and training programme taking place in Lisbon and Madrid. RAW aims at continuing and strengthening the partnership between …
Arché in Porto/Post/Doc | 3rd edition | Open Call
Submissions are now open for Arché in Porto/Post/Doc‘s 3rd edition, which will take place between November 23rd and December 1. The deadline for these submissions is until October 14. Doclisboa and Porto/Post/Doc collaborate once again, to promote the decentralization of Aché to new contexts and to bring to Porto this space of deep reflection of …
Award Winners 2018
International Competition Jury: Agnès Godard, Leo Goldsmith, Mariana Gaivão, Mike Hoolboom, Yael Bartana City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film GREETINGS FROM FREE FORESTS, Ian Soroka Portuguese Authors Society International Competition Jury Award THE GUEST, Sebastian Weber Portuguese Competition Jury: Madeleine Molyneaux, Rui Catalão, Virginia Garcia del Pino Award for best Portuguese competition film TERRA, …
Award Winners at Cinema Ideal
This year, there are no excuses to miss the award-winning films of Doclisboa’18. Showing at Cinema Ideal the 29, 30 and 31 October, at 6:00pm and 10.15pm. 29 OCT 6:00pm INATEL + REVELATION AWARDS Vacas e Rainhas, Laura Marques Cidade Marconi, Ricardo Moreira 29 OCT 10:15pm SCHOOL AWARD BY ETIC Terra Franca, Leonor Teles 30 OCT …
Become a Partner
The world will once again fit in Lisbon between the 22nd of October and the 1st of November 2020. Over the years, a number of brands have benefited from being associated with Doclisboa’s prestigious image. Doclisboa’s modern, daring, versatile and cosmopolitan image is founded upon its reputation as a bold meeting point of artistic production, …
Call for entries Doclisboa 2020
Call for entries Doclisboa’20 15.01 – 31.05 Doclisboa – International Film Festival has opened the call for films for its 18th edition, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 22nd October to 1st November 2020. Every year, Doclisboa shows around 250 films, hosts around 100 debates, round tables, parallel screenings and meetings and …
Call for entries to the 2020 Healthy Workplaces Film Award – Doclisboa 2020
This year EU-OSHA presents the Healthy Workplaces Film Award together with the Doclisboa film festival. Entries for submission are now open. The Award honours the best documentary on a work-related topic with a €5,000 prize and subtitling in a selection of European languages. Find out more about the criteria to apply for the award Check …
COVID-19: A message from Doclisboa
It is with great concern that we see the COVID-19 pandemic affecting everyone, causing irreparable damage to the lives of so many. In this context, the film industry is no exception and is being deeply affected. This crisis shows how precarious the working conditions are for those who make, produce and exhibit cinema. We stand …
Doc Alliance
Doc Alliance is an international network that gathers seven European documentary film festivals and to which Doclisboa has joined in 2013. The network annually works to promote and create interest and support to documentary film, especially independent and authoral films. To pursue these aims, Doc Alliance work on several projects, acting both on the promotion …
Doc Alliance Award nominees announced
Doc Alliance selection films and juries for the 2019 Doc Alliance Award were announced. In 2019, Doclisboa nominates Odyssey, by Sabine Groenewegen. In the film, undefined intelligences analyse an assemblage of signals they produce about an infected planet when a resistant matter comes and disturbs the flux of stories, time and space they are trying …
Docliboa’19 Announces its Retrospectives
DOCLISBOA’19 ANNOUNCES ITS RETROSPECTIVES WITH AN OUTDOOR SCREENING Doclisboa – International Film Festival will hold an outdoor screening on Cinemateca Portuguesa‘s rooftop terrace on Friday July 26 at 10.30 p.m., as an announcement and preview of the festival’s two major retrospectives this October. Jocelyne Saab’s LETTRE DE BEYROUTH will be screened as a prelude to one of the largest ever retrospectives of the filmmaker’s work. Lew …
Doclisboa – About the 18th edition of the festival
We are living through complex and uncertain times that pose a series of challenges to those who make, who show and who watch cinema. We have been working so that the 18th edition of Doclisboa responds to these challenges with new ways of being together and taking care of each other. Doclisboa is a place …
Doclisboa – Discovering Georgian Cinema: 100 Years in Retrospective
Pirosmani (1969), by Georgiy Shengelaya In its 18th edition, Doclisboa will present a retrospective dedicated to Georgian cinema, mapping its production from the 1920s to the present. Doclisboa will be presented in six modules this year, over six months, and unveils this retrospective as the centre of the programme of the festival’s first module, which …
Doclisboa @ Há Filmes na Baixa
After Cinema Ideal, in Lisbon, a selection of some of the best films from last year’s edition of Doclisboa travel now to Porto, for a programme in collaboration with Porto/Post/Doc, included in Há Filmes na Baixa. The films will be exhibited in Passos Manuel, always at 7pm. thursday, july 9th Un film dramatique Eric …
Doclisboa 18th Edition
In October, Doclisboa returns for the 18th edition. This is a special edition that, as a response to these strange and exceptional times we are living, reinvents itself by designing a new format. This year, the festival will not be organized by sections and competitions. Instead, it will be composed of six distinct modules of …
DOCLISBOA 2019 Retrospectives – Program
From 17 to 27 October, another edition of Doclisboa – International Film Festival arrives, and this month we present the retrospectives that will be part of the festival, curated by Agnès Wildenstein and Davide Oberto: Retrospective The Rise And Fall of the Wall – The Cinema of East Germany This year, we are commemorating …
Doclisboa at Bairro em Festa
Doclisboa returns to LARGO Residências for a screening at Bairro em Festa, a festival that promotes cultural diversity, interculturalism and social inclusion in the neighborhoods of Intendente, Anjos, Arroios and Pena. The Doc no Bairro session takes place at Mercado das Culturas, at Mercado do Forno do Tijolo, on August 19th, at 9 p.m., and …
Doclisboa at Há Filmes na Baixa!
During January, Doclisboa in partnership with Porto/Post/Doc, presents six films premiered in both festivals. The sessions happen in the context of the cycle Há Filmes na Baixa!, at Cinema Passos Manuel, in Porto. The programme includes the winners of Doclisboa’18: Greetings from Free Forests, by Ian Soroka, winner of the International Competition (screened on the January 30 at …
Doclisboa at Museu do Oriente
Museu do Oriente Program 2, 9, 16, 23 February 2020 | Auditorium | 5 pm | Free Entrance In February, Doclisboa returns to Museu do Oriente with the program “Other Maps – Exiles and Displacements”. The films reflect on displacement and exile as permanent conditions, effecting humanity across different historic moments. Causes differ, but these …
Doclisboa directors Cíntia Gil and Davide Oberto leaving festival in October
The Board of Apordoc – Portuguese Documentary Association announces that Doclisboa directors Cíntia Gil and Davide Oberto are leaving the Festival in October, following its 17th edition. Cíntia Gil will leave the direction of Doclisboa International Film Festival after this year’s edition (17 to 27 October 2019) and will start as the new director of Sheffield …
Doclisboa goes to Macau
The extension of Doclisboa returns to Macau for the sixth year in a row, beginng and ending with the Portuguese poet Camilo Pessanha. Between the 5th and 10th of November, 14 films will be shown, including the winners of Sound & Image Challenge 聲音與影像大比拼 and EU Short-film Challenge 2017. Pé San Ié (pictured), a visual essay …
Doclisboa receives the EFFE Label 2019-2020
Doclisboa has again received the EFFE – Europe for Festivals label, Festivals for Europe which, through an international jury review, attests to its dedication to three criteria: artistic commitment, community involvement and global perspective of the festival. The EFFE Label is Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals showing their engagement in the field of …
Doclisboa will not accept external pressures
Over the past two days, Doclisboa has received pressures from two Embassies to remove films from its programme, or to review texts in its materials. In particular, a film of the International Competition and texts related to the focus “Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World”. No one in the Apordoc team has …
Doclisboa’18 program in Macao
Doclisboa will, once again, present a small program with a selection of its films in Macao, in collaboration with IPOR. This small program will feature a selection of films from the 2018 edition of the festival, as well as some titles suggested by the institution. The screenings will take place from 7th to 11th of …
Doclisboa’18: scoring with world premier
The whole world will fit in Lisbon once again between 18 and 28 October, for the 16th edition of Doclisboa International Film Festival. The grand opening at Culturgest will host , with the shadow of the Nazi past hanging over Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the United Nations, through Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz, …
Doclisboa’s team in solidarity with Brazilian Cinema
Doclisboa’s team is observing, appalled and revolted, the attacks made by the Brazilian government to the filmmakers in that country, to our colleagues and to the Brazilian independent cinema as a whole. After cases of censorship, after the announcement of a military cinema programme at the Cinemateca and the inexplicable budget cuts to Ancine, the …
Docs4kids returns with “Video in the Villages”
Our Education Project returns with film director Cláudia Alves at the helm of another Docs4Kidsworkshop. Aimed at 12 to 15 year olds, it’s free of charge, starts at 4:00p.m. and will last for three hours, ahead of the festival of the upcoming Saturday, 22 September, in the Galveias Palace Library. The program begins with the screening of two short …
Endless Night will open Doclisboa and Technoboss will close the festival
From Galizia to the roads of Portugal: the 17th edition of Doclisboa, that will be held between October 17-27, will open with Eloy Enciso’s Endless Night and will close with the preview of Technoboss, directed by João Nicolau (which premieres in national theatres on November 7). After being a part of Doclisboa’s …
Extensions: Doclisboa travels to Vila Real
Three days of cinema, between the 20th and the 22nd November, when an extension by Doclisboa gets to the auditorium at Vila Real Theatre, in an effort by this organisation with UTAD – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. To show some of the films from the festival’s 15th edition: 20 November, 6:30pm Pesar Madalena …
Family Images at Arco de Valdevez
The partnership between Apordoc and Arcos de Valdevez City Council, whereDoc’s Kingdom is annually held, goes far back. And finds new strength in the cycle “Family Images”, a whole month of films, between the 30th of November and December. At Cineclube de Arcos de Valdevez, a selection of short films from the Greens Years section …
FAQ’s
General Info When will the next festival take place? The 18th edition of Doclisboa – International Film Festival will take place from 22nd October to 1st November 2020. When will the full programme for the 2020 edition be announced? The full programme will be announced in September 2020 on this website. Keep checking our news …
Fashion and Other Arts: Heart Beat’18 Unveiled
The Heart Beat section of Doclisboa’18 features films dedicated to the arts, through a selection bursting with great characters and stories from all over the world. This includes two great ladies of the punk movement: Joan Jett, star of Kevin Kerslake’s Bad Reputation, and iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, whom director Lorna Tucker presents in …
Filmmaking Seminar
In this edition of Doclisboa, the Filmmaking Seminar, designed in collaboration with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art will explore radical filmmaking practices and the expanding languages of documentary cinema. Four open conversations, led by a scholar or critical writer, will engage the work of artists presented at Doclisboa’20. The participants will be organised in groups …
Four projects at Porto/Post/Doc’s Arché
We are dlighted to announce the four projects that have been chosen to participate in the Development Workshop by our Arché lab, that will take place within the Porto/Post/Doc film festival, between the 27th of November and the 1st of December: Aiguallum, David Tena Reiff (Spain) Às Vezes não sou eu Quem Fala Por Mim, Miguel Clara Vasconcelos …
Frederick Wiseman and Rithy Pann Join “From the Earth to the Moon”
We are delighted to announce two further confirmations to festival section ”From the Earth to the Moon”: Frederick Wiseman and Rithy Panh. The American director takes us to the landscapes of “Monrovia, Indiana”, revealing the daily routine of a countryside community of 1400 inhabitants, founded in 1834. Through observing the functioning of the community’s organisations …
From the Earth to the Moon with Werner Herzog, Lech Kowalski and many others
From the Earth to the Moon: a section that leads us to a universe of multiple cinematic times, and shows us the most diverse individual and social issues in contemporaneity. This year, this section includes a greatly diverse film repertoire, with more than 20 films from all over the world, with 2 international premieres, as …
Full Programme Announced | Doclisboa’19
A glimpse across vast territories, through the most varied artistic voices, in the most diverse times of History and Cinema: this is the line that defines the programme of this year’s edition of Doclisboa. This morning, at Culturgest, the press conference of Doclisboa’19 took place, in which the full programme of the 17th edition of the festival …
Fundação Oriente Program
Fundação Oriente Program In February, Doclisboa returns to Fundação Oriente. For the Museu do Oriente, Doclisboa prepared a film program working directly in relation to the major geopolitical changes of modernity – of emigration to new El Dorados, to the construction of a symbolic country through a film industry, from cities of belonging none have ever seen, …
Georgia will be the Invited Country of the next edition of Nebulae
The guest country for 2020 was announced during the Nebulae’s presentation in DocSalon, a programme of the EFM – European Film Market, in the context of the Berlinale Festival. Each edition of Nebulae, the Industry Project of Doclisboa, hosts a country and its film professionals. This year, with the support of the Georgian National Film …
Goodbye to Luis Ospina
It is with deep sadness that Doclisboa receives the news of the death of colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina. We note his generosity and his care in preserving memory, his deep freedom and his sophisticated sense of humor, which were reflected in his films. He liked when we called him a punk filmmaker. Because he was …
Heart Beat | Films, Art & Rock’n’Roll w/ The Projectionist, Bill Wyman, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lil Peep and others
Music, dance, cinema, visual and performative arts, literature: the artistic universe reigns at Heart Beat. In Doclisboa’s 17th edition, this section of the festival, dedicated to the cinematic showcase of the most varied artistic strands is, once again, the window to a diversified (and vibrant) range of cinematic archives, with special emphasis, this year, to the …
Heart Beat and From the Earth to the Moon programmes close with new announcements
More confirmations in the Heart Beat programme suggest a closer look into the realm of not just music, but also literature and the ‘rock’ documentary, and the essencial role that they detain. Daniel Johnston, the north-american cult musician, who enchanted us with his sweet melodies, with his songs on the poetry of the mundane, passed away …
Invited Country
INVITED COUNTRY 2020 – GEORGIA Each edition of Nebulae will invite a country and its film professionals. In 2020, with the support of the Georgian National Film Center, the Festival welcomes Georgia, with a presentation of the selected national projects in development to a wide professional audience and a programme of meetings with programmers, producers, …
Jury and Awards
Jury Chi-hui Yang He has presented programmes such as MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, “Lines and Nodes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics” (2014, Anthology Film Archives) and “The Age of Migration” (2008, Flaherty Film Seminar). From 2000-2010 he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. He has a master’s degree in film studies from …
LISBON DOCS 2019: New Gateways to Your Audience
The 20th anniversary edition of Lisbon Docs will take place from 13 to 19 October 2019 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal. At Lisbon Docs, participants will be introduced to the power of new players in the distribution and financing markets. The workshop sessions will focus on analyzing the content of the selected projects and on delivering advice …
Milla joins the party at Cinema Ideal
Milla is 17 and Leo is not much lot older. They find love and take refuge in a small town on the English Channel, far from the world. They have a son. They try to invent a life for themselves. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, through the film’s free and fluid construction, featuring Severine Jonckeere …
Nebulae
Nebula – a diffuse cloud of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass absorbs or reflects incident light or emits its own light. Some nebulae (more than one nebula) come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a …
NEBULAE – Network at Doclisboa
Nebulae is the new space for networking at Doclisboa. It is a group of activities, gatherings, opportunities and people for the advancement of the creation, production and dissemination of independent film. *NEBULAE – A diffuse cloud of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the …
Nebulae Accreditation
Nebulae uses the Eventival Visitor Page as an interface to communicate with the guests. It is also through our Visitor Page that you can apply for an Accreditation. You can check here Nebulae activities that will take place from October 22th to November 1st. Nebulae accreditation does not provide access to Doclisboa screenings. To access …
Nebulae at the EFM – European Film Market
Nebulae, the new industry project of Doclisboa, is going to Berlin, attending the 2020 edition of Berlinale and will be presented during the Salon Speeches, a new format inviting representatives of doc initiatives and organizations to present their programmes, included in the DocSalon programme, part of the EFM – European Film Market activities. The presentation …
Nebulae: Arché and RAW: Residências Arché → Work – Submissions open
Submissions for Arché and RAW: Residencies Arché → Work are now open until the 1st of June. Arché is a laboratory for professional activities that aims to provide tools for the creation of new cinematographic projects. It is run by Apordoc – The Portuguese Documentary Association and takes place in the context of Nebulae, Doclisboa’s …
New Directors | doclisboa
With the end of a cycle, a new path begins. In doclisboa’s Closing Cerimony, the new directors of the festival were announced: Joana Gusmão, Joana Sousa and Miguel Ribeiro. JOANA GUSMÃO Joana Gusmão studied English Literature at Porto University and holds an MA in Text and Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/King’s College, London. Following her studies, Gusmão was selected …
Política de Privacidade
O presente documento explicita os termos como a APORDOC — ASSOCIAÇÃO PELO DOCUMENTÁRIO, com sede em Casa do Cinema, Rua da Rosa, 277 – 2º, 1200-385 Lisboa, contribuinte n.º 504649418, procede ao tratamento das informações recolhidas e utilizadas no seu website. A APORDOC — ASSOCIAÇÃO PELO DOCUMENTÁRIO protege a privacidade dos seus dados pessoais sendo …
Presentation
Arché is a laboratory of professional activities aiming directors, producers and other film professionals. With the support of Ibermedia Programme, it intends to provide tools to new film projects, as well as moments of reflection and trainning thus fostering and assuring projects’ identity and quality. Arché’s key aims are: • To provide a space of …
Presentation
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Programme of Activities
Project Development Workshops Arché workshops target projects in different stages of development and production. They aim at providing projects in the writing and development stages with the necessary tools to explore the subject and reflect upon the strategies to implement in the film. On the other hand, they include viewing footage and/or working versions in …
Projects and Participants
You can see the complete Dossier here Under the tutorship of Andrés Duque: Azul / A Blue Unbody by Ágata de Pinho Production: Uma Pedra no Sapato (Portugal) Writing and development stage Sinopsis: She has always believed she’ll be gone when she turns 28. As that anniversary approaches she realises her mother was that same …
RAW: Arché→Work Residencies
In 2019, Doclisboa and Spanish Film Festival Márgenes present a new project: RAW: Arché→Work Residencies, six-weeks programme a creative development and training programme taking place in Arché (Doclisboa’s creative Lab), an artistic residency in Lisbon and MRG//Work, Márgenes’s development and training space With the support of Ibermedia Programme, RAW aims at continuing and strengthening Lisbon-Madrid axis …
Regulations
NOTICE These Regulations have been updated in the following manner: – with the new deadlines and fees for submissions, following the statement by Doclisboa of 27th March 2020. – with new information on the structure of the festival, juries and awards, taking into account the statement of 28 May 2020. The regulations in force until …
Regulations
1. Arché is a laboratory of professional activities taking place in the context of Doclisboa – International Film Festival. In 2019, Arché, the Creative Development Laboratory of Doclisboa and MRG//Work – Márgenes Film Festival’s Development and Production Encounter come together for a new project: RAW: Arché→Work Residencies Project.Arché also takes place in the context of …
Sailing the Euphrates
The Euphrates is a dream, a river, a myth, a space that does not exist, the Garden of Eden, Ararat, the (lost) ark, Mesopotamia, Babylon, the Eastern origin of the Western world. 2,700 km-long, the Euphrates is the result of the confluence of two main watercourses. The first one, the Kara Su, rises in Turkish …
Sailing the Euphrates, now on DocAlliance
Doclisboa takes part in a European festival structure, DocAlliance, with its own online channel. Where now, and over the next two weeks, you can see some of the films selected for Doclisboa’18 thematic focus, curated by co-director Davide Oberto, under the title Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World: Yol: the Full Version, …
Sakharov Prize – Doclisboa and European Parliament Partnership
Since 2018, Doclisboa has been collaborating with the European Parliament, with the aim of celebrating and promoting the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The award, which was established in 1988, has rewarded activists, dissidents and defenders of human rights from all over the world. This year, as a result of this collaboration, an itinerant …
Sections
International Competition New films from all over the world, with diverse poetics, forms and lengths, drawing a map of contemporary cinema through singular works that question both themselves and what they portray. Films produced after September 2019, largely screening as international or world premieres. Portuguese Competition Portuguese produced and/or directed films, with no limitations in …
Sight and Dialog at Goethe-Institut
Earlier this year, Doclisboa and Goethe-Institut Portugal devised a program of films to highlight the quality of Deutch cinema in its archives. And came up to a vision based on dialog, repeated once again between the 31st of October and the 5th of December, every friday at 6:30pm, free admittance. 31 October 6:30pm Those who go those …
Some words from the new directors
It is a great honour to be entrusted to continue to develop a project whose growth we’ve witnessed, and accompanied, with tremendous enthusiasm. In 2020, Doclisboa will turn 18, and we watch it move towards that new stage with familiar affection. We would like to thank the board of Apordoc and its members first. Apordoc …
State of the Art
Organized in collaboration with Creative Europe Desks, each edition of the State of the Art aims to open a debate around an industry topic, which will be analysed together with experts. In 2020, the topic will be the distribution of films in different contexts and European countries. An afternoon with speakers, discussions and group work, …
Submissions for the Filmmaking Seminar are now open
Filmmaking Seminar This seminar, designed in collaboration with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art and highlighting the recipients of the newly established UNDO Fellowship alongside filmmakers in the Festival selection, will explore radical filmmaking practices and the expanding languages of documentary cinema. Four open conversations, each led by a different scholar or critical writer, will …
Submissions Opened for Arché in Porto
Call for projects are now open for the second edition of Arché in Porto. Between 27th of November and 1st of December, Arché will present a project development workshop tutored by Luciano Rigolini and a pitching session open to all film professionals. An artistic residency award will be given to one of the projects by …
Submissions Opened for Arché in Porto
Call for projects are now open for the second edition of Arché in Porto. Between 27th of November and 1st of December, Arché will present a project development workshop tutored by Luciano Rigolini and a pitching session open to all film professionals. An artistic residency award will be given to one of the projects by …
Team
Organisation Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário Direction Joana Gusmão Joana Sousa Miguel Ribeiro Programme Amarante Abramovici Ana Pereira Joana Gusmão Joana Sousa Justin Jaeckle Luca D’Introno Miguel Ribeiro Sara Marques Tomás Baltazar Head of Production Hannya Melo Programme Coordinator Sara Marques Nebulae Coordinator Glenda Balucani Doc Alliance and AVA Ana Pereira Press and Communication Coordinator …
They Defend our Freedoms – 30 Years of The Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought since 1988 to individuals and organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to protecting human rights. To mark 30 years of the Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament, together with Magnum Photos, presents a new documentary project profiling four human rights activists from all …
Tribute To Pedro Fortes
Apordoc and Doclisboa will always remember Pedro Fortes. All of us have memories of our dear colleague and friend. Pedro was a dedicated, sweet and wise companion with a personal way to combine cinema and life. We were all delighted with his gentle, elegant and generous presence. And we don’t know how to write institutional …
Wang Bing and Žilnik take us “From the Earth to the Moon”
The section that premieres, out of competition, the latest films from key documentary filmmakers, will bring us a selection of 21 films that showcase the world today and the direct us towards its future. Not to be missed titles include the Cannes selected Dead Souls, by Wang Bing and Želimir Žilnik’s The Most Beautiful Country …
Winners | doclisboa’19
A journey around the world (of cinema) has come to an end. After screening more than 300 films in 10 days, over the city of Lisbon, Doclisboa is proud to announce the winners of its 17th edition. Doclisboa’19 Award Winners International Competition JURY: Billy Woodberry, Carlos Almeida, Jérôme Bel, Juliano Gomes, Leonor Silveira, …
Winners of doclisboa’19 | Screenings at Cinema Ideal
Doclisboa’s 17th edition is over but screenings continue. The awarded films will be screened at Cinema IDEAL, on October 28, 29 and 30: an opportunity to (re)watch all of the winners on the big screen. 28 OCT 6pm – Rio Torto, Mário Veloso, 16′ (Pedro Fortes Award for Best Green Years Portuguese Film & Fernando Lopes …
Within Vila Franca de Xira’s “Contemporary Realisms”
Dcolisboa inaugurates a partnership with Museu do Neo-Realismo, in Vila Franca de Xira. An extension of three documentaries from the 15th edition of the festival will take part in their annual cinema cycle, Contemporary Realisms: 9 November, 9:00pm I Don’t Belong Here Paulo Abreu / 2017 / Portugal / 75’ I don’t belong here follows the …
Work and labour in the spotlight during Doclisboa 2020
The next edition of Doclisboa will have a cycle dedicated to work. From October 22 to November 1, we will present a programme of 20 films, by directors such as Harun Farocki, Helke Sander, Hervé Le Roux, among others. Film production during the Portuguese revolutionary period will also be highlighted in this cycle. This programme …