Doclisboa seeks to imagine reality through new cinematic forms of perception, reflection and action, placing filmmaking into dialogue with its history to question the present of cinema. Doclisboa is interested in films that are rigorous about their conceptual and formal implications; films that experiment with cinema’s artistic and political possibilities and refuse to be categorized; films that engage with and mirror the complexity of the world. Doclisboa offers a ground where cinema and the contemporary are investigated as acts of being together in, and with, time.

doclisboa

Portuguese Competition

Meio Ano-Luz

Half a Light-Year

Leonardo Mouramateus

2021 • Portugal, Brazil • 19’

World Premiere

Short Film Award

A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other.

Constelações do Equador

Distopia

Don’t Hesitate to Come for a Visit, Mom