SECREENINGS OF THE AWARD WINNING FILMS OF DOCLISBOA’22
17 Out | Cinema Ideal
17h30
Calling Cabral
Welket Bungué
2022 • Portugal • 19’
A film shaped by mysticism, the poetics of simultaneity, and the voice of resistance and reflection in Amílcar Cabral.
Portuguese Authors Society – Portuguese Competition Jury Award
Bentuguese
Daniel Borga
2022 • Portugal • 16’
Pedro Fortes Award for Best Green Years Portuguese Film
After school, a group of children gathers at Casa de São Bento, where a community project is located and they have the freedom to dream, play and grow. Inside a time machine, they think about their future.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Naama Heiman
2022 • Germany• 46’
Le Fresnoy Award for Best Green Years Film
“I borrow my roommate’s camera to make a film about him. It’s supposed to be a great documentary. The only problem is, I have feelings for him that he doesn’t feel back, there is a new world pandemic and we are stuck together in the same house.” Naama Heiman
10.00 PM
Goodbye, Captain
Tatiana Almeida, Vincent Carelli
2022 • Brazil • 178’
Practice, Tradition and Heritage Award – INATEL Foundation Award
Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, tells his granddaughters his story. From the wars of the ‘brave Indian’ to the contact with the ‘White man’, from the devastation of contagion to the end of the Gavião world, Krohokrenhum leads a movement to reconstruct the memory of his people – accompanied by Vincent Carelli since the first VHS recording cameras. Finished after the Captain’s passing, the film is the posthumous return of these records to the Gavião community. Krohokrenhum leaves his shadow and leads the new generations in a solo chant.
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18 OCT | Cinema Ideal
5.30 PM
The Beach of Enchaquirados
Iván Mora Manzano
2021 • Ecuador • 87’
Healthy Workplaces Film Award
Vicky is a fisherman by day and bar owner at night. When she was a little boy her dream was to be a radio soap opera star; nowadays she dreams of falling in love again. How is it possible that a small, barren place in the third world has managed to achieve this special form of freedom and tolerance?
10.00 PM
Vexations
Leonardo Mouramateus
2022 • Portugal • 23’
HBO Max Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film (Ex aequo)
Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro is organising an archive that is over 30 years old and crosses his work in contemporary dance with the history of the Lisbon studio he is about to vacate. In a few days, João will be dancing for seven hours uninterruptedly in a last performance before the final closure of Atelier RE.AL.
The Visit and a Secret Garden
Irene M. Borrego
2022 • Spain, Portugal • 64’
HBO Max Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film (Ex aequo) and
Schools Award – ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
Little is known about the mysterious Isabel Santaló, a painter from the 1950s and 1960s who now lives in a small apartment in the outskirt of Madrid. Every once in a while, visitors drop by her house. Through them and the voice of Antonio López (El sol de membrillo, by Víctor Erice), the only painter from her generation that remembers her, a striking biography is drawn. A film about memory and oblivion, about art and the creative process, about what it means to be a woman and an artist.
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19 OCT | Cinema Ideal
5.30 PM
Home, Revised
Inês Pedrosa e Melo
2022 • Portugal • 28’
Fernando Lopes Award – Midas Filmes and Doclisboa Award for Best Portuguese First Film
While trying to make a film that makes sense of home movies from her home country, Portugal, a filmmaker in the beginning of her career talks with other filmmakers in the hopes of understanding what it takes to make cinema out of archival images.
It’s Party Time
Léo Liotard
2022 • Belgium • 69’
New Talent Award – TVCine Channels Award for Best First Feature-Length Film
“I filmed my friends between 1995 and 2000, in France, with a Hi8 camcorder. We were in high school: we smoked firecrackers, we watched movies, we listened to music. We were sixteen, twenty, we were partying”. The director revisits archives of his youth. Once it seemed an accidental documentation of shared life, full of hopes and anticipation of the future. Now these grainy video images contain the whole universe, non-existing anymore. It is inhabited by shadows, including the passed away friend. Eternity is found in cinema, in which time is regained, according to Léo Liotard.
10.00 PM
May the Earth Become the Sky
Ana Vîjdea
2022 • Romenia. Portugal, Hungary, Belgium • 15’
Award for Best Short Film
Maria, a 48-year-old woman, is trapped between two worlds—one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.
A Date in Minsk
Nikita Lavretski
2022 • Belarus • 88’
City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film
Nikita and Volha have been maintaining a dysfunctional relationship for the past 8 years. In the following movie they play fictional Nikita and Volha who have only just met. Can anything be started anew at the end of history? The actors’ improvised conversation becomes an occasion not only to analyse the history of their rebooted relationship, but also to understand their place in the history of Belarus. Nikita Lavretski, one of the leading voices of new Belarusian cinema, comes back to Doclisboa with this bittersweet reflection on his country masterfully shot in one take by Yulia Shatun.
