Doclisboa unveils the first confirmed titles for the 20th edition of the festival: 5 films that take part of the From the Earth to the Moon section, featuring unique looks that build bridges between history and the future, and 5 films from the Heart Beat section that bring a diversity of representations of the art world.
The beating heart of Doclisboa is once again playing cards between dance, music and literature.
The life and work of legendary vocalist Ronnie James Dio, one of the biggest names in Heavy Metal history, through the testimonies of family and close friends, crossed with archival footage, is featured in DIO: Dreamers Never Die, by Don Argott, Demian Fenton.
In Dreaming Walls, directors Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier take us through the history of the mythical Chelsea Hotel, home to so many artists, filmmakers and musicians in the 1960s, such as Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen or Stanley Kubrick, and whose future seems compromised due to the gentrification that is sweeping the city of New York.
The iconic trio formed by Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin revisits the film 9 to 5 in Still Working 9 to 5, by Camille Hardman and Gary Lane. The film examines the struggles of gender equality and labor discrimination in the context of the United States, from the late 1970s to the more recent Me Too movement.
From the USA to the Portuguese case, Luísa Sequeira and Luísa Marinho present, in a world premiere, What Words Can Do. The film brings into dialogue Portuguese writers Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, authors of the unique literary work New Portuguese Letters, whose publication was censored by Portuguese dictatorship and would lead to the famous Three Marias trial, in the early 1970’s. The film reflects on the creative process and the impact of the book on their lives and on the feminist movement in the international context.
In Dancing Pina, Florian Heinzen-Ziob follows the rehearsals of two dance companies that re-enact work by Pina Bausch, in an intimate record with stunning images that pays tribute to the legacy of one of the greatest choreographers of recent times.
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, by Werner Herzog, is an elegy on the French volcanologist couple, built from their extensive archive of images captured throughout their life’s work capturing the essence of active volcanoes. .
In To the End, Rachel Lears follows four environmental activists, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in the Green New Deal proposal to reduce carbon emissions and reshape the US economy.
Also made from political gestures is Brazilian film Secret Friend, by Maria Augusta Ramos. In October, the month in which the country’s political course will be decided, Doclisboa will present the filmmaker’s most recent film, which follows a major journalistic investigation case – Vaza Jato – carried out by The Intercept Brazilian team, in a reflection on the political, legal and and the ethical role of the press.
Also from Brazil, comes Goodbye, Captain, where filmmakers Vincent Carelli and Tatiana Almeida build the posthumous portrait of Krohokrenhum, leader and central figure of resistance of the Gavião indigenous people, in the interior of the state of Pará, in Brazil. The film closes the trilogy – alongside Corumbiara and Martírio – on the struggle and resistance of indigenous peoples, which Doclisboa will present at the festival.
In October, the festival will welcome Maria Augusto Ramos and Vincent Carelli, as well as filmmaker Rithy Panh who will be in Lisbon to show his latest essay-film Everything Will Be Ok, awarded this year in Berlin with the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, which takes place in a dystopian future and analyzes the history of totalitarianism and democracy.
Doclisboa will return from the 6th to the 16th of October.
