Opening and Closing Sessions
Competitions
International Competition
12 films, 5 of which world premieres and 6 international premieres, from different places and cultures and with distinct aesthetics. What they share is a generous and emotional approach to the reality around us, be it more personal stories or novel-like narratives.
Portuguese Competition
12 films, 8 of which world premieres, in an encounter between new directors and others whom Doclisboa has presented before. Portuguese cinema challenging itself in investigations on space, time, family, memory and love.
Sections
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon, we leave Dovzhenko’s Earth through poetry in motion. We highlight three films by Vincent Carelli and the way his work brings together Amerindian communities and their images and history. Herzog presents the life of Katia and Maurice Krafft with images of fire. Argonauts such [...]
Heart Beat
The strokes of painter João Ayres and the gestures guided by Pina Bausch. The activism of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. Jazz, funk, Argentinian folklore, heavy metal and German protest songs. The fight in the voice of Fado Bicha or Brazilian artists in Quem tem Medo?. The memories [...]
New Visions
“Love, like cinema, cannot exist in the absence of risk”, said filmmaker Elisabeth Perceval. In this section, we present the vertigo of a cinema that takes a chance, questions its limits and relates its history with its future. Éric Baudelaire and Ana Carolina are the invited directors. Life is flooded [...]
Green Years
In the 20th edition of Doclisboa, The Green Years section continues to follow and present the work of upcoming directors from all over Europe. This year, the competition comprises 21 premieres from 13 different countries. We partner with Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts to present a focus [...]
Cinema of Urgency
Cinema of Urgency continues to be the place of and for an urgent discussion community around images and the pulse of the world. This year, it makes room for the perspectives of children and youths, and it presents us with new narratives about places, experiences and absences. In two sessions, [...]
Retrospectives
Retrospective Carlos Reichenbach
In the 1960s, in the middle of the Brazilian military dictatorship, a film movement arose in São Paulo that broke with the narrative, aesthetic and social limits of the time. It was called Cinema of Invention, Cinema Marginal or Udigrudi, and one of its main figures was Carlos Reichenbach (1945-2012).
Retrospective The Colonial Question
Paraphrasing Sartre, a few reflections on the colonial question… in filmmaking. In this case, we stick to recent history, the African continent, and the former Portuguese and French colonies. The starting point is the end of the Algerian War—which symbolises the end of French colonies, skilfully kept under neo-colonial rule—that [...]
Cross-Sectional Competition
New Talent Award
TVCine Channels Award for Best First Feature-Length Film (over 60’) from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and Cinema of Urgency. 3500€ (includes the acquisition of the television rights for Portugal).
Award for Best Short Film (up to 40’)
The winner will be pre-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Doclisboa – International Film Festival was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to pre-nominate candidates to the Oscars®, thus becoming the only Portuguese festival to take part in the network of Academy-qualified [...]
Healthy Workplaces Film Award
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Award for Best Feature-Length Film Dealing with Work from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and Cinema of Urgency. 5000€ [...]
Practice, Tradition and Heritage Award
INATEL Foundation Award for Best Film Dealing with Cultural and Traditional Practices as well as Intangible Cultural Heritage from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and Cinema of Urgency. 1500€ [...]
Fernando Lopes Award
Midas Filmes and Doclisboa Award for Best Portuguese First Film: 2000€ [...]