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 inhabiting the Chelsea Hotel. The 40 years of Mata-Ratos and the work of Margot Dias. We question power with the Three Marias and enter Rui Reininho’s dreams. We move to another world with Lynch, Godard and Vladimir Léon. We focus on the work of Jamaican pioneer Perry Henzell, and on the friendship between Mathieu Amalric and John Zorn.

FOCUS PERRY HENZELL

Perry Henzell was a film director, writer and political activist who produced and distributed the two films he made in a completely independent way. Two outstanding works that left an imprint in Caribbean filmmaking and showed the world the Rastafari culture and reggae sounds. Doclisboa shows new prints of The Harder They Come and No Place Like Home.

10 Oct — 18:30 / 102’
Cinema Ideal

The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell
A primeira longa-metragem jamaicana flui entre neo-realismo e blaxploitation. Um músico rural viaja até Kingston à procura de fama e fortuna. Perante produtores discográficos desonestos e polícias corruptos, acaba por ganhar notoriedade como assassino.
07 Oct — 18:30 / 89’
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No Place Like Home

Perry Henzell
O filme foi rodado em 1973, mas o negativo só foi redescoberto e concluído em 2006. Um road movie sinuoso que conta a história de uma produtora nova-iorquina que vai à Jamaica para filmar um anúncio a um champô. Estreia de Grace Jones no grande ecrã.

ZORN BY AMALRIC

Actor and director Mathieu Amalric met saxophone player and composer John Zorn 12 years ago. A friendship between the two arose in that first encounter, and Amalric has been filming Zorn ever since. Together, they create a declaration of endless friendship, which is here presented in three cinematic gestures, each following a given period of time. Three moments of developing music, a constellation of energies, an ever-expanding sound universe.

13 Oct — 19:00 / 114’
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Amalric has been filming Zorn. These are the two first moments of this series, filmed between 2010 and 2018. We follow Zorn working, traveling, and listening to and playing music with full attention. As Amalric once said, “All the variations, the facets, the richness, the energy, the spirituality, the mood and the emotions of the music”.

Zorn I (2010-2017)

Mathieu Amalric
Actor and director Mathieu Amalric met John Zorn in 2009, when he was a narrator at the French premiere of Zorn’s Shir Hashirim [Song of Songs] at the Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris. When a television network commissioned Amalric to make a portrait, he started filming his new [...]

Zorn II (2016-2018)

Mathieu Amalric
In Zorn II, John Zorn’s deep thought and philosophy of life are written on the screen while we follow his movement, his music, and him working, listening to and playing music with full attention. As Amalric once said in an interview, “All the variations, the facets, the richness, the energy, [...]
14 Oct — 19:00 / 78’
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Zorn III (2018-2022)

Mathieu Amalric
O terceiro momento desta amizade regista o encontro entre a soprano Barbara Hannigan e John Zorn durante os preparativos para a apresentação de Jumalattaret. Os ensaios decorrem em Lisboa, nos estúdios da Gulbenkian, com o pianista Stephen Gosling.

CINEKOMIX!!!

Over the course of three decades, Edgar Pêra interviewed some of the most prominent comic book makers in the world. Based on that material, the filmmaker created a series of 13 episodes, each dedicated to an artist, that will premiere in the Portuguese independent TV channel Canal 180. Doclisboa presents three of those encounters in a session that crosses the way film and comics work on the relation between images in sequence.

16 Oct — 19:45 / 60’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3

Three meetings with three rather different artists who left an imprint on the way comic books are made and read. Neil Gaiman combines terror, phantasy and political remarks on the world. José Carlos Fernandes is one of the most original Portuguese authors and the creator of A Pior Banda do Mundo. Tommi Musturi is a chameleon-like artist who employs a variety of illustration styles without ever losing his creative identity.

CINEKOMIX!!! José Carlos Fernandes

Edgar Pêra
José Carlos Fernandes is one of the most original Portuguese comic book authors. He has published more than 30 books, particularly the award-wining series A Pior Banda do Mundo. Some of these books have been translated in several languages, and his works have been exhibited at international comic book festivals.

CINEKOMIX!!! Neil Gaiman

Edgar Pêra
Edgar Pêra interviews writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman at BD Forum Lisbon in 2003. A conversation about Gaiman’s work, which combines elements of terror with phantasy and political remarks on contemporary world, blending narrative genres. His most famous book series, Sandman, was adapted for television this year. It [...]

CINEKOMIX!!! Tommi Musturi

Edgar Pêra
Tommi Musturi is one of today’s most complex comic book authors. Much like a chameleon, this artist employs different illustration styles to create comics without ever losing his creative identity. Same as Pessoa, who granted his heteronyms different styles, Musturi makes use of a variety of languages according to the [...]
11 Oct — 19:00 / 84’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

Set against the backdrop of a traditional Portuguese society, Fado Bicha (trans)forms heteronormative Fado music into a queer labyrinth of self-acceptance and self-expression. In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. It was the return of far-right ideology to the country and Quem tem Medo? reveals the censorship artists faced during Bolsonaro’s government.

It's not Fado, It's Faggot Fado

Erin Macpherson
Set against the backdrop of a traditional Portuguese society, Fado Bicha (trans)forms heteronormative Fado music into a queer labyrinth of self-acceptance and self-expression. By reclaiming the scars that homophobia and transphobia have given them, Fado Bicha exposes what Fado music could have been if society were more accepting.   Director [...]

Who Is Afraid?

Dellani Lima, Henrique Zanoni, Ricardo Alves Jr.
In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. It was the return of far-right ideology to a country that from 1964 to 1985 experienced a violent military dictatorship marked by censorship against the arts and the persecution and exile of artists. This could be noticed again in Bolsonaro’s government.
10 Oct — 22:00 / 90’
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15 Oct — 21:30 / 90’
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The story of Yarokamena, a Colombian indigenous person who organized armed resistance to rubber exploitation at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1978, Argentinian folklore musician Jorge Cafrune was possibly killed by a far-right group. We delve into his musical legacy and his relationships with other icons like Mercedes Sosa or Atahualpa Yupanqui.

Yarokamena

Andrés Jurado
Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person, organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death.   Director Andrés Jurado will be present in both screenings.

Cafrune

Julián Giulianelli
In 1978, Jorge Cafrune, musician and Argentinian folklore icon, set out on horseback to cross the country to pay tribute to the liberator general, José de San Martín. On the first night on the road, he was hit by a van. Some believe that the crime was ordered by a [...]
16 Oct — 16:00 / 68’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

11 and a Half Questions to Julio Calasso

Ricardo Pinheiro
A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, the resistance, the night, the dictatorship, South and North America, Cinema Novo and Boca do Lixo cinema are discussed.
Questions and Answers
08 Oct — 14:00 / 75’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3
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11 Oct — 18:30 / 75’
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Broken Soul

Gonzalo García-Pelayo
A film director goes looking for places in Portugal to shoot her next film. A Resnais and experimental film enthusiast, she tries to create a narrative that blends her own story and that of a singer with whom she had a past affair.
11 Oct — 21:15 / 107’
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16 Oct — 21:45 / 107’
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Bettina

Lutz Pehnert
The life of author, composer and singer Bettina Wegner was shaped by that of Cold War Germany. Born in West Berlin in 1947 and raised in East Berlin, she wanted to shape society with her songs and eventually became a resistance fighter.
08 Oct — 18:15 / 112’
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16 Oct — 16:00 / 112’
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Dancing Pina

Florian Heinzen-Ziob
Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance with her choreography. A young generation of dancers is rediscovering her: the Semperoper Ballet Company is rehearsing Iphigenia in Tauris, and dancers from all over Africa are rehearsing The Rite of Spring.
12 Oct — 21:45 / 116’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira
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15 Oct — 19:15 / 116’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3

DIO: Dreamers Never Die

Demian Fenton, Don Argott
Ronnie James Dio is a heavy metal legend with one of the most iconic voices ever. He has fronted or founded numerous groups, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, DIO, and Heaven & Hell. A film about perseverance, dreams and the power to believe in yourself.
08 Oct — 16:00 / 80’
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15 Oct — 20:15 / 80’
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Dreaming Walls

Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier
The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture—former residents and regulars have included Patti Smith, Jim Morrison and Robert Mapplethorpe—and an artists’ refuge for over a century, will soon reopen as a luxury hotel.
06 Oct — 21:30 / 90’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3
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15 Oct — 15:00 / 90’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

Tim Mackenzie-Smith
In the UK of the early 1970s, a group of black musicians combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean grooves to form a unique sound. Despite success in the USA, they disbanded. But the music lived on, prompting their return after forty years.
10 Oct — 19:00 / 101’
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15 Oct — 17:30 / 101’
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Godard Cinema

Cyril Leuthy
Jean-Luc Godard made more than 140 films. His itinerary followed only one direction: a constant renewal of his art. In this film, Godard talks about his experiments, obsessions and discoveries over the decades of incessant work.
13 Oct — 19:00 / 52’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

João Ayres, an Independent Painter

Diogo Varela Silva
Filme sobre o pintor João Ayres (1921-2001), figura em trânsito entre Moçambique e Portugal que foi sendo esquecida das cronografias da arte moderna portuguesa, europeia ou africana, sobre a sua família e sobre a casa que construiu e onde viveu.
10 Oct — 21:45 / 110’
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16 Oct — 21:45 / 110’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

Lynch/Oz

Alexandre O. Philippe
O realizador convida críticos e cineastas para explorar um dos enigmas mais fascinantes na história da imagem em movimento: a simbiose duradoura entre o conto de fadas primordial americano que é O Feiticeiro de Oz, e o surrealismo popular único de Lynch.
11 Oct — 19:00 / 72’
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16 Oct — 22:00 / 72’
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Margot

Catarina Alves Costa
Between 1958 and 1961, Margot Dias participated in four ethnographic missions to the northern end of Mozambique. She shot and taped unique recordings of Makonde culture. As she meets with Makonde people today, the director seeks the gaze of the other director.
13 Oct — 21:15 / 78’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

Mata-Ratos Live at Octógono – Fundão

Patrick Mendes
Os Mata-Ratos, lendas do punk português, celebram 40 anos de existência e o realizador volta a acompanhá-los na digressão pelo país. Encontramo-los no Fundão, dentro das paredes suadas do Octógono, num concerto cheio de distorção, cerveja e moches.
12 Oct — 18:30 / 92’
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13 Oct — 22:00 / 92’
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Music for Black Pigeons

Andreas Koefoed, Jørgen Leth
Os realizadores acompanharam o compositor Jakob Bro nos últimos 14 anos, testemunhando os seus encontros com músicos de várias gerações e nacionalidades. O filme coloca questões existenciais: o que se sente quando se toca e o que significa escutar?
09 Oct — 16:30 / 77’
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What Words Can Do

Luísa Marinho, Luísa Sequeira
Em 1972, três escritoras publicaram As Novas Cartas Portuguesas, abordando temas proibidos durante o Estado Novo, como a Guerra Colonial, o adultério, a violação ou o aborto. O livro foi imediatamente banido e as escritoras julgadas por crimes contra a moral.
Questions and Answers
07 Oct — 22:00 / 91’
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15 Oct — 14:30 / 91’
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Still Working 9 to 5

Camille Hardman, Gary Lane
When the highest grossing comedy, 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on the cinema screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about women in the office. Still Working 9 to 5 explores why workplace inequality 40 years later is no longer a laughing matter.
14 Oct — 22:00 / 73’
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The King's Voyage

João Pedro Moreira
Uma viagem pela cabeça do poeta e provocador Rui Reininho. Da inocência à descoberta do pecado, do anarquismo à salvação pela arte, o filme revela os processos criativos e a visão do mundo de uma das maiores referências culturais vivas em Portugal.
07 Oct — 19:15 / 71’
Cinema São Jorge Sala 3
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08 Oct — 15:30 / 71’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira

Your Bare Legs

Vladimir Léon
Numa quinta isolada no meio dos alpes franceses, o agricultor/engenheiro electrónico Jean-Philippe Valla desenvolve técnicas de auto-suficiência energética e alimentar. A coreógrafa Julie Desprairies junta-se-lhe para ensaiar com dançarinos e músicos.