From the Earth to the Moon is once again a crossing packed with time projected onto the screens of Doclisboa. Werner Herzog goes on a journey to the brain in the film Theater of Thought and Luis Ospina retrieves lost Colombian cinema and puts forward new narratives of intense love. Alain Cavalier embraces us with his L’Amitié. Ulises de la Orden brings us a master piece based on the archives of the trial of the Military Juntas in Argentina. Frederick Wiseman plunges us into the dining and tasting world. From the Earth to the Moon is a possibility of cinema, that place between life and art, to quote Godard.
From the Earth to the Moon
A dialogue where Mohamad’s beliefs give rise to a complicity between the director and the protagonist. “I no longer had any critical sense. I even had empathy for him, a killer.” In Alone with War, the key issue Danielle Arbid raises in this ghostly incursion is: What kind of peace can we have after a war?
A Killer
Danielle Arbid
2023
France, Lebanon
15’
“I met Mohamad A. in 2000. I spent months listening to him telling me how he fought and killed. Through him, I wanted to know if I too would have…
Alone with War
Danielle Arbid
2000
France
60’
“Beirut is a magnificent city. One would say it is at the centre of everything. In Beirut there was a civil war from 1975 to 1990, that is to say…
Khabur follows the journey of Tell Halaf’s archeological collection towards Berlin, where it has resided since 1930. The statues become the protagonists of the film, narrating the story. In the heart of Brittany, Jean embarks in a soliloquy on the trail of the asphodels. Space and time confront one another at all times, retrieving moments of light.
Khabur
Nafis Fathollahzadeh
2023
Iran, Germany
31’
Climate crisis, the ongoing war, water policies, and dam building across the border by the Turkish state are among the reasons contributing to the drying up of the Khabur River…
The Trail of the Asphodels
Maxime Martinot
2023
88’
In the heart of Brittany, Jean embarks on a crazy soliloquy on the trail of the asphodels. Walking the entire path with him, the camera meets the inhabitants and the…
During the Russian occupation, the houses of Szestowica’s inhabitants were demolished, their belongings stolen, and their loved ones remain on the frontlines. In Strata Incognita, with science fiction nuances, one questions the political strength of a landscape. In Human, not Human, Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Street View for a cent each, and sinks into arobotic world that raises the question of humanity.
Vyrai
Magdalena Mistygacz, Jakub Stoszek
2023
Poland, Ukraine
30’
Szestowica’s inhabitants form a strong community. During the Russian occupation, their houses were demolished, belongings stolen, and their loved ones remain on the frontlines. Although military actions are no longer…
Strata Incognita
Grandeza Studio (Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol), Locument (Francisco Lobo, Romea Muryn)
2023
Portugal, Spain
17’
Soil is our closest alien world. Strata Incognita is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and…
Human, not Human
Natan Castay
2023
Belgium
40’
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Street View for a cent each. It’s the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on…
L’Amitié
Alain Cavalier
2022
France
124’
“I’ve intensely shared my cinematographic work with a few people, until reaching a friendship that is still ongoing. To film such a sentimental liaison today is a pleasure stripped of…
Areia, Lodo e Mar
Amilcar Lyra
1977
Portugal
58’
Areia, Lodo e Mar focuses on the life of the Island of Culatra’s fishing community and on their living conditions. Elso Roque is responsible for the gorgeous cinematography that records…
A Câmara
Tiago de Aragão, Cristiane Brum Bernardes
2023
Brazil
89’
The Brazilian National Congress mostly comprises men. The film unprecedentedly follows elected women from different political spectrums conducting politics in the Chamber of Deputies in the last year of Jair…
The Cemetery of Cinema
Thierno Souleymane Diallo
2023
France, Senegal, Guinea, United Arab Emirates
93’
In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed Mouramani, a film considered as the first ever made by a black French-speaking director. However, the mystery remains. No one knows where to find a…
Cinéma Laika
Veljko Vidak
2023
France, Finland
81’
In a small village in Finland, which has relied solely on metallurgical activities for the past two centuries, Aki Kaurismäki and his friend, the poet and writer Mika Lätti, are…
The Girls of 1960
Una Celma
2023
Latvia
71’
Those women who are currently 60. An entire generation of women who bear it without self-pity or self-praise. When they were little, they were taught to be polite, patient and…
La Guardia Blanca
Julien Elie
2023
Canada
110’
The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wire fences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed,…
The Liberated Broom, Listen to the Story I Was Told
Coline Grando
2023
Belgium
89’
While discovering the existence of Balai Libéré, a self-managed cleaning company in the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian University campus are questioning their working conditions and the feasibility…
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman
2023
France, United States
240’
Founded in 1930, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding 3 Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. Michel Troisgros, the third generation to head the restaurant, has turned…
Motherland
Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka
2023
Sweden, Ukraine, Norway
96’
Motherland underscores the causes and consequences of the decades-old tradition of violent bullying and torture as a means of control over Belarusian military conscripts. Svetlana lives with this traumatic reality:…
On the Edge
Nicolas Peduzzi
2023
France
103’
Jamal Abdel Kader is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, to…
An Owl, a Garden and the Writer
Sara Dolatabadi
2023
Iran, France, Switzerland
83’
In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary…
Silent Witnesses
Luis Ospina, Jerónimo Atehortúa Arteaga
2023
Colombia, France
79’
A cinematic collage based on all the surviving Colombian silent cinema, reediting the images so as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story between Efraín and Alicia,…
Theater of Thought
Werner Herzog
2023
United States
108’
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape—the human brain—for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical,…
The Trial
Ulises de la Orden
2023
Argentina, France, Italy, Norway
177’
1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The trial of the Military Juntas of the last dictatorship (1976/83), accused of crimes against humanity. As in Nuremberg after World War II, the trial is…
Yvy Pyte – Coração da Terra
Alberto Alvares, José Cury
2023
Brazil, Paraguay
111’
This feature documentary was born out of the desire of Guarani filmmaker Alberto Alvares (Tupã Ra’y) to return to his native village. Historically, several borders have been imposed on Guarani…