Green Years

After premiering The Protagonist in Doclisboa’s 2020 edition, Jenna Hasse returns to the Festival to open the Green Years section. In the feverish summer heat, three lost souls meet on…

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present coalesce, creating resonances between the volcanic landscape and…

A cinematic journey between times and places. About a so-called guest worker from Greece who went to Germany. About life in a small Greek mountain village, family and personal loss.

A young Filipino filmmaker spends his winter with a naturist in Lisbon. As the sunless days continue, the two find light in each other’s company.

An absurd and grainy collage of hope and madness told through different groups of boys and men, all connected through their bodies, having in common high expectations for the night’s…

A world disappears with a dazzling light over the territory, enough to destroy everything. The night is extinguished, the earth burns and the creatures run away. Resorting to memory and archive images,…

Reimagining Walter Hugo Khouri’s Noite Vazia, (1964), Entre Rios is an introspective exploration of a young man’s journey from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo. A film where time and scape…

Once upon a time, there was a castle on a mountain, with a man inside. The man placed all the conflict and all the beauty of the world inside the…

There are 57 female weavers who work on the coasts of the Basque Country, a traditional occupation that they continue as if time had stopped. With their hands covered in…

Men in prison face their experiences, their words tracing the paths of their trying lives. Time passes, testing patience and sharpening the expectation of the end of their confinement. To…

The labor market during the pandemic pushes Kateryna to work in a fraudulent call centre that sells vitamins that promise ‘magical’ success to its consumers. Months of isolation, irritated customers…

On International Human Rights Day, I lost my right to stay in Europe. On the same day, Diário de um Crime was born. What is a documentary (a document of…

There are sinuous borders in the millimetres of tension between what’s visible to the human eye and what can only be seen through the machine. Surrounded by volumes of data,…

A film written by neural network GPT-3 about places intertwined by the fates of gods.

Tiziano is a little boy almost like the others. He grows up between the demonstrations in Chile, reproduces the events with plastic gun toys, and shares what it feels to…

Inspired by Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, the film consists of excerpts from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Łódź in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of…

The camera follows Sunday school lessons for fourth graders at the parish of Santo António de Moscavide. They reflect upon and learn about the Catholic religion, and some of them…

Zoran is an urban legend who always disappears before the Sun rises again in the sky. The film follows all the versions of this legend by various people that admire…

The protagonists of this film, mostly from Serbian villages in the Knin area, in the Dalmatian hinterland, whose population was exiled after the Croatian military and police operation Oluja in…

September, Paris-Nanterre University. A hundred students find themselves without an assignment as the academic year begins. Faced with this situation, they decide to make their voices heard and are joined…

“A scream breaks the stillness of the landscape. It continues until the lungs are empty. It is sleeting. I keep going. An attempt to separate a single moment from another…

The mental landscape of Finland in 1996.

Two barking dogs are running around an island. A camera at sea is following them. The image changes in size and that creates an illusion of distance. An odd sense…

A frantic video collage made from fragments of television ads and news clips with screams and split-seconds of soundtracks fighting for space. Political figures merge into bikini girls who merge…

A Tibetan cow is eating a Chinese cardboard box on a Himalayan highway. But what are the consequences?

A cautious but curious dog is watching over her yard and gets drawn into a world of appearances where all events past and future only exist for an audience.

Young Anon discovers the digital, binary root of everything during a school trip to New York. An associative and abstractly structured video about the boundaries of communication in the hinterland…

In a post-cinematic sequel of Chris Marker’s La Jetée, N. N. is asked to take a daily trip with the iGum, a smartphone-operated device, capable of accessing, altering and recording…

Täysille katsomoille is a 13 minute long short documentary that takes the viewer to an amateur theatre group rehearsal in a small country town. The work tells about the life…

A poetic depiction of Sicilian folklore traditions, Swan Song is a farewell to a time that no longer exists. A folk song, performed by old Sicilians, arouses memories and creates…

The origins and the paths departing from them. For Full Audience follows a group of amateur theatre. In Swan Song, a puppet fights oblivion. Rondo illustrates the strangeness of a…

A portrait of a place and time, concealing and revealing, a figure in the middle of a strongly structured, mechanised nature unfolds life from within.

Paola tries to reconstruct her past and find the reasons why she is away from her homeland and family, using archive material with memories from her mother’s graduation, a journey…

While going about repetitive domestic activities, someone hazily recalls events from the past. This film explores the distrust in one’s own memory when addressing subjects for which suspicion is deeply…

When the time stood still, there was nothing to be done. The woman got up and walked around the flat. Things were as they were, with their meanings, still in…

A film about a young urban couple, consisting of ten sequences that could be taken from everyday life. Suspense dominates, something has happened or is about to. Each character appears…

An elderly couple approaches the camera in a snowy countryside road lit by the front lights of a car. The cars come and go. The passing headlights reveal the faces…

The artists-characters in the film set themselves unwillingly into roles they suppose others expect from them.

A film about the ability to use one’s imagination.

A girl comes to the dressing room and closes the room with the curtains to change her clothes. The swimsuit feels too big and a knot for straps alone is…

A young woman chats with the audience, telling us all her secrets, all the stories about the boys in her life. Treating us like her closest friends.

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

The film is based on interviews with three youngsters who say what they think about their appearance, gender and place in society.

In this humoristic short film a young woman is ironing a men’s shirt and caressing a kitten.