Doc Alliance

Doc Alliance is a festival network whose aim is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote creative documentary films. Aside from Doclisboa, its members are CPH:DOX, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, DOK Leipzig, FIDMarseille, Ji.hlava and Visions du Réel. Starting in 2008, the seven documentary festivals have nominated seven films for the Doc Alliance Award each year. Here, we present a selection of this year’s nominees, including the winners (both short and feature-length).

One Screening Only
18 Oct / 10:30 / 106’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Smoke of the Fire

O Fumo do Fogo
Daryna Mamaisur

There is Portugal, there is the Portuguese language and there is a Ukrainian filmmaker who learns the language and approaches the role of the potential…

Crushed

Camille Vigny

“Summer is the season for stock cars. The cars get ready for a long day of racing that will end in their total demolition. I…

In Limbo

W zawieszeniu
Alina Maksimenko

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine finds Alina in Irpien, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a cast. She manages to escape with her…

One Screening Only
27 Oct / 21:45 / 116’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira

Grandmamauntsistercat

Zuza Banasińska

Created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, the film tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a…

Balomania

Sissel Morrell Dargis

In the heart of Brazil’s favelas, the director gains unprecedented access to the hidden world of the ‘balloon mafia’. For baloeiros in Rio and São…