Sections
Competition
International Competition
12 films, 5 of which world premieres, 6 international premieres and 1 European premiere, making up a selection that crosses borders, presenting one-of-a-kind perspectives and relations to reality, and providing us with unique ways of looking at the world through cinema.
City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film<br ...
Portuguese Competition
10 films, 4 of which world premieres, 1 international premiere and 1 European premiere. New directors and others previously presented at Doclisboa, in a gathering of films that reveal movements crossing the country’s borders and going beyond the present time.
MAX Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
6000€
Portuguese ...
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is the section of Doclisboa where we find films that watch, question and try to articulate seemingly loose times and narratives, enabling us to meet our own human extent. From characters who embody the contradictions of our political spaces and tell our present-day story—Der ...
Heart Beat
Marie Losier returns to Heart Beat, opening the section with Peaches Goes Bananas. Two iconic 1990s bands, Blur and Pavement, come back to the stage for their final reunions. Chris Smith infects us with the synth-pop energy of Devo, while Mathieu Amalric joins the Emerson Quartet, this time with soprano ...
New Visions
This edition of New Visions is marked by the disappearance of Augusto M. Seabra, who in 2007 thought up and created the foundations for a programme that has become pivotal to Doclisboa. The vitality of this section stems from the irreverence and unexpectedness of the programming practices that Augusto passed ...
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 ...
Green Years
Green Years continues to be a vital space for cinematic expression. With each edition, we present a selection of works that reflect the essence of the beginning of an expressive journey, celebrating the creative impulse that characterises the first film productions.
This year’s competitive selection includes 18 films from 14 ...
Retrospective
A Dance To The Music Of Time - Paul Leduc Retrospective
¿De dónde son los cantantes?
Born into a communist family in Mexico City, Paul Leduc (1942-2020) studied architecture and theatre before going to France to the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC), where he discovered the work of Jean Rouch. After returning home, he actively participated in the film club ...
Retrospective Back to the Future
The original ambition behind this title, which is a nod to film history, was to cover the bond that links modernism, that is to say the utopia of the 20th century, and cinema with a few films. One knows that the assumptions of universality, the trust in geometry, the desire ...
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
3000€ (includes the acquisition of the television rights for Portugal)
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
5000€
INATEL Foundation Award
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
1500€
Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award
Legal Partners Portugal Award for Best Film Dealing with Human Rights from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and competitions.
1500€