International Competition

20 Oct / 21:30 / 61’
Culturgest - Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar
22 Oct / 14:00 / 61’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/13-alfinetes/

13 Alfinetes

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Miracles still happen. At least, so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Returning to a myth that haunts…

20 Oct / 18:30 / 138’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
23 Oct / 10:30 / 138’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/about-space-and-depth/

About Space and Depth

Paula Gaitán

An intimate and ongoing dialogue between filmmaker Paula Gaitán and Ken Jacobs, one of the world’s greatest masters of experimental cinema. Filmed over the last…

16 Oct / 18:30 / 65’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
17 Oct / 14:00 / 65’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/the-centaur/

The Centaur

Le Centaure
Jacques Meilleurat

Half a century later, Meilleurat casts Fanny Ardant as Marguerite Duras (her) and Basile Meilleurat (his son) as Gérard Depardieu (him), and tackles the screenplay…

17 Oct / 16:30 / 88’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
19 Oct / 11:00 / 88’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/for-the-moon/

For the Moon

Car la lune
Éric Baudelaire

Shot at the National Institute for the Young Blind in Paris, For the Moon is a collaborative work created with five visually impaired students. Moving…

21 Oct / 19:00 / 69’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
23 Oct / 14:00 / 69’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/geography-is-destiny/

Geography Is Destiny

Geografiyata e Sadba
Rayna Teneva

The director returns to her homeland in a Bulgarian valley long shaped by the dichotomy of “Guns and Roses”: the harvest of roses that stretches…

22 Oct / 19:00 / 98’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
24 Oct / 11:00 / 98’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/the-measured-everlasting-is-1-334-billion-years/

The Measured Everlasting Is 1.334 Billion Years

Kamphaeng Chakkrawan
Thunska Pansittivorakul

This film is imagined as the director’s suicide note—a record of anxieties, fears, desires and final memories. Some of these memories, trivial and never preserved…

18 Oct / 19:15 / 94’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
21 Oct / 14:00 / 94’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/memoirs-of-a-badger/

Memoirs of a Badger

Mémoires d’un blaireau
Isabelle Prim

Abbé Breuil (1877-1961), a renowned expert who revealed prehistoric art to the world, receives a call from the future. Invited by astronauts awaiting their mission,…

17 Oct / 19:00 / 71’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
22 Oct / 11:00 / 71’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/memories-of-a-journey-through-alto-rio-negro/

Memories of a Journey Through Alto Rio Negro

Memórias de Uma Viagem pelo Alto Rio Negro
Kasia Mich, Dani Correia

Navigating the Negro, Tiquié, and Uaupés rivers, elders of the Ye’pã Mahsã people travel through places where ancestral histories endure. The film forms a sensory…

17 Oct / 21:30 / 72’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
24 Oct / 14:00 / 72’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/noli-me-tangere/

Noli me tangere

Ghassan Salhab

If the sun drowns in a sea of mist / And a wave of darkness covers the world / And sight vanishes from every eye…

19 Oct / 19:00 / 112’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
23 Oct / 16:15 / 112’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/saturn-or-a-brief-treatise-on-melancholy/

Saturn or a Brief Treatise on Melancholy

Saturno o pequeño tratado de la melancolía
Mariano Donoso Makowski

In Lagunas del Rosario, in the arid lands of Mendoza, Rubén Díaz—artisan, Malvinas War veteran, and healer known as Caballo Loco (Crazy Horse)—each winter solstice…

18 Oct / 22:00 / 87’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
19 Oct / 14:00 / 87’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
https://doclisboa.org/en/filmes/smarty/

Smarty

Umnitsa
Sergey Kolosovski, Nikita Lavretski

Exiled director Nikita Lavretski (played by Belarusian director Sergey Kolosovski) strives to reunite with his wife across European borders. Reminiscing about the home he had…

Sections Festival

Portuguese Competition

Portuguese Competition

Opening Session

Opening Session

From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

Lino Brocka Retrospective

Lino Brocka Retrospective

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