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culturgest
cinema são jorge
cinemateca
portuguesa
17th international
film festival
cinema ideal
PRESS KIT
www.doclisboa.orgINDEX
Doclisboa ‘19 in Numbers 3
About the festival and Apordoc 5
Programme 7
Opening and Closing Sessions 8
International Competition 9
Portuguese Competition 11
New Visions 12
Heart Beat 18
From the Earth to the Moon 21
Retrospective Jocelyne Saab 24
Retrospective Rise and Fall of the Wall 29
- The Cinema of East Germany
Cinema of Urgency 35
Green Years 36
Doc Alliance 39
Education Project 40
Nebulae Network 44
Parallel Activities 56
Parties DOC HEART BEAT 59
Jury and Awards 61
Guests 70
Partners 82
Contacts 87DOCLISBOA ‘19 IN NUMBERS 303 FILMS 48 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED 39 WORLD PREMIERES 45 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES 9 EUROPEAN PREMIERES 44 PORTUGUESE FILMS NUMBER OF FILMS BY SECTION: International Competition 14 Portuguese Competition 11 New Visions 63 Heart Beat 33 From the Earth to the Moon 32 Retrospective Jocelyne Saab 42 Retrospective Rise and Fall of the Wall - The Cinema of East Germany 50 Cinema of Urgency 2 Green Years 33 Doc Alliance 4 Education Project 13
NUMBER OF PREMIERES PER SECTION: International Competition 4 World, 7 International, 1 European e 1 Portuguese Portuguese Competition 7 World e 4 Portuguese New Vision 6 World, 6 International, 5 European e 34 Portuguese Heart Beat 5 World, 4 International, 1 European e 16 Portuguese From the Earth to the Moon 20 Portuguese, 5 World e 3 International Retrospective Jocelyne Saab 1 World, 14 International e 26 Portuguese Cinema of Urgency 1 European Green Years 12 World, 9 International, 1 European e 8 Portuguese Doc Alliance 3 Portuguese NUMBER OF COUNTRIES PER SECTION: International Competition 11 Portuguese Competition 7 New Visions 19 Heart Beat 16 From the Earth to the Moon 14 Retrospective Jocelyne Saab 7 Retrospective Rise and Fall of the Wall - The Cinema of East Germany 3 Cinema of Urgency 3 Green Years 16 Doc Alliance 6 Education Project 8
DOCLISBOA'19
I’m here knocking on the wooden coffee table for luck but at the end of the day it’s only plastic pre-
tending to be beechwood. It’s fine because this magic works all the same - Pedro Fortes
This edition of Doclisboa is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague Pedro Fortes, it’s with his evo-
cation that we begin. This phrase hovered over our air for all these months since his death. In a way, it
speaks of this limbo we live in, between the fall in the present and the sudden flight we allow ourselves to
make, by insisting in being here: the magic works all the same because the magic is the result of invisible
and uncontrollable links that humans create between themselves. It is in this field that cinema is there for
us, and it is by calling out this magic that we programme this festival.
This year Doclisboa will continue to affirm itself as a community in-between different times, territories
and ways of being, summoning the films and the people both in a sense of diving into - watching and think-
ing what we are still to learn to watch and think, as well as in a sense of enlarged sharing - watching and
thinking the world collectively, seeking inspiration in each other and coming up with unexpected ways in
how to be with each other too. If cinema is the grassroot of arts, it is in this way - it is in the world and in
the movement of all things.
Jocelyne Saab, whose integral retrospective we present, has made a pathway precisely defined by the
crossings between the urgency (returning to Lebanon as a war reporter), the amazement of the record-
ed reality and the construction of a rare filmic gestuality: cinema is not a court where the world is sen-
tenced, its purpose is not that of determining things from our moral judgement, but rather a sensible
transmission between us and things, through which experiences are found, interweaved and the resis-
tance is done in that multiple space between imagination and attention.
Cinema, this magic that works all the same and albeit, it is also a way of caring: caring for others, caring
for the infinitely far away, again in that exercise of the diving and the sharing. It’s a cinema in which the
living and the dead have contact with others in the same room and bring us new images for the worlds
yet to come. That is why we have programmed the retrospective “Rise and Fall of the Wall - The Cinema
of East Germany”. 30 years following the fall of the Berlin wall, in a time where walls (physical, spiritual,
5 press kit doclisboa'19linguistic and discursive, sensitive) thrive, we look at the films that have been made in that territory (a
territory can be determined not just geographically, but also temporally), and seek understanding and
opening critical plans simultaneously. We live in a complex and often times violent Europe, where we are
confronted with not only a history of colonialisms, but also cynical forms of neocolonialism, and with the
fear that the history plummets us into a type of collective black hole. However, let’s go back to our dear
Pedro Fortes: even when we find out that the table is made of plastic, the magic works - the magic is
nothing more than the projection of a desire, and if we revisit this cinema today it is because we believe
that Europe is in our hands.
Cíntia Gil
Doclisboa Director
6 press kit doclisboa'19PROGRAMME
The programme of Doclisboa counts with 303 films, this year, from 48 different countries.
There’s 39 world premieres (four in the International Competition, seven in the Portuguese Com-
petition, six in New Visions, five in Heart Beat, five in From the Earth to the Moon and twelve in
Green Years), 45 international premieres (seven in the International Competition, six in New Vi-
sions, four in Heart Beat, three in From the Earth to the Moon, fourteen in Retrospective Joce-
lyne Saab, nine in Green Years), 9 european premieres (one in the International Competition, five
in New Visions, one in Heart Beat, one in Cinema of Urgency and one in Green Years), 116 portu-
guese premieres (one in the opening session, one in the closing session, one in the International
Competition, four in the Portuguese Competition, 35 in New Visions, 16 in Heart Beat, 20 in From
the Earth to the Moon, 26 in Retrospective Jocelyne Saab, eight in Green Years and three in Doc
Alliance). Portugal collects 44 films, being that 11 will be in competition.
7 press kit doclisboa'19Opening and Closing Sessions
OPENING SESSION
Endless Nigh, Eloy Enciso, Spain, 2019, 90’ Portuguese Premiere
Synopsis
A few years after the Civil War was over, Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside.
Through casual conversations along his trip, he discovers how war and the new regime have trans-
formed the relationships among people. Once at home, he is greeted with concern by the victorious, but
also by the defeated ones, who see in Anxo the challenge to start a journey to the past and their si-
lenced memories. Excerpts from plays, memoirs and letters from the Franco regime serve as inspiration
for Longa noite, a film exploring the social and political foundations of fascism.
CLOSING SESSIONS
Technoboss, João Nicolau, Portugal, France, 2019, 112’ Portuguese Premiere
Sinopse
Luís Rovisco, divorced and well into his sixties, is hoping to retire soon from his job as the commercial
director of SegurVale – Integrated Systems of Access Control. Until that happens, he can more often
be found behind the wheel of his car, singing about what he sees along the way. His years of experience
allow him to gracefully avoid the traps that technology, his co-workers and a mysteriously absent boss
keep setting on his path. Not even the death of Napoleão (a cat), the constant pain on his knee or a fam-
ily altercation overpower him. But before Lucinda, the receptionist at Almadrava Hotel, he finds himself
singing to a different tune.
8 press kit doclisboa'19International Competition
14 films originating from 11 different territories, all of which with a distinct and generous look at
the world and film, and none of which (merely) what it seems to be. Formal and aesthetical diver-
sity coupled with a stance on the world we share.
L’ULTIMU SOGNU - Last dream in Petra Bianca / WORLD PREMIERE
Lisa Reboulleau / France / 2019 / 33’
Journey Through a Body / Camille Degeye / France / 2019 / 33’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Spit on the Broom / Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich / USA / 2019 / 12’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
中孚 61. The Inner Truth / Sofia Brito / Argentina / 2019 / 65’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
- DEBUT
Tribute to Judas / Manel Raga-Raga / Spain / 2019 / 26’ WORLD PREMIERE
In Ashes / Camila Rodriguez Triana / France, Colombia / 2019 / 63’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Sun Inside / Jo Serfaty / Brazil / 2019 / 96’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream / Frank Beauvais / France / 2019 / 76’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Noli Me Tangere / Christophe Bisson / France / 2019 / 81’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
I’m not Pilatus / Welket Bungué / Portugal / 2019 / 11’
Santikhiri Sonata / Thunska Pansittivorakul / Thailand, Germany / 2019 / 76’ WORLD PREMIERE
9 press kit doclisboa'19Under-ground / Wook Steven Heo / South Korea / 2019 / 72’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A New Environment: Heinrich Klotz on Architecture and New Media / WORLD PREMIERE
Christian Haardt / Germany / 2019 / 80’
Tinnitus / Daniil Zinchenko / Rússia / 2019 / 90’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
10 press kit doclisboa'19Portuguese Competition
11 films that are gestures of freedom, avoiding any categorisation.
From the intimate to the cosmic, from poetry to witchcraft, from revolution to love.
Ghosts: Long Way Home / Tiago Siopa / Portugal / 2019 / 116’ WORLD PREMIERE
Breeding Ground / Pedro Filipe Marques / Portugal / 2019 / 83’ WORLD PREMIERE
history with no capital letter / Saguenail / Portugal / 2019 / 104’ WORLD PREMIERE
A Pleasure, Comrades! / José Filipe Costa / Portugal / 2019 / 106’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? / Diana Vidrascu / France, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Portugal, Romania / 2019 / 21’
Reynard / Leonor Noivo / Portugal / 2019 / 40’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Lost Three Make One Found / Atsushi Kuwayama / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Portugal, Japan, Belgium, Hungary / 2019 / 26’
Unskinned / Inês Gil / Portugal / 2019 / 76’ WORLD PREMIERE
Bird's Nest / Miguel de Jesus / Portugal / 2019 / 85’ WORLD PREMIERE
Outside the oranges are blooming / Nevena Desivojevic / Portugal, WORLD PREMIERE
Serbia / 2019 / 20’
War Diaries / Luís Brás / Portugal / 2019 / 55’ WORLD PREMIERE
11 press kit doclisboa'19New Visions
We propose to discuss borders and limits with films from different times that question the contempo-
rary nature of cinema. Our invited directors are Ghassan Salhab and Sofia Bohdanowicz. We present
a tribute to Barbara Hammer by some of her closest friends, and the latest films by Alain Cavalier and
James Benning. Aside from theme programmes, there are unique films by young directors: Demons,
by Daniel Hui, This Film Is About Me, by Alexis Delgado BúGDRlo, or the splendid When the Persim-
mons Grew, by Hilal Baydarov. Rita Azevedo Gomes and Pierre Léon partner up and bring us Danses
macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies. We also summon the voice of Antonin Artaud from his radio
performance in 1947.
TRIBUTE TO BARBARA HAMMER
I Was/I Am / Barbara Hammer / USA / 1973 / 6’
Generations / Barbara Hammer, Joey Carducci / USA / 2010 / 15’
A Month of Single Frames / Lynne Sachs (Made with and EUROPEAN PREMIERE
for Barbara Hammer) / USA / 2019 / 15’
So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All / Mark Street com Barbara Hammer / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
USA / 2019 / 12’
Vever (for Barbara) / Deborah Stratman / Guatemala, USA / 2019 / 12’
Multiple Orgasm / Barbara Hammer / USA / 1976 / 6’
12 press kit doclisboa'19INVITED DIRECTOR GHASSAN SALHAB
An Open Rose / WaGDR / Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2019 / 72’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Chinese Ink / Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2016 / 54’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Tango of Yearning / Mohamed Soueid / Lebanon / 1998 / 72’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
INVITED DIRECTOR SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ
A Prayer / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2013 / 7’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
An Evening / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2013 / 19’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Another Prayer / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2013 / 6’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Never Eat Alone / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2016 / 68’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2016 / 8’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Maison du bonheur / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2017 / 62’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Roy Thompson / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2018 / 3’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Where / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2018 / 4’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The Soft Space / Sofia Bohdanowicz, Melanie Scheiner / Canada / 2018 / 4’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Veslemøy’s Song / Sofia Bohdanowicz / Canada / 2018 / 8’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
MS Slavic 7 / Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell / Canada / 2019 / 64’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
13 press kit doclisboa'19BODY POLITICS AND MENTAL TERRITORY
Displacement / Bahar Samadi / Iran / 2015 / 14’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
A Passage / Rouzbeh Akhbari / Armenia, Canada / 2019 / 17’ WORLD PREMIERE
Rose Garden / Mehraneh Atashi / Canada, Germany / 2011 / 9’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
I have Sinned a Rapturous Sin / Maryam Tafakory / Iran, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
United Kingdom / 2018 / 8’
Boundless Game / Shahrzad Malekian / Iran / 2015 / 13’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Sarotis; Wearable Futures / Ava Aghakouch-
ak, Maria Paneta and Tong Zhao / United Kingdom / 2016 / 2’
Sovar / Ava Aghakouchak / United Kingdom / 2019 / 3’ WORLD PREMIERE
Proliferation / Jinoos Taghizadeh / Iran / 2013 / 4’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Elephant / Mona Kakanj / Germany / 2014 / 4’ INTERNATIONALPREMIERE
Ultima Ratio Mountain of the Sun / Bahar Noorizadeh / Canada, Lebanon / 2017 / 13’
Me, Myself and A.I.I.I. / Abbas Zahedi / United Kingdom / 2017 / 5’ WORLD PREMIERE
PORTRAITS OF PAIN: UNFRAMING DESIRE
Livestock / Derek Jenkins / Canada, USA / 2019 / 12’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Six Portraits of Pain / Teresa Villaverde / Portugal / 2019 / 26’
Hard as Opal / Dani Leventhal ReStack, Jared Buckhiester / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
USA / 2015 / 30’
14 press kit doclisboa'19A Boy Needs a Friend / Steve Reinke / Canada, USA / 2015 / 22’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Come Coyote / Dani Leventhal ReStack / USA / 2019 / 8’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
To End God's Judgement / Antonin Artaud / France / 1947 / 12’
Strangely Ordinary This Devotion / Dani Leventhal ReStack, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Sheilah Wilson ReStack / USA / 2017 / 27’
Lonely Rivers / Mauro Herce / France, Spain / 2019 / 28’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
This Film is About Me / Alexis Delgado / Spain / 2019 / 62’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
FUTURE EMBODIED
AGENDA 1958 (with notes from 1960 and 65) / Pilar Palomero / WORLD PREMIERE
Spain / 2019 / 19’
A Moon for My Father / Mania Akbari, Douglas White / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Iran, United Kingdom / 2019 / 74’
This Action Lies / James N. Kienitz Wilkins / USA / 2018 / 32’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Manifiest / Alejandro Rath / Argentina / 2019 / 61’ WORLD PREMIERE
Divinations / Sarah Vanagt / Belgium / 2019 / 35’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The Hottest August / Brett Story / USA, Canada / 2019 / 96’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
15 press kit doclisboa'19Black Sun / Maureen Fazendeiro / Portugal, France / 2019 / 8’
vulture / Philip Hoffman / Canada / 2019 / 57’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
NATURAL HISTORY
Naturales Historiae
/ Pauline Julier / Switzerland / 2019 / 56’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
History of the Revolution / Maxime Martinot / France / 2019 / 30’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
TWO TIMES
Naked Hearts / Édouard Luntz / France / 1966 / 90’
Young and Alive / Matthieu Bareyre / France / 2018 / 90’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
SIX PORTRAITS XL
6. Léon / Alain Cavalier / France / 2017 / 52’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
6 Portraits XL / Alain Cavalier / France / 2017 / 312’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Rushing Green with Horses / Ute Aurand / Germany / 2019 / 82’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Demons / Daniel Hui / Singapor / 2018 / 84’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
TELEMUNDO / James Benning / USA / 2018 / 83’ WORLD PREMIERE
16 press kit doclisboa'19Serpentarius / Carlos Conceição / Angola, Portugal / 2019 / 83’
Years of Construction / Heinz Emigholz / Germany / 2019 / 93’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Living and Knowing You’re Alive / Alain Cavalier / France / 2019 / 82’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
When The Persimmons Grew / Hilal Baydarov / Azerbaijan, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Austria / 2019 / 119’
Wang Bing, tendre cinéaste du chaos chinois / Dominique Auvray INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
/ France / 2019 / 60’
Danses macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies / Pierre Léon, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Rita Azevedo Gomes, Jean-Louis Schefer / France, Portugal, Switzerland
/ 2019 / 110’
17 press kit doclisboa'19HEART BEAT
Who are rockers Zé Pedro and Daniel Darc? Why is the bass player for the Rolling Stones the archivist
of the group? What is the story of the Cavern Club where the Beatles started? Who is the projection-
ist friend of Abel Ferrara? What did film critic Pauline Kael write? What kind of film feminist activism
invented Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig? Discover Marie Losier portrait of musician Felix
Kubin. Meet Chilean queer activist and visual artist Lemebel. Remember Lil Peep, the prince of the
emo trap scene. How did Miloš Forman become a Hollywood acclaimed director? Listen to documen-
tary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, to the story of one of the contributors to the birth of Bossa Nova,
Dorival Caymmi, and to the words of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner. Move your bodies with choreogra-
phers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel.
EXCHANGING WORDS WITH COUTINHO
A Treat of Coutinho / Josafá Veloso / Brazil / 2019 / 75’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Last Conversations / Eduardo Coutinho / Brazil / 2015 / 87’
Twenty Years Later / Eduardo Coutinho / Brazil / 1984 / 119’
ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
Rosas danst Rosas / Stefaan Decostere / Belgium / 1983 / 26’
Mitten / Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes / Belgium / 2019 / 53’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU IN THE END
Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston / Gabriel Sunday / USA / 2015 / 17’
18 press kit doclisboa'19The Angel and Daniel Johnston - Live at the Union Chapel / Antony Crofts / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
United Kingdom / 2008 / 65’
Talking About Trees / Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Germany, Chade, Qatar / 2019 / ‘93
What she said: the Art of Pauline Kael / Rob Garver / USA / 2019 / 96’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Delphine and Carole / Callisto McNulty / France, Switzerland / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2019 / 71’
Forman vs. Forman / Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Czech Republic, France / 2019 / 78’
Lemebel / Joanna Reposi Garibaldi / Chile, Colombia / 2019 / 97’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Dorival Caymmi - The Sounds of Life / Daniela Broitman / Brazil INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
/ 2019 / 92’
The Projectionist / Abel Ferrara / USA / 2019 / 81’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Quiet One / Oliver Murray / United Kingdom / 2019 / 98’ EUROPEAN PREMIERE
The Cavern Club: the Beat Goes On / Christian Francis-Davies, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Jon Keats / United Kingdom / 2019 / 69’
The Bridge / Paulo Raposo / Portugal / 2019 / 23’ WORLD PREMIERE
Felix in Wonderland / Marie Losier / France, Germany / 2019 / 51’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Oh les filles! / François Armanet / France / 2019 / 80’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
YesteGDRy Mitte Tomorrow / Peter Zach / Germany / 1995 / 85’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
19 press kit doclisboa'19The Sound of Masks / Sara Gouveia / Portugal, África do Sul / 2018 / 71’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Sophia, in her own words / Manuel Mozos / Portugal / 2019 / 56’ WORLD PREMIERE
Retrospective / Jérôme Bel / France / 2019 / 82’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Zé Pedro Rock ‘n’ Roll / Diogo Varela Silva / Portugal / 2019 / 110’ WORLD PREMIERE
Daniel Darc, Pieces of My Life / Marc Dufaud, Thierry Villeneuve / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
France / 2019 / 100’
ZONA / Clayton Vomero / United Kingdom / 2018 / 62’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Everybody’s Everything / Sebastian Jones, Ramez Silyan / United Kingdom, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
USA / 2019 / 116’
Don’t Look Back / D.A. Pennebaker / USA, United Kingdom / 1967 / 95’
Casa Conveniente / Barbara Balestas Kazazian / France / 2019 / 13’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Love Essay / Zé G. Pires / Portugal / 2019 / 66’ WORLD PREMIERE
Chico: Artista Brazileiro / Miguel Faria Jr. / Brazil / 2015 / 115’
CINEMATIC PERFORMANCE
Dark Mysteries / Pedro Lino / Portugal / 2019 / 13’ WORLD PREMIERE
O Intendente é um lugar psicológico / Tiago Pereira / Portugal / 2019 / 58’
20 press kit doclisboa'19From the Earth to the Moon
Several authors who have been with us return with new films: Werner Herzog, Lech Kowalski, Te-
resa Villaverde, Éric Baudelaire, Sébastien Lifschitz. Luísa Homem introduces us to the universe of
Suzanne Daveau. Thomas Heise presents a family investigation intersecting the recent history of
Germany and Europe. Camilo de Sousa and Isabel Noronha share memories from post-independence
Mozambique that are paramount to think about our recent history. Pierre-Marie Goulet guides us
through the crossovers between Portuguese and Muslim cultures. Films from so many territories
that present us with past, present and future.
DIRECTORS IN FOCUS: KEVIN JEROME EVERSON, CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD
Sugarcoated Arsenic / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / 2013 / 21’
How Can I Ever Be Late / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / 2017 / 5’
We Demand / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / 2016 /11’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Fastest Man in the State / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
/ USA / 2017 / 10’
70kg / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / 2017 / 3’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Black Bus Stop / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2019 / 10’
Hampton / Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold / USA / 2019 / 7’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
21 press kit doclisboa'19DECOLONIZING MEMORY
A Story from Africa / Billy Woodberry / Portugal / 2019 / 33’
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum / Matthias De Groof / Belgium / 2019 / 70’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Heimat is a Space in Time / Thomas Heise / Germany, Austria / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2019 / 219’
Landless / Camila Freitas / Brazil / 2019 / 112’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Brink / Alison Klayman / USA / 2019 / 92’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Movements of a Nearby Mountain / Sebastian Brameshuber / Austria, PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
France / 2019 / 86’
Karelia: International with Monument / Andres Duque / Spain / 2018 / 91’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin / Werner Herzog / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
United Kingdom / 2019 / 89’
Family Romance, LLC / Werner Herzog / USA / 2019 / 89’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Blow It to Bits / Lech Kowalski / France / 2019 / 109’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Last Dream / Alberto Álvares / Brazil / 2019 / 61’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Brexit Behind Closed Doors / Lode Desmet / Belgium, United Kingdom / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2019 / 120’
22 press kit doclisboa'19Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde? / Teresa Villaverde / France, Portugal / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2019 / 10’
On Air / Manno Lanssens / Belgium, Holanda / 2018 / 81’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Until the Sun Dies / Claudio Carbone / Portugal / 2019 / 76’ WORLD PREMIERE
Un film dramatique / Éric Baudelaire / France / 2019 / 114’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
143 sahara street / Hassen Ferhani / Argelia, France, Qatar / 2019 / 104’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Last Port - Beyond the Bridge / Pierre-Marie Goulet / Portugal / 2019 / 90’ WORLD PREMIERE
Adolescentes / Sébastien Lifschitz / France / 2019 / 135’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
La Vida en Común / Ezequiel Yanco / Argentina, France / 2019 / 70’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Judenrein / Daniel Blaufuks / Portugal / 2019 / 11’ WORLD PREMIERE
Status and Terrain / Ute Adamczewski / Germany / 2019 / 120’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Suzanne Daveau / Luisa Homem / Portugal / 2019 / 115’ WORLD PREMIERE
We Dreamed of a Country / Camilo de Sousa, Isabel de Noronha / Portugal / WORLD PREMIERE
2019 / 73’
Portraits of Identification / Anita Leandro / Brazil / 2014 / 73’
23 press kit doclisboa'19Jocelyne Saab
Retrospective
One can not put a label on Jocelyne Saab as a person or on her film work. She starts her career as a jour-
nalist and war reporter, and she directs her first feature-length documentary, Lebanon in a Whirlwind,
in 1975. Lebanon, where Jocelyne Saab was born (Beirut, 1948), is the centre from which unfolds a cin-
ematic map comprising roughly thirty documentary films, (always surprising) “fiction films”, portraits
and pictures, installations and exhibitions. A cinematic map that becomes a geographic one, oriented
toward the Mediterranean, but also toward East, toward the Middle East, until it reaches the Far East,
without forgetting the Asian location of the cosmopolitan and open Lebanon that the civil war tried to
close by multiplying walls.
A LEADER IS BORN: MUAMMAR GADDAFI
Interview With Gaddafi / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 5’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Kadhafi, The Green March / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 28’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Kadhafi / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 60’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
MIDDLE EAST REPORT 1
Middle East: Israel / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 26’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
La Guerre d’Octobre / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 8’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Middle East: Egypt / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 8’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
24 press kit doclisboa'19War in Orient: Egypt / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 8’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Golan, The Frontline / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1974 / 10’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Iraq: War in Kurdistan / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1974 / 16’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
MIDDLE EAST REPORT 2
Palestinian Women / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1974 / 16’ WORLD PREMIERE
Les Nouveaux croisés d’Orient / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1975 / 10’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
South Lebanon, The Story of a Village Under Siege / Jocelyne Saab / France / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
1976 / 12’
Children of War / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1976 / 12’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Beirut, never again / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1976 / 35’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Beirut, my city / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1982 / 30’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
LEBANON IN A WHIRLWIND
Lebanon in a Whirlwind / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1975 / 75’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
MY NAME IS JOCELYNE SAAB OR PALESTINE, DÉFENSE D’ENTRER
My Name is Mei Shigenobu / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 2018 / 6’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Palestinians Keep Fighting / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1973 / 10’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
25 press kit doclisboa'19Le Front du refus / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1975 / 12’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Ship of Exile / France, Lebanon / 1982 / 12’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Lebanon: state of shock / Jocelyne Saab / France, Lebanon / 1982 / 6’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
One Dollar a Day / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 2016 / 6’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Imaginary Postcards / Jocelyne Saab / Turkey / 2016 / 6’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
LETTERS FROM UTOPIA
Letter from Beirut / Jocelyne Saab / France, Lebanon / 1978 / 50’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Iran, Utopia in the Making / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1980 / 57’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
SAHARA IS NOT FOR SALE
Sahara Is Not For Sale / Jocelyne Saab / France, Argelia, Marocco / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
1973 / 93’
A SUSPENDED CITY
Lebanese Hostages in Their City / Jocelyne Saab / France, Lebanon / 1982 / 6’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A Suspended Life / Jocelyne Saab / France, Lebanon / 1985 / 90’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
26 press kit doclisboa'19WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
Egypt, The City of the Deaths / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1977 / 38’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Architect of Luxor / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1986 / 18’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Les Fantômes d’Alexandrie / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1986 / 18’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
La Croix des Pharaons / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1986 / 11’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Allah’s Love / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1986 / 17’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
ONCE UPON A TIME BEIRUT
Once upon a Time Beirut / Jocelyne Saab / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Lebanon, France / 1994 / 101’
DUNIA
Dunia / Jocelyne Saab / Egypt, France, Lebanon / 2005 / 112’
27 press kit doclisboa'19LIVES THAT MATTER
Pour quelques vies / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon / 1976 / 17’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
La Tueuse / Jocelyne Saab / France, 1988 / 10’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
The Lady of Saigon / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon, Vietname, France / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
1998 / 62’
WHAT’S GOING ON?
What’s Going On? / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon, France, Costa Rica / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2009 / 80’
CROSSING THE GENRES
Belly Dancers / Jocelyne Saab / Lebanon, France / 1989 / 26’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Café du genre / Jocelyne Saab / France / 2013 / 27’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Fécondation in video / Jocelyne Saab / France / 1991 / 26’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
28 press kit doclisboa'19Retrospective Rise and Fall
of the Wall – The Cinema
of East Germany
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this retrospective will pres-
ent films produced between 1946 and 1991, mostly by the East German state film studio, DEFA. This
programme will bear witness to the diversity and abundance of talented women and men, filmmakers,
depicting in different cinematic languages, free or censured, in propaganda and forbidden films, peo-
ple living in a wounded country in a wounded territory. These documentaries, accompanied by some
fiction films, needed to be rediscovered and re-evaluated from a current perspective.
RECONSTRUCTION
Rebuilding Berlin / Kurt Maetzig / GDR / 1946 / 22’
Somewhere in Berlin / Gerhard Lamprecht / GDR / 1946 / 80’
WHY BUILD A WALL?
Look at this City / Karl Gass / GDR / 1962 / 85’
29 press kit doclisboa'19HAIL TO THE GDR!
Unity SPD-KPD / Kurt Maetzig / Germany (Berlim Oriental) / 1946 / 20’
We Are Building Our Gate to the World / Heinz Reusch / GDR / 1958 / 27’
Wer die Erde liebt / Uwe Belz, Jürgen Böttcher, Joachim Hellwig, Harry Hornig / GDR / 1973 / 72’
HAIL TO WORK!
Steel / Joop Huisken / GDR / 1950 / 13’
The Secretary / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1967 / 29’
The Carbide Factory / Heinz Brinkmann / GDR / 1988 / 25’
Leisure / Karl Gass / GDR / 1964 / 39’
HAIL TO WORKERS!
Turbine I / Joop Huisken / GDR / 1953 / 25’
Furnace Builders / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1962 / 15’
Laundresses / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1972 / 23’
Shunters / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1984 / 22’
30 press kit doclisboa'19POWERFUL WOMEN?
She / Gitta Nickel / GDR / 1970 / 30’
Who's Afraid Of The Bogeyman / Helke Misselwitz / GDR / 1989 / 52’
BORN IN 1945: THE GOLZOW KIDS
Anmut sparet nicht noch Mühe / Winfried Junge / GDR / 1979 / 105’
THE WITTSTOCK GIRLS
Wittstock Girls / Volker Koepp / GDR / 1975 / 20’
Back in Wittstock / Wolfgang Geier, Volker Koepp / GDR / 1976 / 22’
Wittstock III / Volker Koepp / GDR / 1978 / 32’
Living and Weaving / Volker Koepp / GDR / 1981 / 28’
PORTRAITS
Martha / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1978 / 56’
Alfred / Andreas Voigt / GDR / 1986 / 39’
HOW WONDERFUL IS OUR YOUTH! 1
Barefoot and without a hat / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1964 / 26’
Being 18 is not Enough / Kurt Tetzlaff / GDR / 1964 / 22’
31 press kit doclisboa'19The Case of H. and Eight Others / Richard Cohn-Vossen / GDR / 1972 / 29’
Yell Once a Week / Günter JoGDRn / GDR / 1982 / 17’
HOW WONDERFUL IS OUR YOUTH! 2
Paule in Concert / Lew Hohmann / Germany de Leste / 1983 / 33’
First Love / Konrad Weiß / GDR / 1984 / 65’
COPS AND ROBBERS
Why Make a Film About People Like Them? / Thomas Heise / GDR / 1980 / 36’
People’s Police Force / Thomas Heise / GDR / 1985 / 58’
ORDINARY LIFE
Das Haus / Thomas Heise / GDR / 1984 / 56’
Snack Bar Special / Thomas Heise / GDR / 1990 / 27’
THE MUSIC SCENE
whisper & SHOUT / Dieter Schumann / GDR / 1988 / 120’
32 press kit doclisboa'19EVERY WOMAN
After Winter Comes Spring / Helke Misselwitz / GDR / 1988 / 112’
THE MARCH BRANDENBURG TRILOGY, PARTS 1 AND 2
March Brandenburg Bricks / Volker Koepp / GDR / 1989 / 35’
March Brandenburg Heath, Märkischer Sand / Volker Koepp / GDR / 1990 / 53’
THE MARCH BRANDENBURG TRILOGY, PART 3
Märkische Gesellschaft Inc. / Volker Koepp / Germany / 1991 / 73’
THE WALL FALLS
Kehraus / Gerd Kroske / GDR / 1990 / 30’
Leipzig in the Fall / Gerd Kroske, Andreas Voigt / GDR / 1989 / 54’
THE WALL HAS FALLEN
Last Year Titanic / Andreas Voigt / GDR, Germany / 1991 / 101’
BERLIN STORIES 1
Construction Site X / Gerhard Klein / GDR / 1950 / 12’
Berlin - Schönhauser Corner / Gerhard Klein / GDR / 1957 / 82’
33 press kit doclisboa'19BERLIN STORIES 2
Today / Joachim Hadaschik / GDR / 1966 / 29’
Berlin Around the Corner / Gerhard Klein / GDR / 1965-1990 / 85’
KADDISH, A PRAYER TO THE DEAD
Death Camp Sachsenhausen / Richard Brandt / GDR / 1946 / 40’
Night and Fog / Alain Resnais / France / 1956 / 32’
Memento / Karlheinz Mund / GDR / 1966 / 16’
THE STASI
The Black Box / Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe / GDR / 1992 / 100’
THE IRON AGE
Iron Age / Thomas Heise / Germany / 1991 / 87’
34 press kit doclisboa'19CINEMA
OF URGENCY
O Que Vai Acontecer Aqui? / Colectivo Left Hand Rotation / Portugal, Spain / 2019 / 83’
A nossa bandeira jamais será vermelha / Pablo López Guelli / Brazil / EUROPEAN PREMIERE
2019 / 70’
35 press kit doclisboa'19GREEN YEARS
The opening film of the Green Years section this year is Thirty, by Simona Kostova, produced by the
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), which is also the invited school—we’ll screen films
covering 50 years of its existence. As of this edition, the competitive component of Green Years opens
up to European productions, thus presenting the views of new directors on a continent scale.
Opening Session Green Years
Thirty / Simona Kostova / Germany / 2019 / 114’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
GREEN YEARS
Simulacrum / Duarte Maltez / Portugal / 2019 / 8’ WORLD PREMIERE
Beach House / Teresa Folhadela / Portugal / 2019 / 21’ WORLD PREMIERE
They don’t represent us / Irene Muñoz Martin / Switzerland / 2019 / 40’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A Family Tale / Natalia Ciepiel / Dinamarca / 2018 / 37’ WORLD PREMIERE
Labyrinth / Oktay Namazov / Azerbaijan, Belgium, Hungria, WORLD PREMIERE
Portugal / 2019 / 20’
Notes from the Neighbourhood / Laura Engelhardt / EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Germany / 2018 / 26’
Northern Malady / Gerrit Kuge / Germany / 2018 / 28’ WORLD PREMIERE
36 press kit doclisboa'19Rio Torto / Mário Veloso / Portugal / 2019 / 16’ WORLD PREMIERE
There’s Margin / Filipe Oliveira / Portugal / 2019 / 18’ WORLD PREMIERE
Rex Will Sail In / Josip Lukic / Croácia / 2019 / 36’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
The War Of Cents / Nadér S. Ayach / France, Tunísia / 2019 / 38’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Recorded Dreams #1 / Jonathan Ospina / Switzerland / 2019 / 13’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Everything Near Becomes Distant / Francisco Bouzas / Argentina, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Spain / 2019 / 13’
To Francisco / Rodrigo Pedro / Portugal / 2019 / 15’ WORLD PREMIERE
The Good Breast and the Bad Breast / Yan Tomaszewski / France / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
2019 / 22’
My American Father / Justine Abitbol / France / 2018 / 38’ WORLD PREMIERE
Frozen in Time / Simona Viackute / Lituânia, United Kingdom / 2018 / 7’ WORLD PREMIERE
When Your First Son Gets Up To No Good / Jacob Oduwole / Portugal / WORLD PREMIERE
2019 / 14’
And we’ll be happy again / Krzysztof Wołżański / Polónia / 2019 / 22’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A tiny country / Pauline Laplace / France / 2019 / 58’ WORLD PREMIERE
37 press kit doclisboa'19Green Years - Special Sessions Invited School DFFB
Chaos / Samuel Auer / Germany / 2019 / 5’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Flat Desires / Senem Göcmen / Germany / 2017 / 5’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Asphalt flowers / Borbala Nagy / Germany / 2017 / 19’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Yesterday my Friend bought a Bike / Ramon Zürcher / Germany / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
2010 / 10’
I stayed in Berlin all summer / Angela Schanelec / Germany / 1993 / 50’
Subjectitude / Helke Sander / Germany / 1966 / 5’
Layover / Julia Milz / Germany / 2017 / 15’
What We Were / Melanie Wälde, Hanna Martin / Germany / 2019 / 15’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Absinth / Ewa Wikiel / Germany / 2016 / 16’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Linger on Some Pale Blue Dot / Alexandre Koberidze / Israel, Germany / PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
2018 / 29’
Color Test: The Red Flag / Gerd Conrad / Germany / 1968 / 12’
Rescue the Fire / Jasco Viefhues / Germany / 2019 / 83’ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
38 press kit doclisboa'19DOC ALLIANCE
Odyssey / Sabine Groenewegen / Holanda, Belgium, France, Portugal / 2018 / 63’
Behind our eyes / Anton Bialas / France / 2018 / 46’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
Shelter: Farewell to Eden / Enrico Masi / Italy, France / 2019 / 81’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
That Which Does Not Kill / Alexe Poukine / Belgium, France / 2019 / 85’ PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
39 press kit doclisboa'19EDUCATION PROJECT
DOC ESCOLAS
14 FILM SESSIONS FOR SCHOOLS
We pay a visit to the former East Germany through this year’s theme retrospec-
tive, and we reflect upon the conflicts of the Sahara Desert from the perspective
of Jocelyne Saab. We discover the literary work of Sophia de Mello Breyner, and we
take a peek at the latest film by Éric Baudelaire, made by him and the children with
whom he worked for 5 years. Aside from these and other propositions from our
regular programme, we put forward two special screenings for the younger ones
that question the notion of frontier.
DOCS 4 KIDS
WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNGSTERS AGED 4 TO 15
We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a series of
workshops addressing the notion of border. In 1989, according to a research by
the University of Quebec, there were 16 walls dividing populations and establishing
frontiers all over the world. There are currently 65 walls already built and many
others nearly finished. What is a wall for anyway?
Docs 4 Kids weekend workshops
Length: 2hrs (with the exception of the editing workshop – 3hrs)
Film soundtracking workshop
for children aged 4 – 7 (with an adult)
Based on a short animation, we’ll come up with sounds for the objects, create
dialogues for the characters and imagine a sound atmosphere for the film.
40 press kit doclisboa'19In Half
for children aged 8 – 11
We think about what it would be like to live in a divided city. In a small activity focus-
sing on sound and image techniques, we explore new ways of telling stories.
Editing workshop
for youngsters aged 12 – 15
Witnessing, being part of and taking action by reinventing.
On the Other Side
for children aged 4 – 7 (with an adult)
What do we picture beyond the wall? We go beyond our own frontiers to create our
ideal city. Tell us what you see!
Video mapping workshop
for children aged 8 – 11
We’ll try out the video mapping technique live: we’ll screen a few archive images on
the surface of a makeshift wall, as a way to create a memorial to the Berlin Wall.
Docs 4 Kids school workshops
Length: 1h30
School groups
SPECIAL WORKSHOP FOR SENIORS
Length: 2h
A workshop to bring senior groups closer to documentary film.
41 press kit doclisboa'19DOCS 4 KIDS PARTY
To bring 11 days of activities to an end, we invite all families to join us in this party
filed with entertainment. With the help of some of our collaborators, we prepared a
series of activities for all ages.
Free attendance upon prior inscription.
Tickets
School groups: €1 per participant (€1,1 at Cinemateca Júnior)
Families: €4 per participant
Carers do not pay
Contact:
Sara Marques, projecto.educativo@doclisboa.org, +351 910 951 160
42 press kit doclisboa'19PROGRAMME
The Rescue / Sieglinde Hamacher / GDR / 1980 / 5’
M. Daff is Shooting a Film / Klaus Georgi / GDR / 1986 / 4’
The Solution / Sieglinde Hamacher / GDR / 1987 / 4’
Belly and Soul / Klaus Georgi / GDR / 1988 / 5’
The Full Circle / Klaus Georgi / GDR / 1988 / 4’
The Monument / Klaus Georgi, Lutz Stützner / GDR / 1989 / 4’
Variants / Klaus Georgi / GDR / 1979 / 3’
The Wall / Jürgen Böttcher / GDR / 1990 / 97’
The Wall / Walter de Hoog / USA / 1962 / 10’
Untravel / Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr. / Serbia, Slovakia / 2018 / 10’
The Other Side / Khen Shalem / Israel / 2011 / 23’
Connected Walls USA / México #Child / Fidel Enriquez, Valeria Fernandez / Belgium, France / 2014 / 5’
Walls / Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina / Spain / 2015 / 80’
43 press kit doclisboa'19NEBULAE NETWORK
Nebulae is the new space for networking at Doclisboa. It is a group of activities,
gatherings, opportunities and people for the advancement of the creation, produc-
tion and dissemination of independent film.
Nebula – a diffuse cloud of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous
patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass absorbs or reflects
incident light or emits its own light. Some nebulae come from the gas and dust
thrown out by the explosion of a dying star. Other nebulae are regions where new
stars are beginning to form.
ARCHÉ
Arché is a laboratory of professional activities aiming directors, producers and
other film professionals. With the support of Ibermedia Programme, it intends to
provide tools to new film projects, as well as moments of reflection and trainning
thus fostering and assuring projects’ identity and quality.
Arché’s key aims are:
. To provide a space of deep reflexion on film projects and its different stages of
production, contributing to its quality and thus its future career;
. To ensure that the work on the participating projects is free from immediate
financial and logistical objectives, while directly focusing in the reflection on the
creative process in terms of directing and production;
. To encourage the creation of collaborative networks between different projects
and production structures, allowing the collaboration between independent struc-
tures, thus ensuring the identity of the participating projects;
44 press kit doclisboa'19. To provide a means of contact with international agents of high quality in an atmo-
sphere of an in-depth work;
. The creation of a market model focused on projects and auteurs, approaching the
production process mainly as an authorial project;
. To contribute to the integration of Portuguese authors and producers in interna-
tional networks, granting access to the most important problematics, temathics
and terminologies.
PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES
Project Development Workshops
Arché workshops target projects in different stages of development and produc-
tion. They aim at providing projects in the writing and development stages with
the necessary tools to explore the subject and reflect upon the strategies to im-
plement in the film. On the other hand, they include viewing footage and/or working
versions in the case of projects in the editing stage or first cuts. Participants will
work collectively in the workshops, with the different projects sharing experiences,
in order to question and enhance each of them.
22 – 25 October, Culturgest
45 press kit doclisboa'19Tutors
Andrés Duque
Andrés Duque is a Spanish filmmaker who was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He
works on the fringes of Spanish non-fiction with a strong documentary and es-
say-like orientation. His films were shown and awarded at major international film
festivals such as Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista and Buenos Aires. In 2012, he was
invited to the Flaherty Film Seminar.
Virginia García del Pino
She is part of the new Spanish auteur cinema, and she teaches in the scope of the
master’s degree in documentary film at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Her work has been widely shown internationally at film festivals and contemporary
art centres. Her first feature film, El jurado (2012), entered the competition at FID
Marseille, FIC Valdivia and Punto de Vista. Her short film, Improvisaciones de una
ardilla (2017), won Malaga’s festival last this year.
Karen Akerman
Worked on more than 50 films as editor, having received several prizes. The films
she co-directed with Miguel Seabra Lopes have been shown at numerous film fes-
tivals, such as Doclisboa, Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Uppsala, IndieLisboa and Rio,
and at museums and galleries like Tate Modern or the National Museum of Contem-
porary Art (Bucharest). Carries out editing workshops, master classes and labs.
Has produced over 20 short films and co-produced 2 feature films.
Pitching and One-to-one Meetings
Participants pitch their projects in 10 minutes presentations to industry guests.
Producers, programmers, sales agents and other professionals attending Doclis-
46 press kit doclisboa'19boa will be invited. On the afternoon, a series of dynamic meetings between partici-
pants and industry guests will take place.
21 October, Culturgest
Masterclasses and Encounters
A programme of masterclasses divided in two moments: the first one in Arché and
the second in the frame of MRG//Work, during Márgenes Film Festival in November.
In Arché the masterclasses will address subjects related to film pre-production and
production stages. These will be individual and collective masterclasses, oriented
by international experts with a focus on the Ibero-American market.
22 – 24 October, Culturgest
PROJECTS AND PARTICIPANTS
Azul
by Ágata de Pinho
Production: Uma Pedra no Sapato (Portugal)
Writing and development stage
Babado
by João Vieira Torres e Camila Freitas
Production: Duas Mariola Filmes, A Primeira Idade (Brazil, Portugal)
Development stage
47 press kit doclisboa'19El empresario
by Germán Scelso
Production: Alexandra Galvis, Market Chile (Argentina, Chile)
Editing stage
La memoria de las mariposas
by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Production: Isabel Madueño Medina, Miti Films (Peru, France)
Writing stage
Los últimos
by Sebastián Peña Escobar
Production: Marcelo Martinessi, La Babosa Cine (Paraguay)
Writing stage
Mother Lode
by Matteo Tortone
Production: Malfé Film (Italy, France, Switzerland)
Editing Stage
Mussolini mi ha detto
by Toia Bonino
Production: Alejandra Grinschpun (Argentina)
Writing stage
O Lugar Mais Seguro do Mundo
by Helena Wolfenson e Aline Lata
Production: Krassivaya Filmes (Brazil)
Editing stage
48 press kit doclisboa'19NEW PROJECT
In partnership with Spanish film festival Márgenes and with the support of the
Ibermedia Programme, in 2019 Arché presents a new project: RAW: Residencies
Arché→Work. RAW is a six-week itinerant programme that includes the participation
in Arché, a 4-week artistic residency in Lisbon and the participation in MRG//Work,
Márgenes creative development lab. RAW is aimed at two distinct groups: directors
and producers with a project in development and young critics and film researchers.
Creative Residencies
The program is aimed at emerging directors and producers from one of the Iberme-
dia Program member countries with an audiovisual project in development. Priority
will be given to innovative, coherent and relevant proposals in the contemporary
scene.
Selected Projects:
Miraba caer las gotas iluminadas por los relámpagos, y cada que respiraba sus-
piraba, y cada vez que pensaba, pensaba en ti
by Pepe Gutiérrez García
Production: Tatiana Graullera, Los no ricos films (México)
Development Stage
Pepe
by Nelson Carlo de los Santos
Production: Pablo Lozano, Tanya Valette, Monte y Culebra SRL (Dominican Republic,
Colombia, France)
Writing stage
49 press kit doclisboa'19Sobre las Nubes
by María Aparício
Production: María Aparicio (Argentina)
Writing stage
Research and Film Criticism Residencies
This program is aimed at young critics and researchers from one of the Ibermedia
Program member countries, whose object of study is related to the non-fiction
cinematic practice, with a focus on Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American audio-
visual production. This programme aims to promote the creation of content and
knowledge in order to foster the dialogue between research and contemporary
filmmaking practices.
Participants:
Lucia Salas (Argentina)
Abstract: Artists are settlers. And space? With Land, Lucía Salas searches for
films made in Los Angeles, a never-ending city located in the USA, but which is also
an extension of many lands: Latin America to the south, Asia from the Pacific and
the world in all its margins.
Miguel Zozaya (Spain)
Abstract: Taking as a starting point the latest editions of Doclisboa and Márgenes,
this research aims to reflect on the presence of Spanish documentary films: their
thematic and formal interests, their possible genealogies and the place they occu-
py, both in the history of Spanish cinema and in the current map of international
non-fiction films.
50 press kit doclisboa'19JURY AND AWARDS
Chi-hui Yang
Luana Melgaço
Matthijs Wouter Knol
Arquipélago – Contemporary Art Center Award for Best Project in the Writ-
ing and Development Stage
RTP Award for Best Project in the Editing Stage and Works-in-Progress
FCSH Award for Best Project
51 press kit doclisboa'19MEETINGS
Financing Models and Institutions
22 OCT / 6 pm, Culturgest – Fórum Debates
Speakers: Nuno Fonseca (Eurimages), Luís Chaby Vaz (ICA), Katharina Retzlaff
(Filmförderungsanstalt), Jochen Coldewey (Nordmedia)
Moderator: Filipa Reis
Masterclass conducted in English, without translation
Free entrance
Production: from inception to shooting, economies and ecologies
23 OCT / 6 pm, Culturgest – Fórum Debates
Speakers: Filipa Reis, Luana Melgaço, Puy Oria
Masterclass conducted in Portuguese and Spanish, without translation
Free entrance
Editing: processes and materials
24 OCT / 6 pm, Culturgest – Fórum Debates
Speakers: Claire Atherton, Karen Akerman, Pedro Filipe Marques
Round table conducted in English, without translation
Free entrance
52 press kit doclisboa'19Criticism, curatorship and political commitment
23 OUT / 3 pm, Culturgest – Fórum Debates
Speakers: Chi-hui Yang, Erika Balsom, Jason Fox, Juliano Gomes, Luís Mendonça,
Susana Nascimento Duarte
Mesa redonda conduzida em inglês, sem tradução
Entrada livre
State of the Art
In each edition one industry topic will be debated and analysed together with ex-
perts. In 2019, in collaboration with Creative Europe Desks, the topic will be the dis-
tribution of films in educational settings. An afternoon with speakers, discussions
and group work, intending to contribute to a wider discussion about the European
film market in educational settings.
Go to school: How can docs reach the educational market?
A conference and a debate on good practices as far as the educational market
distribution is concerned, focussing on documentary film. The session comprises
some of the best examples when approaching the school market in Europe, joined
by excerpts from one “case study” film and a presentation of the Education Proj-
ect model at Apordoc – Associação Pelo Documentário. Presented by the Creative
Europe Desks MEDIA from Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Croatia, it
brings together Portuguese and international guests openly sharing experiences
and knowledge.
53 press kit doclisboa'19Excerpts from the film
Srbenka, de Nebojša Slijepčević / 2018 / Croatia / 72’
Speakers:
Ana Eliseu, Os Filhos de Lumiére (Portugal)
Gudrun Sommer, Duisburger Filmwoche (Germany)
Martin Schantz Faurholt, Filmcentralen (Denmark)
Oliver Sertić, Restart (Croatia)
Tone Grøttjord, Sant & Usant (Norway)
Moderators:
Susana Costa Pereira
(head of the Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Portugal) Cíntia Gil (director of Doclisboa)
19 OCT / from 3 pm to 6 pm, Culturgest – Fórum Debates
The session will be held in English, with no translation
Open to the public within the availability of seats
54 press kit doclisboa'19CONSULTING
Doclisboa cares about the future of the films and projects that it presents. We
provide moments for filmmakers and producers to meet with market experts, who
can advise them on festivals and distribution strategies.
Madeleine Molyneaux
Madeleine Molyneaux is a creative producer and curator based in New York and
Los Angeles. Her company, Picture Palace Pictures, founded in 2004, works closely
with emerging and established international visual artists, musicians and filmmak-
ers, to develop, produce and represent films and hybrid moving image works that
often defy easy categorization. She is currently developing a feature film based on
the life of the poet Charles Bukowski.
María Vera
Argentinian producer, festival distributor and sales agent. Founder of Kino Rebelde,
a company focused on creative distribution of non-fiction and hybrid narratives.
Her films have been selected and awarded in festivals as Berlinale, IFFR Rotterdam,
IDFA, Visions Du Réel, Hotdocs, DocLisboa, Mar del Plata and Viennale. María has a
background as a filmmaker, producer of socio-political and human rights contents
as well as a film curator.
55 press kit doclisboa'19PARALLEL ACTIVITIES
ROUND TABLE
RISE AND FALL OF THE WALL - THE CINEMA OF EAST GERMANY
The DEFA, a state film studio, was founded just after World War II and remained
active until 1991, producing hundreds of fiction and documentary works. How was it
to film in East Germany? Taking as a starting point the films shown in the scope of
the retrospective, we will reflect about film practice, censorship and propaganda.
In the presence of Ralf Schenk (film historian and director of the DEFA Foundation),
Volker Koepp and Thomas Heise (film directors), Agnès Wildenstein (curator of
the retrospective) and Joana Ascensão (programmer at Cinemateca Portuguesa),
among other guests.
DEBATE
German feminists discuss feminisms before and after the fall of the Wall. Could
East Germany legacy have influenced current feminist speeches and practices in
Germany? What can those memories teach us in order to deal with the emerging
anti-democratic and anti-feminist political trends? What brings feminists in Ger-
many and in Europe together, and what sets them apart from each other? Femi-
nist activist Anne Wizorek and gender studies specialist Hildegard Maria Nickel will
engage in a discussion moderated by Helena Ferro de Gouveia and co-organised by
Associação Mulheres sem Fronteiras e Fundação Friedrich Ebert Portugal.
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