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CONTENTS Films 03 Opening and closing sessions 04 International competition feature-length films 08 International competition short films 12 Portuguese competition feature-length films 15 Portuguese competition short films 18 Research 22 New visions 28 Chantal Akerman retrospective 36 Passages 39 United We stand, divided We fall retrospective 48 Cinema of urgency 53 Heart beat 59 Portraits 61 Green years 66 Special screenings 70 Tribute to Curtas Vila do Conde 71 Tribute to Fernando Lopes Parallel activities 73 International conference Passages 73 Round tables 75 Masterclasses and Workshops 77 Docs 4 Kids 79 Pedagogic activities 79 Launchings 80 Lisbon Docs 81 Other activities 83 Daily programme 106 Films A-Z 109 Venues and tickets 113 Doclisboa team OPENING SESSION / CLOSING SESSION 3 OPENING SESSION 2012 A Última Vez que Portugal, France vi Macau 85’ The Last Time I saw Macao João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra OCT 18 / 9.30 pm OCT 23 / 4.45 pm CULTURGEST LONDRES 1 da Mata Large Aud. Two directors travel to Macao in a film, literature, and painting codes of the discovery journey of a fascinating and other, thus creating a physical and multicultural labyrinth-city in which the emotional geography album. Eastern childhood memories of one of them interact with the Eastern This film is part of the international competition fictionalised recollections framed by (feature-length films) CLOSING SESSION 2012 Cesare deve morire Italy, 76’ Caesar must die PRERELEASE Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani OCT 27 / 9.30 pm CULTURGEST Large Aud. Doclisboa is organised by: Apordoc – Associação pelo documentário The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius tary does not dwell on the crimes these Largo da Madalena, 1 - 1º 1100–317 Lisbon Caesar comes to an end. The actors leave men have committed in their ‘real’ lives; +351 218 883 093 the stage and return to their cells. They rather, it draws parallels between this [email protected] are all inmates of the Roman maximum classical drama and the world of today. www.apordoc.org security prison Rebibbia. This documen- DOCLISBOA'12 FILMS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS 4 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS 5 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS Babylon 2012 Youssef Chebbi, Tunisia, 119’ NEW TALENT 2011 Ismaël, Ala The Anabasis of France May and Fusako 66’ Eddine Slim Shigenobu, Masao OCT 25 OCT 26 Adachi and 27 Years 9.15 pm 4.15 pm without Images LONDRES 2 LONDRES 1 Eric Baudelaire On a virgin territory in the wilderness, languages. This new Babylon, surround- people arrive. Soon, a city is built out of ed by trees and animals, is rapidly taking OCT 21 / 9.15 pm OCT 23 / 6.45 pm nowhere. Being inhabited by several the form of a city at once ordinary and CULTURGEST CULTURGEST Small Aud. Small Aud. nationalities, its people speak different extraordinary. Fusako Shigenobu has been in hiding tures of State oppression that explain Bakoroman 2011, France, OCT 20 OCT 23 in Beirut for almost 30 years. May only social alienation. Anabasis is the name Burkina Faso, 62’ 9.45 pm 7.15 pm Simplice Ganou LONDRES 1 LONDRES 1 discovered Japan at the age of 27 after given, since Xenophon, to wandering, NEW TALENT her mother was arrested. Masao Adachi circuitous homeward journeys. filmed landscapes to reveal the struc- Leaving one’s family at 7, 12 or 16 years enemies. Integrating into a new world. old. Taking up residence in front of a Five Bakoroman on the road from their shop, in a video store, outside a bus village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s Arraianos 2012 station. Learning to do drugs, beg, steal, capital city, in pursuit of a better life. Spain flee, and fight. Making friends and Eloy Enciso 70’ OCT 23 OCT 25 2012, Mexico, OCT 19 OCT 22 9.30 pm 7.15 pm Fogo Canada, 61’ 7.15 pm 4.45 pm CULTURGEST LONDRES 1 Yulene Olaizola LONDRES 1 LONDRES 1 Large Aud. The deterioration of a small community demned future, there are some residents in Fogo Island is forcing its inhabitants to who decide to remain, holding on to their The inhabitants of a small village lost purification… Between reality and fable, leave and resettle. Places once occupied memories and grieving for the past, when in the woodlands between Galicia and the Arraianos play out their lives to make by humans are now becoming part of the life in Fogo was different. Portugal live and work in a quiet routine. a portrait of the rural world and its obsti- tundra landscape. In spite of a con- One day, a stranger arrives; the pos- nate resistance to disappear. sibility of change, a way out, a means of DOCLISBOA'12 FILMS DOCLISBOA'12 FILMS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS 6 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS 7 2012 2012 People’s Park USA, China San Zimei France, Hong Libbie D. Cohn, 78’ Kong Three Sisters 153’ J. P. Sniadecki Wang Bing OCT 21 OCT 26 OCT 25 OCT 27 7.15 pm 9.15 pm 9.30 pm 3.30 pm LONDRES 1 LONDRES 2 CULTURGEST LONDRES 1 Large Aud. A single-shot feature-length documen- in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. A sensory Three sisters live alone in a small village He has come to take the girls with him tary that depicts the vibrant dynamics, meditation on cinematic time and space, family house in the high mountains of to the city but he then agrees to leave the waltzing couples, mighty sycamores, and and public interaction in China. A culture the Yunan region. They spend their days older one under the supervision of her buzzing cicadas of a famous urban park of leisure and personal freedom is unveiled. working in the fields or wandering in the grandfather. village. The father returns to the village. 2012 Poslednata Bulgaria, 2012 Croatia, Vers Madrid France Lineika na Sofia Germany 60’ 75’ (The Burning Sofia’s Last WORLD NEW TALENT Ambulance Bright)! PREMIERE Ilian Metev Sylvain George OCT 24 / 9.45 pm OCT 26 / 7.15 pm OCT 22 OCT 24 LONDRES 1 LONDRES 1 9.30 pm 4.45 pm CULTURGEST LONDRES 1 Large Aud. In a city where thirteen ambulances lives against all odds. Yet, the strain of a struggle to serve two million people, broken system is taking its toll. How long A newsreel that presents some views, ideas and concepts that were thought Krassi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely can they keep on fixing society’s injured scenes, and moments of the class strug- forgotten. The European countries and heroes, filled with humour and saving until they loose their empathy? gle in Madrid: the 15M, a deep move- the world have turned to Madrid, to Plaza ment, trans-border and trans-historical, Puerta del Sol, like the flowers to the sun. which comes from afar, and reactivates 2012 OCT 20 OCT 24 The Radiant United Kingdom 7.00 pm 6.45 pm The Otolith Group 64’ CULTURGEST CULTURGEST Large Aud. Small Aud. The Radiant explores the aftermath of the partial meltdown of the Fukushima March 11 2011, when the Tohoku Daiichi nuclear power plant. The film Earthquake struck the North East Coast invokes the historical promise of nuclear of Japan at 2.46 pm, triggering a tsunami energy and summons the future threat of that killed tens of thousands and causing radiation. DOCLISBOA'12 FILMS DOCLISBOA'12 FILMS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS 8 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS 9 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS 2011 Ghaliztar az Tiner The Netherlands Thicker than 29’ 2012 Cinelândia France, Brazil Paint Thinner Louidgi Beltrame, 31’ Babak Afrassiabi WORLD Elfi Turpin PREMIERE OCT 20 OCT 23 9.45 pm 7.15 pm LONDRES 1 LONDRES 1 OCT 20 / 7.00 pm OCT 24 / 6.45 pm CULTURGEST CULTURGEST Large Aud. Small Aud. This film is about a former drug addict 400 people. While the protagonist in the who becomes revolutionary and sets fire movie that was being screened succeeds Cinelândia was filmed in the jungle of occupancy. The well-preserved glass to a cinema in Iran a few months before in dying for his cause, Hossein is forsaken Tijuca near Rio de Janeiro, where Oscar pavilion is conceived of as a projection the victory of the 1979 revolution, by the post-revolutionary establishment. Niemeyer built the Casa de Canoas space for the architect’s projects and for unwillingly causing the death of nearly (1951–53) for his family, which, however, fictions of the jungle and its mythologies. they deserted after a few years of 2012 O Milagre Portugal 40’ 2012 de Santo António The Creation United Kingdom The Miracle as We saw it 14’ Ben Rivers of Saint Anthony Sergei Loznitsa OCT 19 / 7.15 pm OCT 22 / 4.45 pm LONDRES 1 LONDRES 1 OCT 21 OCT 24 OCT 27 6.45 pm 4.15 pm 6.45 pm LONDRES 2 LONDRES 2 LONDRES 2 Three mythical stories from the Republic origin of humans, why pigs walk on all of Vanuatu, an island nation located in fours, and why a volcano sits where it In June the village of Santo António de farmers bring their animals to the church the South Pacific Ocean, concerning the does. Mixões da Serra in the Valdreu region to be blessed. Animals and people flock up of Northern Portugal honours its Patron the mountain roads to the church square Saint with a very special festival. The local to become a part of the religious festival. 2011 OCT 22 OCT 24 Dusty Night France 9.30 pm 4.45 pm Ali Hazara 20’ CULTURGEST LONDRES 1 Large Aud. At dusk, a team of sweepers come in from dust, along an avenue in the flashing the outskirts and work at night, shadows lights of cars and glimmering shops or among shadows, displacing the heavy gas stations.