culturgest cinema são jorge cinemateca portuguesa cinema ideal film festival film international th 17 PRESS KIT www.doclisboa.org INDEX 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 87 DOCLISBOA ‘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'19 linguistic 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'19 PROGRAMME 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'19 OPENING 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'19 INTERNATIONAL 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'19 Under-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'19 PORTUGUESE 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