The big names in cinema and this year’s most talked-about films
PORTUGAL, Canada, Chile, France | 90 minutes | 2015
All about Lisbon: four stories in the same old city. Different characters looking for their place in the city, contemplating their wildest dreams. Sometimes it’s good to think about what could happen in your own city. So welcome to Lisbon, where mermaids float in the Tagus River and birds fly over the old city, where there are mad scientists and singing fish, lost tourist guides and lost tourists, fado and sad guitars. What a strange city, you may think — but no. Lisbon is all about being different, being sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners, even in an economic crisis. Various directors have found our strangeness fascinating. We, in turn, were fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four “Episodes of a City — Here in Lisbon.” Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes and Marie Losier took up the challenge of celebrating Indielisboa’s tenth anniversary and came up with a film that confirms the diversity, richness and values of independent filmmaking.
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[2015] Excursões[2014] Joy of Man’s Desiring [2013] Vic and Flo saw a Bear [2012] Bestiaire [2011] Curling [2009] Carcasses[2005] Drifting States
[2015] Los Barcos[2014] Mar [2013] La isla (Co-directed with Katarzyna Klimkiewicz) [2012] De Jueves a Domingo
[2014] Taprobana [2013] Ennui, Ennui [2011] Palácios de Pena (Co-directed with Daniel Schmidt) [2010] A History of Mutual Respect (Co-directed with Daniel Schmidt) [2009] Visionary Iraq (Co-directed with Benjamin Crotty) [2008] Olympia
[2015] L’Oiseau de la Nuit[2014] Alan Vega – Just a Million Dreams [2014] Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas [2012] Byun, Found Object [2011] The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
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