the festival

Doclisboa is the only film festival in Portugal that is exclusively dedicated to documentary films. In 2007, during the fifth edition of the festival, Doclisboa took advantage of a renewed interest in documentary films on the part of portuguese audiences and managed to attract numerous and enthusiastic viewers to the halls of Culturgest, Londres Cinema and São Jorge Cinema. Documentaries were “the talk of the town” and a new awareness was created about the genre’s enormous richness, diversity and potential. Doclisboa also aimed to break new ground and focus on the vast diversity and vitality of this cinema of reality.

In 2007, the festival aimed to continue the main objectives of previous editions:

• To show Portuguese audiences important, award-winning international films which have not yet been screened in Lisbon;
• To allow a more profound reflection upon contemporary and current themes;
• To acquaint audiences with cinematic works from other countries in a more systematic manner;
• To organise debates that mobilise the public around important films and common themes present in diverse works.

Doclisboa 2007 brought, once again, the best national and international documentary films to Lisbon: eleven days of intensive screenings, with more films, sections and complementary activities than ever before.

In October, Doclisboa was, once again, a privileged meeting point for Portuguese audiences and directors and other professionals from the world of documentaries both from Portugal and abroad (producers, distributors, programmers, critics...), while simultaneously was an open forum for reflection and discussions about the state of the world and the state of contemporary documentary cinema.