doclisboa 2007

programme > october 27

programme day-by-day

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october 27 - saturday

27 Oct. 14.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
20 Oct. 22.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
My Country, My country [I]
Laura Poitras
90´ USA 2006

Working alone in Iraq over eight months, Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence.

27 Oct. 14.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
Rebellion: The Litvinenko case [CI]
Andrei Nekrasov
105´ Russia 2007

The secret war between Russian dissidents and FSB, the successor agency of the KGB, splashed into the world's front pages last November when Alexander (Sasha) Litvinenko died in London poisoned by radioactive Polonium-210, which was slipped into his tea during a meeting with two visitors from Moscow. In a series of revealing interviews with the main protagonists of the Litvinenko case, including his friends, his alleged killers, his widow and Sasha himself, the film recreates a world of intrigue, high-stake politics, love, loyalty and betrayal, which is more intricate and breathtaking than any fiction could be.

27 Oct. 21.00 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts [SE]
Spike Lee
240´ USA 2007

As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document the tragedy. The result is “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”, an intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction that tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.

27 Oct. 16.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
Carnaval da Vitória [SE]
António Olé
40´ Angola 1978

Made during the first Carnival celebrated after Independence, this documentary by António Ole, one of the most important Angolan contemporary artists, shows us the Luanda and Benguela inhabitants between their workplaces and the arrangements and rehearsals that culminated in that day’s popular festivities.

27 Oct. 16.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
Mopiopio, Sopro de Angola [SE]
Zézé Gamboa
55´ Angola 1991

“Mopiopio” was one of the first films of Zézé Gamboa – the director of “O Herói”, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize in 2005. Mopiopio means whistle in Quimbundo, which in this film is a metaphor of the Angolan people, who in spite of all the devastation caused by the civil war, still whistles its music.

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