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Programme doclisboa 2008


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October 18 – saturday

18 OCT. 11.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 16 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
Juvenile Court FW
Frederick Wiseman
144´ USA 1973
Juvenile Court shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offences. The sequences show the conflicts between community protection and the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in the administration of a juvenile court.

18 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 19 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2)
Strange Culture R&E
Lynn Hershman Leeson
75´USA 2008
Strange Culture documents the ongoing and precedent-setting legal battle of Steve Kurtz, an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo and a founding member of the internationally acclaimed art and theatre group Critical Art Ensemble. Kurtz was working on an exhibition for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He was detained as a suspected “bio terrorist” and is currently part of an ongoing federal trial. As Kurtz cannot legally talk freely about the case, Leeson enlists actors to interpret his story. Dramatic re-enactments are woven together through animation, news footage, testimonials and interviews. The resulting film investigates the risk artists face when they question government policies in a contemporary post-9/11 climate.

18 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1) | 23 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Déclic Years (Les Années Déclic) DF
Raymond Depardon
65´ France 1983
The autobiographical portrait of Raymond Depardon, a photographer who overlays his voice to his face, using a series of pictures captured by him between 1957 and 1977. This documentary portrays the artist course through a career of twenty years in photography, while recovering some of his movies. We can also find the beginning of a reflection about image in Depardon’s own face - the images are what allow him to question his own world and career.

18 OCT. 15.00 – São Jorge (room 3) | 26 OCT. 17.00 – São Jorge (room 3)
My Mums Used to Be Men NF,NI
Julie Beanland
57´ UK 2005
Her father was once called Brian but now he’s had a sex change operation and became Sarah. Now he’s a mother. Brian’s partner, truck driver Lee, has also had a sex change and he’s now Louise’s other ‘mum’ Kate. Louise’s mother, Hayley, has remarried and is no longer part of her life. Confused? Louise isn’t. Since the news of this unusual family broke, the tabloids have dubbed Louise, Sarah and Kate as ‘Britain’s Weirdest Family’. Now Louise is being teased at school. But instead of hiding, she’s determined to put the record straight and prove that, if others leave them alone, they can be happy.

18 OCT. 15.30 – São Jorge (room 1) | 19 OCT. 15.30 – São Jorge (room 1) | 25 OCT. 15.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Docs 4 Kids
The Red Race
Chao Gan
70´Germany/China 2008
- Special workshop for children at the São Jorge Cinema Theatre
Following every day of a group of Chinese children from impoverished rural provinces that have the dream of becoming gold medalists, The Red Race shows us the physical and emotional aspects of competition at his highest level. After the media and sports hegemony revealed by the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, we take an insight on the other side of success.
Age: from 8 to 12 years old
Coordinator: Maria Remédio; limited registrations
Information and registration:
+351 96 327 12 55 mail: escolas@doclisboa.org

18 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 20 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 26 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
Red Paradise MC
Bai Budan
7´ China 2007
In a valley between seven great mountains, there’s a small village, Laoyaogou, whose hard working inhabitants explore coal mines under Communist Party supervision. Despite the difficulties the village had to face during the last years, reality shows several “miracles”. In 2006, the village won the title for “Civilized and Harmonious Village of Shanxi’s Province”, for which the locals expressed grateful thanks to all of those who helped them, as well as to the Communist Party.
Little Feet MC
Bai Budan
114´ China 2005
In Xiayao Village in the Shanxi Province, we meet Bai Danu, foot-bound since she was seven years old, who married Liu Buhan more than forty years ago. The eighty year old couple still has to get up early to work in the fields and come back home late in the evening. Far from the luster of modern China, Little Feet shows us the reality of the broken rural areas with scenes where various other old ladies pour out their feelings on their “little feet”.

18 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 20 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 22 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
The Square MC
Zhang Yuan and Dua Jing-Chuan
100´ China 1994
Directors Hang Yuan and Dua Jing-Chuan choose not only to focus on the set of one of the most famous squares of the world, Tiananmen, but to also draw a meticulous portrait of the daily life of this place. Directed in 1994, five years after the events on the 4th of June of 1989, the duo steps away from political or historical considerations. They choose instead to reveal the daily details: a police statue, the image of tourists taking pictures, the rite to hoist and to strike the flag, or people making exercise.

18 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 16 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2)
Meat RW
Frederick Wiseman
113´ USA 1976
Meat traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a highly automated packing plant. A relentless study about the large food industry in America and the ruthless efficiency of its production machine.

18 OCT. 17.00 –São Jorge (room 3) | 26 OCT. 19.00 –São Jorge (room 3)
Kenia and Her Family NF, NI
Llorenç Soler
55´Spain 2005
The film depicts the experience of a female couple in Catalonia, Julia and Aida, who decided to have a baby. After four artificial insemination failures, the couple decides to look for a biological father. Julia gets pregnant on the first attempt. Over a year, we follow the organization of this family, which includes the two mothers and their respective families, but also the biologic father, his husband and other friends.

18 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1) | 23 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
The Rest of a Story CI
Antonio Prata
35´ Italy/Switzerland 2007
The film author returns to Zurich, where he had his first experience with heroin and left to cure himself. In a trip through his past, this is his attempt at confronting what remains in his memory.
Must Read After My Death CI
Morgan Dews
74´ Spain/USA, 2007
The intimate story of a Connecticut couple in the sixties, Charlie and Allys, told by their own words and images, that turned to psychiatry in order to help their marriage and submit themselves to daily sessions of group and individual therapies. Instructed by their doctors to record their discussions, this unconventional couple is a victim of a traumatic system that promotes the use of drugs and shock therapies, showing a family’s struggle to reconstruct themselves and the moral image of an era.

18 OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 20 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2)
My Enemy's Enemy I
Kevin Macdonald
87´France/UK 2007
For decades, the United States and post war European governments protected one of the most famous and infamous commanders of the Gestapo: Klaus Barbie, also known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. My Enemy’s Enemy follows the activities of this ex-Nazi during the post-war period, working for the very nations that once pursued him during World War II. Klaus Barbie teached and practiced torture in Latin America under explicit American protection and the French government’s compliance. A demystifying and disenchanted portrait of the State’s interests.

18 OCT. 18.30 - Londres (room 2) | 21 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Bab Sebta CN
Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo
110´ Portugal 2008
Bab Sebta means “the door of Ceuta” in Arabic. It is also the name for the passage between Morocco and Ceuta, the place where all of those who come from several parts of Africa converge to try to get into Europe. Bab Sebta, travels through four cities to meet the time and voices of these travelers.

18 OCT. 18.45 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 19 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 21 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
We (Wo Men) CI
Huang Wenhai
102’ Switzerland/China 2008
The voices in this film are all of conscious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their ethos is: “Where affairs of state are concerned, we cannot stand by and watch.” And yet, the reward for their concern is a lifetime spent in political turmoil and years of constant intimidation and surveillance. We is a documentary that illustrates the perils of seeking freedom in a time of darkness.

18 OCT. 19.00 –São Jorge (room 3) | 26 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Louise, Her Father, Her Mothers,
Her Brother and Her Sisters NF, NI
Stéphane Mercúrio and Catherine Sinet
56´ France 2004
In a noisy and entertaining family dinner, an unusual family is sitting around the table, made of Louise’s relatives: her father, her two mothers, her stepmother, her brother and sisters. Françoise and Gérard have been in love for 44 years. They have three children. Sybille and Sylviane have been in love for 23 years. They wanted to have a child so they asked their friend Françoise to “lend” them Gérard, her husband. And she agreed.

18 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 21 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Polish Shorts CP
Krzysztof Kieslowski
From the City of Lodz, 1968, 18’
I was a Soldier, 1970, 16’
Factory, 1971, 17’
Before the Rally, 1971, 16’
Refrain, 1972, 11’
The Office, 1966, 5’
Betweem Wroclaw and Zielona Gora, 1972, 11’
The Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine, 1972, 21´

18 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 21 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
Salim Baba CI
Tim Sternberg
15´ India/USA 2007
Salim Muhammad lives in Calcutta with his wife and five children. Since he was ten, he makes a living out of showing old pieces of film to children in his neighbourhood with an old projector he inherited from his father. Salim carries around the projector with his kids, hoping they will continue his work.
Land of the Devil (El Pais del Diablo) CI
Andrés Dí Tella
75´ Argentina 2008
El Pais del Diablo by Andrés di Tella examines an historical episode that happened in the decade of 1870 when Adolfo Ensina, the former Minister of Defense, proposed a megalomaniac project: to dig a gulf with a 600 kilometers extension between the Atlantic Ocean and the Andes in order to sustain the “indigenous threat”.

18 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 23 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson SE
Alex Gibney
119’ USA/UK 2008
The last documentary of multi-prized director Alex Gibney (Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary in 2008) presents us the life and work of one of the most controversial American reporters: the creator of “gonzo journalism”, Hunter S. Thompson. Lead by an impressive libido and under a strong use of drugs and alcohol, Thompson was the true freelancer, freely attacking everything and everyone with an amazing sense of humour. The movie is narrated by Johnny Depp.

18 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 22 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
The Women of Brukman I
Isaac Isitan
90´ Canada 2007
For a few years, filmmaker Isaac Isitan lived inside Brukman, an Argentinean clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and expropriation after a social revolution made by women workers. An epic film, The Women of Brukman tells the unique story of a cooperative formed against the background of Argentina's devastating economic collapse, working to give these women their jobs back. An example of success and persistence that created a movement of hope in Argentinean society and that became a sociological “case study”.

18 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 22 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Mozambique Archives M
Ibo, O Sangue do Silêncio
Kuxa Kanema 1, 63, 262
Estas são as Armas
Camilo de Sousa/Murillo Salles/Bernardo Honwana
106´Mozambique
The recovery process of the historical archives from Mozambique Cinema Institute began in 2008. This session reunites the first recovered images from the post-independent period (Kuxa Kanema; Ibo, The Blood of Silence; These Are the Weapons). These Are the Weapons – by Murillo Salles and Bernardo Honwana – won the Silver Dove at the Leipzig Festival in 1978 and was the biggest ticket-office in Mozambique’s movie history.

18 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 24 OCT. 14.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 25 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
Crime and Punishment (Zui Yu Fa) MC
Zhao Liang De
123´China 2007
Filmed in the border regions between North Korea and China, Crime and Punishment follows the daily life of young Chinese guards based at a police station. In this place, we meet several characters, from petty thieves to people who need social and economic assistance. We also observe the competition for promotion that is developed between the young recruits as the end of the year approaches and the officers are due to retire.

18 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 24 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Black Tears (Lágrimas Negras) HB
Sónia Herman Dolz
75´ Netherlands/Cuba 1997
Unfairly shadowed by the media success of Buena Vista Social Club, which premiered in the same year, Black Tears is still today the best documentary about Cuba and the island’s spirit. The main characters are five musicians of La Vieja Trova Santiaguera (The Old Troubadours) who at the end of their performances usually need to be assisted off the stage. The reason for this has nothing to do with their tiredness or the physical engage they put during the concert, but because the stairs are too big of a risk for their fragile legs (already with 80 years of age). The touching quotidian of these musicians is shown through their international tours.

18 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1) | 16 OCT. 20.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Z32 SE
Avi Mograbi
81´ France/Israel 2008
An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, raisin issues he is not yet ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies for the camera as long as his identity is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the proper solution in concealing the soldier’s identity, he questions his own political and artistic conduct. Z32 centers itself in a difficult frontier between the disturbing testimony of the soldier and its artistic representation.

18 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 21 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
Sidney Poitier, an Outsider in Hollywood SE
Catherine Arnaud
70´ France 2008
Catherine Arnaud builds a portrait of one of the greatest Hollywood actors and a living symbol of the American dream, Sidney Poitier, now 80 years of age, and the first black man to win an Oscar by the Academy. It is the history of an actor who offered hope in equal rights to an entire generation, by achieving stardom and quietly struggling against racism prejudice and social injustice. A destiny that walked side by side with the one of the Afro-American community in the United States for decades.

18 OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2) | 25 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Hunger R&E
Steve McQueen
92´ UK 2008
The first long feature film by British artist Steve McQueen examines Bobby Sand’s last months of life, an IRA activist that decided to protest 27 years ago against the conditions of prisoners in Northern Ireland’s Maze prison. This movie is an account of the 1981 hunger strike that Sands lead at the time as a protest for special category status for republican prisoners. This political gesture made him a symbol of the Republican army’s fight, particularly after his death. In Hunger there is no simplistic notion of “hero” or “martyr”, both being questioned and evaluated.

18 OCT. 23.15 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 24 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2)
National 206 (Nacional 206) CN
Catarina Alves Costa
53’ Portugal 2008
A film about a textile factory on national highway 206, northern Portugal, in the Ave River Valley. While looking for personal school experiences, director Catarina Alves Costa came across the everyday life and routine of a factory that never shuts down, day or night, and of those who work there. Inside its corridors and enormous machines, we follow the workers’ daily life as they talk about different professional and scholar experiences.
The Flight of the Humbi-Humbi
(O Voo do Humbi-Humbi) CN
Carlos Eduardo Viana
60´ Portugal 2008
NGO’s, churches, community leaders, teachers, students and communities agents all participate in the process of social, cultural and economic development of a small rural area in Angola: the commune of Lombe. The school plays a fundamental part.