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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.
Sections
International Competition CI |
Investigations I |National
Competition CN |Special
Sessions SE |
Frederick Wiseman Retrospective RW |New
Vision R&E |Filmed
Diaries and Portraits DF |
New
Families, New Identities NF,
NI | Made
in China MC |Heart
Beat (Musical Program) HB |
Mozambique! M | Polish
Shorts CP | Maratonadoc MD | The
state of Portuguese documentaries |
Docfestas
São Jorge |