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October 19 – sunday
19 OCT. 11.00 – Culturgest
(small auditorium) | 26 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room
2)
Aspen RW
Frederick Wiseman
146´ USA 1991
A movie where Wiseman drives straight into Aspen’s
dichotomous heart and focus himself on the soul of one of the main tourist
attractions in the United States. Aspen is a film about a town that was famous
in the 19th century for silver mining and is now known for its scenic splendor,
mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people.
A documentary that portrays the contemporary concept of leisure.
19 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest
(small auditorium) | 21 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room
2) | 23 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
In Public MC
Jia Zhang-Ke
32´ China 2007
A documentary that synthesizes
Jia Zhan-Ke’s usual aesthetic concerns, showing us
how different people can live in different places. Somewhere
between a suspension of time and dimension, or light and
shadow, we are transported through several settings: train
stations, bus stops, and karaoke or disco places. Shot in
Shanxi, one of the country’s oldest provinces, the
spectator shares the same feeling of loneliness with the
film’s characters that catch a train or take a bus
in a landscape of work, uniforms and silence, while they
still wait for a new day to come.
Dong MC
Jia Zhang-Ke
70´ China 2005
Filmed by Jia Zhang-Ke while making Still
Life, Dong takes us to Fengjie, an old city at the Three Gorges Region that
is going to be submerged by the waters of the world’s greatest dam. Demolition
works contrast with the work of painter Liu Xiadong, who chooses eleven workers
for a painting that he will include in his own new canvas collection. Captivated
by the region and the worker’s reality, the artist feels the agony of
a world that is ending. He moves on to Thailand, where he continues his painting.
Still, under a blazing sun and violent daylight, the artist doesn’t seem
to understand the language or the local habits. A portrait of the human condition
in two distinct situations with Asia’s image in its common background.
19 OCT. 14.30 – Culturgest
(large auditorium) | 25 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
A
Tale of the Wind (Une
Histoire du Vent) DF
Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan
80´ France 1988
Joris Iven’s last film, directed with Marceline Lorrigan.
After Pour Le Mistral (1966), Ivens tries once again to capture the “invisible”:
the wind. Going back to China, Une Histoire du Vent pursues this element not
only as natural phenomenon, but also as an illustration and metaphor for the
changes in Society and Culture. A film where the poetic farewell of an author
finds a feeling of hope in the vast landscapes of Gobi’s desert and in
the reflection on the importance of art and culture.
19 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room
1) | 22 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Videoletter DF
Shuntaro Tanikawa and Shuji Tereyama
74´ Japan 1983
Video-letter is a remarkable compilation
that follows an exchange of video-letters that took place between Shuji Terayama
and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. It
can be seen as a home video produced by two prominent poets that is interlaid
with highly abstract philosophizing, slightly aberrant behavior and occasionally
flamboyant visuals, sometimes touching, sometimes extravagant, where two artists
reflect about death, talent and wisdom.
19 OCT. 15.00 – São
Jorge (room 3)
For
Them (Por Mis Hijos) NF,
NI
Aymée Cruzalegui
16’ Spain 2007
What is a woman willing to do to improve her children’s
life? Norma, a Latin American immigrant in Barcelona, fights loneliness and
the barriers of the life of a family that longs for her.
The Flower Bridge NF,
NI
Thomas Ciulei
87’ Romania 2008
A film on the daily life of a rural
family in Moldavia. After the mother immigrated to Italy
in order to find work, the father has to carry out several
duties: work in the fields, organize the house and take
care of his children. He ends up establishing a semi-military
regime that does not exclude tenderness or humour. The
Flower Bridge mingles fiction and documentary techniques.
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
19
OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 17 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest
(large auditorium) | 25 OCT. 21.30 - Museu
do Oriente
Mum
(Mama) MC
de Zhang Yuan
90´ China 1990
Zhang Yuan’s first feature film is also the first
Chinese independent film since 1949, financed at the time with the support
of some business friends and revealing the filmmaker’s appetite for controversial
subjects in Chinese society. A movie which focuses on a mother’s relationship
with her 11 year old handicapped son.
19
OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
| 20 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente
Crazy
English MC
Zhang Yuan
50´ China 1999
Li Yang is a teacher who believes
in the virtues of English studies in China. Since 1998, he has produced hundreds
of events promoting English language in public places around his country, such
as the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China or Marco Polo Bridge. Li made
public appearances for more than 13 million people and has promoted English
studies as a patriotic mission and a way to self-improvement. Conducting his
audiences with propaganda slogans, Crazy English portrays a true self-made
man, seen as a pop star or as a charismatic political dictator.
19
OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
| 26 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
Missile RW
Frederick Wiseman
115´ USA 1987
A movie that documents every step of the training of men
and women who control the U.S. nuclear arsenal by only using their fingers.
Missile follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained
for the Launch Control Centers of Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
The film includes the discussion of moral and military issues of nuclear war;
the arming, targeting and launching of the missile; codes; communications;
protection against terrorist attacks; emergency procedures; staff meetings
and tutorial sessions.
19
OCT. 17.00 – São Jorge (room 3)
Photographs
(Fotografias) NF,
NI
Andrés di Tella
110´ Argentina 2007
Son of an Argentine sociologist and a noble Indian, Andrés
di Tella shows an interest in knowing more about his Indian side after his
mother’s death. Until then, he had never seen himself as an Indian, even
feeling shame of that identity. From old letters, pictures and images that
belonged to his mother, the director drives his wife and son in a spiritual
journey that allows him to understand and accept his cultural identity.
19
OCT. 17.30 – Londres (room 1) | 16 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest
(small auditorium)
Uncle
Rithy SE
Jean-Marie Barbe
97´ France 2008
In Sihanoukville, during the shooting of his film The
Sea Wall, the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh looks back on his own work in the
past twenty years, from Site 2 to The Burnt Theatre, not forgetting the film
that is symbolic of his whole work, S21 – The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine.
Between a cinema lesson and thoughts about the documentary genre, this film
outlines the moral and ethical limits of filmmaking.
19
OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2) | 24 OCT. 23.15 – Culturgest
(large auditorium)
Tokyo
Porto 9 hours (Tóquio Porto 9 horas) CN
João Nuno Brochado
8´ Portugal 2008
A new day rises in Tokyo. In Porto, it will rise only after
another 9 hours. The differences and similarities between two places not only
geographically distant.
0=6 Homeoestética CN
Bruno de Almeida
60´ Portugal
2008
A documentary about Homeostética, an art movement
born in Lisbon in the early 80’s by Fernando Brito, Ivo, Pedro Portugal,
Pedro Proença, Manuel João Vieira and Xana. Using humour in order
to distance themselves from the art world, Homeostética cultivated an
outsider attitude with strong dada influences, producing an intense body of
work that included exhibitions, texts, manifestos, films, rock concerts and
other collective performances.
19
OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
| 22 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
In
the Land of the Cranes SE
Lisa Hagstrand
29´ Sweden 2008
During a voyage to Shangai, China, director Lisa Hangstrand
discovered that a bridge was being built in the Island of Chongming, where
one of the most important nature reserves of the world is located. The local
inhabitants and the workers in the reserve don’t know what the future
of the island will bring. Complex environmental questions are at stake.
The
Lie of the Land I
Molly Dineen
74´ UK 2007
The Lie of the Land portrays the perversion of England’s
contemporary food production system. Squeezed by the price politics imposed
by the great supermarkets and the increasing number of laws and legislation
in their field, many farmers question themselves about how they can sustain
their way of life. The Lie of the Land looks closely into the possible disappearance
of traditional British rural world.
19
OCT. 18.45 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
| 22 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
Novela
na Santa Casa CI
Cathie Levy
121´ France/Brasil 2007
Novela na Santa Casa is a film about the dreams of women
who attend Enfermaria 38 at Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the address
of Professor Ivo Pitanguy’s Plastic Surgery Service, accessible to all
social classes. For 5 months, French filmmaker Cathie Levy followed seven charismatic
characters that were looking for the joy of rebirth.
19
OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 22 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest
(small auditorium)
Polish Shorts CP
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Bricklayer, 1973, 18’
Hospital, 1976, 22’
From a Night Porter’s
Point of View, 1978, 17’
Seven Women of Different Ages,
1978, 16’
Railway Station, 1980,
14’
Talking Heads, 1980,
16’
19
OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
| 21 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
A
Day in Palestine (Un Jour en Palestine) CI
Mary Ellen Davis, José Garcia-Lozano and
Will Eizlini
6´ Canada 2007
A disturbing and fascinating collection of Super-8
images about everyday life of Palestinians in occupied
territories which contrasts itself with a series
of homemade videos filmed in the sixties.
Merely
a Smell CI
Maher Abi Samra
10´ Lebanon/Italy 2007
In Beirut, a city struck by war, a boat proceeds to the evacuation of foreign
citizens. Under the ruins of destroyed buildings, the rescue teams remove dead
bodies. Between lights and shadows, life and its finitude, the corpses draw
frontiers with others, covered by the smell of death.
Six
Floors to Hell CI
de Jonathan Ben Efrat
52´ Israel 2007
This film, the development ofshort feature film The
Mall,
awarded in 2007 at doclisboa, follows a group of clandestine Palestinian workers
in Tel-Aviv and their ways of survival while looking for work and a place to
sleep. Such is the case of Jalal, one of the many Arabians who live during
the day of occasional jobs and sleep at night in an unfinished shopping mall
basement, six grounds under the floor, with the dream of getting enough money
for his wedding.
19
OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
| 26 OCT. 14.30 - Londres (room 2)
Basic
Training RW
Frederick Wiseman
89´ USA 1971
Basic Training follows a company of draftees and enlisted
men through the nine weeks of their basic training cycle. The varieties of
training techniques used by the army in converting civilians to soldiers are
illustrated in scenes of drills, in the use of M-16’s and bayonets, a
gas chamber, mines, night crawls, an infiltration course and many forms of
ideological training.
19
OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 24 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest
(large auditorium)
Anna,
Seven Years on the Frontline I
Masha Novikova
78´ Netherlands 2008
The director of Three Comrades (the winner of Investigations
at doclisboa 2007) knew well Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian reporter murdered
in October 7th, 2006. The filmmaker and the reporter dedicated years of theirs
lives to the Chechnya conflict, unraveling the atrocities that the Kremlin
authorities don’t want to recognize. With exclusive images and interviews,
this portrait of Politkovskaya reconstitutes the last years of her career and
her lonely struggle for the truth. Unfortunately this movie couldn’t
be screened in Russia.
19
OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) |
20 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Old
Man Bebo HB
Carlos Carcas
111´ Spain 2007
The movie of a resurrection: Cuban pianist Bebo Valdês,
a symbol of the golden age of Cuban music and one of the most influential musicians
that combined jazz and afro-cuban rhythms with mambo, bolero and more recently
flamenco. In an extraordinary portrait about the man and the artist, Spanish
director Carlos Carcas establishes the sight of a unique career with evocative
footage and photos of Havana in the 40’s, from the communist revolution
to his exile in Sweden, where Valdés married and raised a family, and
the time where he fell in oblivion and became a cab driver, until his recent
artistic comeback.
19
OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 18 OCT. 18.45 – Culturgest
(large auditorium) | 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.
19
OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1) |
20 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Let’s
Get Lost HB
Bruce Weber
120´ USA 1989
When Bruce Weber, a renowned fashion photographer, finally
caught up with his idol Chet Baker, one of world’s best trumpeters in
the history of jazz, the musician’s life was already a decadent world
aroused by alcoholism and drug addiction. Let’s Get Lost sets itself
as a voyage of contrasts between two distinct ages in an artists’ career:
from the beginning of his early days in the 1950’s to his downfall in
1980’s last years. A movie that offers rare footage of his first public
appearances and interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers.
19
OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1) | 21 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest
(small auditorium)
My
Kabul CI
de Whahid Nazir
22´ Afghanistan/France 2007
As a result from a Varan school workshop in Kabul,
this film draws a picture of its own town, following
Jamal, a taxi driver that talks constantly to his
passengers. His memories of war come across with
his intense present.
Faces on the Wall CI
Bijan
Anquetil and Paul Costes
64´ Iran/France 2007
All three Dastvaré brothers were killed during
the Iran-Iraq War. They were 19, 22 and 27 years old. In 1985, the Islamic
Republic of Iran had a mural painted in memory of these three martyrs brothers.
The history of the painting is the conducting wire that allows us to question
a people’s values, described by the Iranian regime as “united by
their martyrs blood”.
19
OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
| 23 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
L’Heure
Exquise DF
René Allio
60´ France 1981
A movie where French filmmaker René Allio remembers
the city of Marseille by making a personal journey through his own family memories
between the 1920’s and the 1950’s. The director described this
project as a kind of “sentimental exploration” of his hometown
while tracing his family history. René Allio recalls Marseille with
emotion, filming all its places and shapes, and traveling the same roads and
paths of his childhood in what could be considered his most nostalgic work..
The
Loved One (L’Aimée) DF
Arnauld Desplechin
70´ France 2007
The idea of filming The Loved One came on the day French
filmmaker Arnauld Despléchin knew his father’s decision of selling
the family house in Roubaix, Northern France. If this turned out to be a pretext
to bring the camera into the different corridors and divisions of that same
place, browsing through old photos and opening old drawers and closets full
of memories, it’s his father history and the one his own mother Thérèse
(the director’s grandmother), who passed away when he was only 18 months
old, that become the heart of this deeply nostalgic and personal narrative.
19
OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
| 23 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2)
Territórios
de passagem
- Culturgest, Casa de Cima, Outra Memória CN
Solveig Nordlund
25´ Portugal 2008
José Pedro Croft was born in 1957 in Porto and has
developed a work that has made him one of the most outstanding Portuguese artists
in the last twenty five years. As a sculptor who transforms reality by dislocating
and adding new elements to it, his work tries to renew the experience that
is offered by sculpture. Director Solveig Nordlund followed his work in 2008.
That
Which Lives Close to the Origin
Leaves the Place With Difficulty
(Dificilmente
O Que Habita Perto da Origem
Abandona o Lugar) CN
Olga Ramos and Catarina Rosendo
60´ Portugal 2008
A film about Alberto Carneiro, a sculptor who was born
in São Mamede do Coronado, a rural area in northern Portugal, and who
became one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work has
developed alongside nature, living today in the place of its birth. A homecoming
that is also a return to the physical and affective places that have influenced
his work.
19
OCT. 23.00 - Londres (room 2) | 18 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest
(small auditorium)
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..
19
OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3) |
21 OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
When
Carnival Comes
(Quando
o Carnaval Chegar) (fiction) HB
Cacá Diegues
with: Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia, Nara
Leão
90´ Brasil 1972
A fictional movie that became an historical document throughout
the years. Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia and Nara Leão are Paulo,
Mimi and Rosa – a group of anonymous artists that travel in a bus around
Brazil trying to make a living. Written, directed and produced by Carlos Diegues,
Quando o Carnaval Chegar is a tribute to the old tradition of the “chanchadas” (Brazilian
popular shows known for is naïf and burlesque humour) with Chico Buarque’s
original music.
19
OCT. 24.00 – São Jorge (room 1) |
21 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Shake
the Devil Off HB
Peter Entell
99´ Switzerland 2007
Six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans,
Father Ledoux struggles to keep his parish alive at St. Augustine Church, a
symbol of music, faith and religion in the city. Many say this is where jazz
was born, and the place where slaves, free black people and whites sat side
by side for the first time to pray to God, where we can find the Tomb of the
Unknown Slave. But the ecclesiastical authorities (the catholic episcopacy)
insist in its closure. The community protests and decides to take matters into
their own hands, defending the parish priest and the church, in what became
one of the most emblematic episodes post-Katrina.
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 |