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Programme doclisboa 2008


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October 23 – thursday

23 OCT. 11.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
MASTERCLASS Eduardo Coutinho

23 OCT. 14.00 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 16 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1)
Polish Shorts CP
Silence I, Maciej Cuske - 2004, 19’
By the River, Magda Kowalczyk - 2006, 11’
The Cupboard, Jacob Dammas - 2007, 27’
The Booth of Fortune, Lesaw Dobrucki - 10’
The Lord of the Rims, Kuba Maciejko - 2007, 12’
52 Per Cent, Rafat Skalski - 2007, 20’
Take a Look, Adam Palenta - 2008, 4’
Zietek, Bartosz Blaschke - 2008, 16’

23 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1) | 19 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
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.

23 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2) | 20 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 24 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
A Day to Remember MC
Liu Wei
13´ China 2005
June 4th, 2005: Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei heads to the University of Beijing and Tiananmen Square with a camera and one simple question: “do you know what day is today?” As he asks students and young people passing by, he faces evasive answers and the refusal to remember the events of that date. Most say they know nothing about it and quickly go on their way, or look blankly into the camera. A Day to Remember is a movie that reflects about the memory of June 4th and how it has been replaced by silence, showing that the revolt of that time still remains a taboo subject in China.
Year by Year MC
de Liu Wei
48´ China 2005
Year by Year follows the “petitioners” from the village of Dongzhuang, Beijing, during the Chinese New Year in 2004. These petitioners try to make themselves heard and to point errors in the State’s functioning structure (Party and Government), while dedicating their lives to a cause. But in China, critical voices, even when complying with official rules, still face difficulties in obtaining practical results.

23 OCT. 16.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 21 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 24 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
Dream Walking MC
Huang Wenhai
85´China 2005
Summer 2004: artist Li Wa-ke travels to Nanyang in order to help the painter Wang Yongping direct his first film. In this piece of work, Wang not only represents himself but also transforms the story in a reconstruction of his life in the past, while getting help from friends and artists. They talk about art, poetry, religion while using improvisation in the shooting, turning their bodies into places of artistic intervention.

23 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 25 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
I Would Love To Share Spring Time With Someone
(J’aimerais Partager le Printemps avec Quelqu’u) R&E
Joseph Morder
85´France 2008
The Festival Pocket Films challenged French director Joseph Morder to make a movie diary with the camera of a cell phone. For three months, he filmed several personal events, somewhere between his own narrative and juvenile fascination for a new way of filming and a private and intimate insight to his quotidian. Not only considered as an exceptional film in France, J’aimerais Partager le Printemps avec Quelqu’un was also the first long feature film made with a cell phone that got a wide distribution in French movie theatres.

23 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1) | 17 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Enclosures CI
Arianne Olthaar
4´ Netherlands 2008
“Bathroom architecture” in European zoo’s; monkey and primate enclosures, built in the 1960’s and 70’s.
Alone in Four Walls CI
Alexandra Westmeier
85´ Germany 2007
A journey inside of a juvenile reform school in Russia that houses boys under 15, who have committed offences ranging from theft to rape to multiple murders. Most come from impoverished homes marked by beatings, alcohol abuse and absent. Alone in Four Walls listens carefully to what children have to say.

23 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2) | 19 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
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.

23 OCT. 18.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 17 OCT. 15.00 - Londres (room 1)
Tehran Backyard SE
Roxana Pope
28´ Scotland 2007
Portrait of a woman: Pari, who lives on the outskirts of Tehran and travels everyday over six hours to work as a cleaning lady. Her husband is blind, she has five children, two grandchildren and is still, at 65 years of age, the main breadwinner of her family.
The Stone Silence I
Krzystof Kopczynski
51´ Poland 2007
In 2005, Amina, a 29 year-old woman, died – apparently stoned – in the Afghan village of Spin Gaw. There are several versions of what really happened during and after her death. The Stone Silence follows the official inquiry that occurred in the village for several months and reveals the strength of moral rules deeply rooted and in contradiction with the laws of the State. Amina’s family husband (who immigrated to Iran) and the lover’s family (currently in escape) abide to tradition: silence is made of stone.

23 OCT. 18.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
The Flying Carpet (The Flying Carpet) SE
João Mário Grilo
56´ Portugal 2008
It was through Portugal that the Persian carpets entered Europe to establish one of the most important cultural traditions in terms of decorative arts in the West. 500 years later, director João Mário Grilo returned to Iran to discover their original gestures of fabrication and the hypnotic forms and colours that still maintain all their freshness and fascination. Structured in several voyages, from geometry to nature, from knotting to abrash (the natural way a colour fades and shades), this is a film about its own story, about art in general and its infinite and immemorial landscapes.

23 OCT. 20.30 - Londres (room 1) | 18 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson SE
Alex Gibney
119´ USA 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.

23 OCT. 20.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 18 OCT. 17.30 - Londres (room 1)
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.

23 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 25 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1)
Playing (Jogo de Cena) CE
Eduardo Coutinho
105´ Brazil 2007
Answering to an advertisement in a newspaper, eighty-three women tell their life stories in a studio. In June 2006, twenty-three of them were selected and filmed at the Glauce Rocha Theater, in Rio de Janeiro. In September of that same year, professional actresses played the stories told by the chosen appliers. Their images cross: who’s the “real character”? Who’s the “actress”? What is, after all, representation?

23 OCT. 21.00 - Londres (room 2) | 24 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
The World According to Monsanto
(Le Monde Selon Monsanto) I
Marie-Monique Robin
108´ France/Canada/Germany 2008
Implanted in over forty countries around the globe, Monsanto became the world leader of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms, also known as Transgenic) and one of the most controversial enterprises in history. Calling on unpublished documents and first-handed accounts by some of the victims, politicians and scientists, this documentary reconstitutes the rise of an economic empire. The author reveals the obscure strategies of multinationals to change the laws in the United Sates – thus allowing to hide the truth about transgenic effects on human beings.

23 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 25 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Night Lodgers (Hóspedes da Noite) M
Licínio de Azevedo
53´ Mozambique 2007
In the colonial years, the Grande Hotel in the city of Beira was the largest in Mozambique: 350 rooms, luxurious suites, an Olympic-sized swimming pool… Currently, 3500 people inhabit the building, which is in ruins and has no electricity or running water. Some have been living there for twenty years. In addition to the rooms, the foyers, corridors, service areas and the basement of the hotel – where it’s always night time – also serve as residences.

23 OCT. 21.30 - Museu do Oriente | 19 OCT. 14.15 – Culturgest (small auditorium) | 21 OCT. 16.00 - Londres (room 2)
In Public (Gong gong chang suo) 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 a common background.

23 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1) | 22 OCT. 21.30 – São Jorge (room 3)
Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema
(Kuxa Kanema: O Nascimento do Cinema) M
Margarida Cardoso
52´ Portugal 2003
The first cultural act of Mozambique’s government after independence in 1975 was the foundation of the National Institute of Cinema [NIC]. The new President, Samora Machel, had a strong awareness of the cinematic potential of creating an image for a new socialist nation. All over the country, cinema road units were screening NIC’s most popular production, a newsreel untitled Kuxa Kanema, which means The Birth of Cinema. People’s Republic of Mozambique became the Republic of Mozambique and NIC, once a great enterprise, was reduced to abandoned rooms and corridors, where its staff stood patiently waiting for retirement. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1991, and the visual documents that witness the first eleven years of independence - the years of the socialist revolution - rotting in a building, were about to be forgotten. From these and other living testimonies, we recover the daily path of a nation’s fallen ideal, “one cinema for the people”, and the dreams of those who believed that Mozambique could one day become a different country.

23 OCT. 22.30 - Londres (room 1) | 24 OCT. 21.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Standing Start SE
Finlay Pretsell & Adrian McDowall
13´ United Kingdom 2007
Just what does it take to be the fastest starter in the world? Standing Start gives a unique insight into Olympic cyclist Craig MacLean's life, his unflinching focus and preparation to battle it out on the world stage. A modern time “gladiator” that turns his activity into a battlefield.
The English Surgeon SE
Geoffrey Smith
94’ United Kingdom 2007
One of the most awarded documentaries in 2008. The story of British brain surgeon Henry Marsh, who has been traveling over the past 16 years between London and Ukraine to perform brain surgeries on several patients, while passing on the latest medical knowledge to his friend Dr. Igor Kurilets. The English Surgeon portrays Marsh’s extraordinary surgical skills along with his ability to teach. His expertise can save and improve hundreds of lives in a world where medical conditions are absolutely appalling.

23 OCT. 22.45 – Culturgest (small auditorium)
Conversations in Vermont DF
Robert Frank
26´ USA 1969
Described as Robert Frank’s first autobiographical film, Conversations in Vermont is in the photographer’s own words a work “about the present and the future” from the time he married with his wife Mary, built as “a sort of a family album”. In the centre of this personal and familiar voyage is the relation between Frank, a father, and his two sons Pablo and Andrea, trying to set a fragile and honest way to communicate the history of a lifetime.
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.

23 OCT. 23.00 – Culturgest (large auditorium) | 21 OCT. 18.00 - Londres (room 2)
I’d Like To Be (Queria Ser) CN
Sílvia Firmino
75´ Portugal 2008
A Primary School is under the risk of closing in Portugal’s inland. Ten students, from first to fourth grade, study in the same room. A film that searches for a program that promotes reading and ends up finding the strength, the ambitions and fears of these children.

23 OCT. 23.00 – Londres (room 2) | 21 OCT. 16.30 – Culturgest (large auditorium)
Because We Were Born (Puisque Nous Sommes Nés) CI
Jean-Pierre Duret & Andréa Santana
90´ France/Brazil 2008
Brazil, Pernambouc State: a huge service station at the side of an endless road. Cocada, 14 year old boy, lives there in an old truck ever since his father was murdered. He has a dream: to become a truck driver. Nego lives in a favela; he wants to leave and make money. At night, the two boys wander about the service station, fascinated by shops that sell everything. With the singular maturity that one gets very early in adversity, they question themselves about their identity and their future.

23 OCT. 23.30 – São Jorge (room 3) | 24 OCT. 22.00 – São Jorge (room 1)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
(Simonal: Niguém Sabe o Duro que Dei) HB
Claúdio Manoel, Calvito Leal & Michael Langer
86´ Brazil 2008
Wilson Simonal was one of the most famous Brazilian artists in the 1960’s. In those days, he was the only black musician seen as a star attraction: in sold-out shows, he sang with Sarah Vaughan and cast away singer Roberto Carlos. But his popularity decreased astonishingly in 1971, after being accused of working for the military dictatorship in Brazil. The rise and fall of an idol.