Pays Barbare (Barbaric Land), Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, France, 2013

Doclisboa '13 begins with Pays Barbare, an essential film about Italian fascism and colonialism in Ethiopia, where private and anonymous historical archives of this African country are being dug into. Pays Barbare is also up for competition in the category of FEATURE FILMS and is directed by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.
24 OCT / 21.30, Culturgest - Grand Auditorium
30 OCT / 16.30, Culturgest - Grand Auditorium

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Argerich (Bloody Daughter), Stéphanie Argerich, Switzerland/France, 2013

Also on the 24th Argerich will be presented, where two of the world's greatest artists of classical music, Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, are portrayed in an intimate family environment. Stéphanie, the daughter of the couple, directs the film. Argerich is inserted in the HEART BEAT section.
24 OCT / 21.15, Culturgest - Minor Auditorium
27 OCT / 17h, São Jorge - Hall 3

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Hélio Oiticica, César Oiticica Filho, Brazil, 2012

Hélio Oiticica, a film about one of the most influential Brazilian artists of the 20th century, the creator of the cultural movement "Tropicalism" and associated with musicians such as Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. The film is directed by the artist's nephew César Oiticica Filho.
24 OCT / 21.30, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Hall
01 NOV / 16.30, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Hall

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Perret in Frankreich und Algerien (Perret in France and Algeria), Heinz Emigholz, Germany, 2012

A film by Heinz Emigholz, Perret in Frankereich und Algerien, reveals 30 buildings and architectural complexes designed and constructed by the French architect and civil engineer Auguste and Gustave Perret. The film is inserted in Doclisboa's PROGRAM SPECIAL 5, which presents films in context with Portuguese Architectural Year.
24 OCT / 21.15, São Jorge - Hall 3
29 OCT / 15.45, Culturgest - Minor Auditorium

Noces Rouges (Red Wedding), Guillaume Suon, Cambodia, 2012

The first day of this edition of Doclisboa also presents Noces Rouges at the Alvalade Cinema City. Guillaume Suon depicts the lives of Cambodian women forced to marry by the Red Khmers. Noces Rouges is included in the PROGRAM SPECIAL 1, which shows stories of violence through faces and names.
24 OCT / 21.45, Cinema City Alvalade - Hall 1
30 OCT / 16.30, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Hall

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Outtakes From the Life of a Happy Man, Jonas Mekas, USA, 2012

Jonas Mekas presents Outtakes From the Life of a Happy Man. The filmmaker exhibits the
compilation of his films' "leftovers", from 1950 until today. Mekas states that this is the ideal way to create his last film.
24 OCT / 21.15, Cinema City Alvalade - Hall 3
29 OCT / 22h, Cinema City Alvalade - Hall 3

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By doing so, the playground was designed for children from 3 to 10 years old that can do educational activities and play safely, while their parents watch the films. On the other hand, the festival organisation feels that by creating means to make the festival more accessible to everyone is part of the social and political responsibility of a project like Doclisboa.

This project - Espaço Infantil - is a partnership that have been established between Doclisboa and the kindergarden Jardim da Fantasia that counts on the collaboration of trained and certified people.

The Espaço Infantil will run from October 25th to November 3rd, from 4pm to 9.30pm (working days) and from 3pm to 9.30pm (weekends). The price per child and per session is 1,50 €.

This year’s edition will feature 244 films from 40 countries – 123 feature films and 121 short films, 46 Portuguese films, 42 first feature films, 36 international releases, 5 international and 1 European.

Cinta Pelejà, Cíntia Gil and Susana de Sousa Dias have been leading the Festival since 2012 and were joined by Augusto M. Seabra at the presentation of this program that is based upon three fundamental levels: the relationship between intimate and personal life and people’s common life; archive as expression of the past and questioning subject that allows us to read the present and manufacture future possibilities; and the dialogue between different generations of filmmakers who try to think the present in political terms and their propositions pertaining various ways of watching the world and acting upon it.

A fourth axis, which is also included in Doclisboa, is Portuguese cinema. With 46 domestic films in its various sections, this edition once again confirms the existing direct link with the political and financial situation of Portuguese films. According to the Board “this edition shall be an edition of resistance because making films is – and will always be – a form of resistance.”

This festival will be marked by the absence of the Iranian director and author of the closing film (Manuscripts don’t Burn), Mohammad Rasoulof who was recently forbidden to leave his country. Therefore the direction of Doclisboa decided to leave his seat as Chairman of the International Competition Jury vacant, as denouncement response and support to the Iranian filmmaker.

Once again Doclisboa has major names as jurors for the Portuguese Competition: Michael Renov, author of fundamental books on films and documentaries, curator of documentary programmes and juror in several festivals; the Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde, and Birgit Kohler, co-editor of Arsenal – Institut fur Film und Videokunst, in Berlin.

Apart from the regular sessions, Doclisboa’13 also proposes the Passages section dedicated to Archive. It will feature installations by Hartmut Bitmosky, Elizabeth Price (Turner Prize 2012) and Camille Henrot, at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, and the 14 episodes of Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Rainer W. Fassbinder, at Museu da Electricidade. This section also includes the Colóquio Internacional Passagens, in partnership with Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The Iranian director went back to Iran 10 days ago and had since his passport confiscated. The authorities refuse to let him leave the country and he is not authorised to travel until "new order", or attend any festivals presenting his latest film Manuscripts don't Burn.
In these circumstances, Doclisboa organisation has decided to leave Mohammad Rasoulof's place as President of the Jury empty, as an act of support and solidarity with the Iranian filmmaker.
Doclisboa finds it not acceptable that he is deprived to leave the country and will contribute in every possible way to make clear that Rasoulof is being held against his will and hindered to exercise his job as a director and filmmaker.
Additionally, Rasoulof was supposed to attend the German premiere of the film at Hamburg Film Festival on Tuesday evening, October 1st a lifetime achievement award on October 8th Human Rights Film Festival, in Germany.
The closing session of the 11th Doclisboa is going to show Manuscripts don't Burn, to be held on Saturday, November 2nd. The film tells the story of an Iranian author who manages to secretly write down his memoirs, related to his time in jail as a political prisoner.
Once again, Doclisboa declares its solidarity with Mohammad Rasoulof and hopes the Iranian authorities to respect his civil and human rights, repudiating a regime that disrespects freedom of expression and of artistic creation.
We want to state that we do not see Mohammad Rasoulof's work as a pamphleteer denunciation of oppression in Iran, but as a very humane and sensitive portrait of a society structured on fear and on secrecy.
Doclisboa will, as long as possible, always programme films that are made in such a context, films that are important ethical and aesthetical gestures, that give us hope on the resistance of cinema and arts towards censorship and violence.