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The film Olho Nu (Naked Eye) uses a set of images and sounds collected by Ney Montogrosso. It is a portrait of the singer's life and work and about his artistic motivations, his liberal and political character that has always influenced his repertoire.
The Heart Beat program also includes the return of Doclisboa to Lux Frágil, having screened there in 2012 LCD Soundsystem's film Shut up and play the Hits. This year, October 31st,festival will screen The Stone Roses: Made of Stones, directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, Dead Man's Shoes). The film incorporates ‘previously unseen material spanning The Stone Roses' history', and ‘the personal experiences of many who were touched by the band and their music.'

Other highlights: Mistaken for Strangers, directed by Tom
Berninger, brother of The National frontman Matt Berninger; and Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer, by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, a documentary about the trial of feminist punk rock band members.
From Angola: I Love Kuduro and Death Metal Angola. The first one, directed by Mário Patrocínio, portrays the movement born in Luanda during the Civil War that is shaping the birth of a new urban culture in Africa. Death Metal Angola, directed by American director Jeremy Xido, shows us how Angola has become the epicentre of African metal.
Doclisboa will also pay tribute to the notorious North-American filmmaker Les Blank, who passed away in April 2013 at age 77, this session will feature Dizzy Gillespie, The Blues Accordin' to Lightin' Hopkins and Chulas Fronteras.
Overall, the Heart Beat section gathers 17 films that will be screened at Culturgest, Cinema São Jorge and Cinema City Alvalade.

Will be shown excerpts from each film and delivered files with pedagogical suggestions, according to each grade and teaching area. Book your place now!

For reservations: servico.educativo@doclisboa.org | m. +351 965155725

Pays Barbare will open the 11th Doclisboa - International Film Festival on Thursday 24 October, 9 pm, at Culturgest, Lisbon. Directed by Milano-based duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, both of whom are confirmed to attend the festival and present the film in the opening session.

The film chronicles, through re-edited archives, the Italian colonial conquest in Ethiopia and the subjugating mechanisms during the dictatorial rule of Mussolini. Pays Barbare emerges as a political act, appealing to memory and reflection, and to recognise that we face a form of fascism that is quietly produced each season.

The closing session of this year's edition is going to show Manuscripts don't Burn, by Iranian dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof, to be held on Saturday 2 November. 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. The film is a brave and lucid gesture, and another incendiary critique of the Iranian regime.

The festival will also feature films of other two Iranian banned directors, the exiled Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Jafar Panahi, sentenced to six-year house arrest and 20-year ban on making films.