A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, author of the first law legalising abortion in France, first president of the European Parliament, the life of Simone Veil is exemplary: an intimate portrait of a great lady.
Doclisboa wants to question the present of film, bringing along its history and assuming cinema as a mode of freedom. By refusing the categorization of film practice, it searches for the new problematics that cinematic image implies, in its multiple ways of engagement with the contemporary.
Doclisboa tries to be a place to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
