The entire Schiller family reunites on a spring Sunday to drink sparkling wine, eat cake, smoke cigars and recite poetry. The gruff warmth of a Swabian clan, deeply connected to its roots, unfolds as a reflection on family ties and evanescence of life.
Screened with: Distant Water | Traces, Fragments, Roots
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.