The film follows Ronald Reagan’s rivalry with the charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tracing how the Communicator-in-Chief overcame Soviet mistrust, the objections of a skeptical press corps, and the looming threat of WWIII.
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.
