The motto for this session is Quem é Bárbara Virgínia?, by Luísa Sequeira, on the first woman to direct a film in Portugal, in the 1940s, who was also the first Portuguese to compete with a film at Cannes, in 1946 – Três Dias sem Deus, of which 26 silent minutes are left. Aldeia dos Rapazes, about an institution providing foster care for children, opens the session.
Screened with: Aldeia dos Rapazes | Quem é Bárbara Virgínia?
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.
