Balagan tells a story of hope: An Orthodox Jewish actor, the daughter of a survivor of the concentration camps and a Palestinian are working together on a stage play about the presence of the Holocaust in today’s Israeli society.
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.