In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is 67. Having suffered from Alzheimer’s for several years, and without treatment, she was sent back home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, who accompany her through her last days.
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.
