After the Russian annexation of Crimea, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was arrested by the Russian security service, charged with planned terrorist attacks, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Kurov reveals how anyone can become a victim of a ruthless state machine.
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.
