Doclisboa seeks to imagine reality through new cinematic forms of perception, reflection and action, placing filmmaking into dialogue with its history to question the present of cinema. Doclisboa is interested in films that are rigorous about their conceptual and formal implications; films that experiment with cinema’s artistic and political possibilities and refuse to be categorized; films that engage with and mirror the complexity of the world. Doclisboa offers a ground where cinema and the contemporary are investigated as acts of being together in, and with, time.

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Altas Cidades de Ossadas

High Cities of Bone

João Salaviza

2017 • Portugal • 19’

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated. Nights of vigil are spent under a sweltering tropical heat. Among the sugarcanes, a whisper is heard. Karlon hasn’t stopped singing. Altas Cidades de Ossadas is a probing and imaginative exploration of Karlon’s memories, institutional entrapment, and submerged stories from a dark time.

Screened with

19-10-2019
21:00 • AP • 83’

Cinema São Jorge

Sala 3