Coup d'envoi de la 22e édition de Doclisboa cette semaine
par Teresa Vieira
- La première édition de l'événement dirigée par Paula Astorga présentera 183 films représentant 55 pays
Cet article est disponible en anglais.
Doclisboa kicks off this Thursday, running until 27 October at several locations in the city of Lisbon. The historical landmark of 50 years having elapsed since the Carnation Revolution will be the starting point for this edition, as the festival will screen the archival montage essay film Sempre [+lire aussi :
interview : Luciana Fina
fiche film] by Luciana Fina as its opening title. For its closing ceremony on 26 October, this year’s festival (marking the first edition to unspool under the directorship of Paula Astorga) will showcase André Novais Oliveira’s The Day I Met You.
As for the main competitive sections, this year, the International Competition includes 12 features, six of which will have their world premieres at the gathering, with five others having their international and one its European premiere. On this list, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France and Argentina are the best-represented countries. In terms of the Portuguese Competition, the majority of the selected films are enjoying either a Portuguese (five) or a world premiere (four), with one European premiere and three first features on a line-up that comprises a total of ten works. In the festival’s Green Years section, a space dedicated to new talents, there are 18 short films from 14 different countries in competition, including both film-school works and independent productions, besides a non-competitive focus on student works from ECAM.
The latest films by Anna Cornudella Castro (The Human Hibernation [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anna Cornudella
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fiche film]), Dane Komljen (The Garden Cadences), Daniel Hui (Small Hours of the Night), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (Demmin Cantos), Harmony Korine (Aggro Dr1ft) and Radu Jude (Eight Postcards from Utopia [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Jude et Christian Fer…
fiche film]) are just some of the many highlights in New Visions, a section that has long been associated with Augusto M Seabra, a key figure at the festival who passed away in early September this year. The event dedicates its 22nd edition to Seabra, and as part of its homage, it will revisit one of the first films that he programmed for New Visions back in 2007: Frank Beauvais’s Compilations, 12 instants d’amour non partagé, at a screening dubbed “Exordium”. This section also boasts Pierre Creton as the guest filmmaker (slash farmer), presenting a special programme.
The festival has two retrospectives this year: the most extensive international retrospective of Mexican filmmaker Paul Leduc, in collaboration with the Cinemateca Portuguesa and FICUNAM, entitled “A Dance to the Music of Time”; and “Back to the Future”, with works by helmers ranging from Manoel de Oliveira to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mohamed Zinet and Marguerite Duras.
The “From the Earth to the Moon” section comprises both past and contemporary works. One of the highlights is a screening of Here and Elsewhere by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Miéville, and The Palestinians by Johan van der Keuken: evidently, it’s a programme dedicated to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Restored prints of Brazilian filmmaker Olidon Lopez and Mexican director Arturo Ripstein will also be screened as a way to mark Audiovisual Heritage Day. Looking at the contemporary scene, this section includes the latest works by Oliver Stone and Rob Wilson (Lula), Sergei Loznitsa (The Invasion [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sergei Loznitsa
fiche film]), and Edgar Reitz and Jörg Adolph (Subject: Filmmaking). Also part of it is the 14-hour exergue – on documenta 14 by Dimitris Athridis, and two Portuguese flicks, For You, Portugal, I Swear! by Sofia da Palma Rodrigues and Diogo Cardoso, and Kora by Cláudia Varejão, amongst many other titles.
In the scope of its industry event, Nebulae, which sees Spain as its guest country this year, the festival will also host the tenth edition of Arché, APORDOC’s project-development space, which includes workshops, presentation sessions, one-on-one meetings and other activities. Twelve film projects and three research projects from Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay were selected from over 400 applications.
The festival’s full programme is available to peruse here.
(Traduit de l'anglais)
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