DOCLISBOA
Talking About Trees
SUDAN: Exploring the importance of cinema for democracy. [director: Suhaib Gasmelbari]
Heimat is a Space in Time
GERMANY: Thomas Heise voyages into mental and emotional fractures [director: Thomas Heise]
LATEST
Photographer of War
WAR REPORTER: Living a life in a state of emergency, renowned war photographer Jan Grarup work has taken him to conflict zones around the world, from Darfur to Mosul. [director: Boris B Bertram]
Marianne & Leonard
BIOGRAPHY: Nick Broomfield’s doc about the artist Leonard Cohen and his muse and girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, is a touching story of an extraordinary relationship. [director: Nick Broomfield]
Sheep Hero
CAPITALISM: As he tries to keep his own afloat, competition from big companies, cheap labour from the East, and smart machinery all make life increasingly difficult for one Dutch shepherd. [director: Ton van Zantvoort]
Kabul, City in the Wind
CONFLICT: In the capital of a country that only seems to get international attention when suicide bombs claims lives, director Aboozar Amini offers a fly on the wall glimpse into life as the locals live it. [director: Aboozar Amini]
In Mansourah You Separated Us
COLONIALSM: A painful voyage back to the silenced Algerian War of Independence [director: Dorothée-Myriam Kellou]
The Panama Papers
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter's behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller. [director: Alex Winter]
African Mirror
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new. [director: Mischa Hedinger]
Looking For Life
IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people. [director: Sam Ellison]
The Book of the Sea
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen. [director: Aleksei Vakhrushev]
The Sea of Shadows
ECOLOGY: The making of this film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and a rare species of mini whales. [director: Richard Ladkani]
The Serengeti Rules
NATURE: The Serengeti Rules uncover the self-regulating mechanisms in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, and shows how carnivores can play a crucial role – from the top down. [director: Nicholas Brown]
Permanent Record
CONTROL: In his memoir, Edward Snowden reveals how he helped build the mass surveillance system and what his motivations were to bring it down [author: Edward Snowden]
Mediascapes
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape. [author: Ivan Bargna]
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism
MEDIA: Analyzing contemporary social media practices likes fake news, Geert Lovink looks toward a possible end to «platform nihilism». [author: Geert Lovink]
The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
MEDIA: Author Jay David Bolter provides a comprehensive description of contemporary digital culture where digital technologies facilitate and shape the creation of many diverse communities of participation. [author: Jay David Bolter]
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