The 2020 edition of #Doclisboa takes place across six sessions, over six months, with the first one taking place between 22 October – 1 November. Now, the 18th edition of the documentary festival has announced information on the opening and closing sessions.

Opening the festival will be José Barahona’s Nheengatu – The Language of the Amazon. This event will take place in the presence of the filmmaker and be held at Lisbon’s Culturgest. Nheengatu – The Language of the Amazon takes viewers on a journey along the Negro River, on the trail of this language imposed on #indigenous people by the first Portuguese colonialists who landed in #Brazil in the 15th century.

The closing session will feature German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes. The film, which premiered at the #Berlinale, go through the director’s memories of the exuberant #Paris of the 60s, where she lived between 1962 and 1969, revealing the encounter with so many essential names of the most diverse artistic movements such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean Rouch and with the political issues that shaped that period.