Doclisboa has announced a cross-arts lineup linking cinema with pop and performance. In «Heart Beat», Stéphane Ghez’s Welcome to Lynchland receives a national premiere, surveying David Lynch’s pop-surrealist practice with long-time collaborators. Lynch returns with Duran Duran Unstaged, a concert film of the Los Angeles show. Alison Ellwood’s Boy George & Culture Club offers an intimate New Romantic portrait. Michael Ogden’s Becoming Madonna uses unseen material to chart the Michigan outsider’s rise. Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley—also a national premiere—reconstructs the singer’s brief career from private archives.
Portuguese titles probe memory and place. Diogo Varela Silva’s Punch for Punch profiles Orlando Jesus, a 1970s boxer who became a symbol of a tougher, marginalised Lisbon. In Pele Nómada, João Fiadeiro and Aline Belfort follow the RE.AL studio’s move to Serralves, asking how sites retain—or lose—art’s traces. Joana Botelho’s It Was Dark Inside the Wolf accompanies actor Sara Carinhas through family recollections and creative play toward Última Memória.
Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ One to One: John & Yoko examines their collaboration around Lennon’s One to One charity concert—his only full post-Beatles show—using rare calls, home movies, and remastered footage.
Marking Luciano Berio’s centenary, four seldom-seen films link sound and image: Nico D’Alessandria’s Il canto d’amore di Prufrock, Emile Degelin’s Sirènes, Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo’s The Colours of Light, and Frank Scheffer’s Voyage to Cythera.
In «From the Earth to the Moon», Lucrecia Martel’s Landmarks follows an Indigenous community’s struggle for justice after the 2009 killing of Javier Chocobar; Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants tracks explorer Steve Boyes and Namibian trackers seeking Angola’s elusive herd; and Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-up profiles Pulitzer winner #Seymour Hersh#. The program also restores Luiz Gobern Lopes’s The Revolutionary Brigades in the Fight Against the Dictatorship (1970–1974). Together, the selections map art’s dialogue across #music, #memory, and #political history# at docliosboa, running 16 – 26 October 2025.
