Doclisboa
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Ghost Elephants
NATURE: With Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog creates another work within his transgressive anthropology.
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The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
GENDER: Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.
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Doclisboa 2025 announces opening/closing films and first program highlights
The 23rd edition of #Doclisboa runs 16–26 October 2025. The festival opens with With Hasan in Gaza, by Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari. Edited from footage shot in 2001—when Aljafari and Hasan Elboubou searched for Abdel Rahim, with whom Aljafari was imprisoned in #Gaza in 1989—the film is presented as a road movie set in a territory…
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The Tree of Authenticity
ECOLOGY: Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.
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Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march
CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa's «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today's documentaries for social change.
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Doclisboa 2023: the complete winners
The curtain is about to close on the 21st edition of #Doclisboa, but not before honouring the best in documentary cinema. This year, the festival was not just about films; it also featured a series of activities, debates, and parties that once again made #Lisbon a global gathering spot for documentary enthusiasts in October. Doclisboa…
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The myth of Melusina reimagined
IDENTITY: Delve into the complex identities formed by Luxembourg's immigrant youth
