Doclisboa
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Doclisboa announces full 2022 programme for 20th anniversary edition
From 6 to 12 October, #Doclisboa will take place in the usual venues of the festival around Lisbon. Now, the complete programme for this year’s edition has been announced. Celebrating 20 years in 2022, the festival has presented more than 3,500 films, including 548 world premieres, having welcomed an audience of more than half a…
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«We will never take for granted how wonderful it is to be able to be together, in person, in a cinema»
OPEN CITY: Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director María Palacios Cruz on the first post-pandemic edition, as well as her own introductions to creative documentaries and more.
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Doclisboa announces opening and closing sessions for 20th edition
In October, #Doclisboa celebrates 20 years and presents a special edition with the opening and closing sessions held simultaneously in the cities of #Lisbon (opening at Cinema São Jorge and closing at Culturgest) and #Porto (Cinema Trindade). The opening session will take place on 6 October, 2022 with the Portuguese premiere of North Terminal (dir.…
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The means to gaze into the fire
WAR: Confronting Serbia's wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.
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Doclisboa announces first titles for 20th edition
The first confirmed titles for the 20th #Doclisboa (6-16 October 2022) have been announced. The five titles make up part of the festival’s 5 films that take part of the «From the Earth to the Moon» and «Heart Beat» sections. Firstly, in «Heart Beat», will be Ronnie James Dio biography DIO: Dreamers Never Die (dir.…
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Woman as a Victim of the Afghan System
AFGHANISTAN: In 2021, Doclisboa dedicated one of its programme blocks to the topic of women in the patriarchal society of Afghanistan. While the two films screened, Orchestra from the Land of Silence (2020) and Oh Dear Sara (2021), differ in many ways, their chilling message takes on a particularly intense dimension given the current situation…
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The new age of climate activism
CLIMATE: Four young women of colour take the fight for a Green New Deal to Congress.
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