Wang Bing, an essential Chinese filmmaker and a regular presence in Doclisboa’s programme, returns to the festival with Man in Black, the opening film of the 21st edition, scheduled for 19 October, 9pm, at Cinema São Jorge. Leonor Teles’ first feature-length fiction film, Baan is the closing film of Doclisboa’ 23 – and will have its Portuguese premiere on 29 October 29, 9pm, at Culturgest.
In Man In Black, Wang Bing – author of works such as Fathers and Sons (Doclisboa 2014) and Dead Souls (Doclisboa 2018) – portrays the body and soul of Wang Xilin, a Chinese composer and dissident. Using excerpts from Xilin’s symphonies, the filmmaker registers the horrors recalled by the octogenarian composer, stories of dehumanization in a country and a regime in permanent upheaval. Wang Xilin will be in Lisbon for the opening session of the 21st edition of the festival.
On 29 October, it’s Leonor Teles’ turn. Baan (“house” in Thai), the...
In Man In Black, Wang Bing – author of works such as Fathers and Sons (Doclisboa 2014) and Dead Souls (Doclisboa 2018) – portrays the body and soul of Wang Xilin, a Chinese composer and dissident. Using excerpts from Xilin’s symphonies, the filmmaker registers the horrors recalled by the octogenarian composer, stories of dehumanization in a country and a regime in permanent upheaval. Wang Xilin will be in Lisbon for the opening session of the 21st edition of the festival.
On 29 October, it’s Leonor Teles’ turn. Baan (“house” in Thai), the...
- 9/21/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Paula Gaitán in Memory of MemoryThe following interview was granted by filmmaker Paula Gaitán to curator Francis Vogner dos Reis at the request of Universo Produção in December 2020. It was originally published in the official catalogue of the 24th Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, Brazil in January 2021. It was translated into English by Christopher Small and Juliano Gomes in June 2021 for Sheffield DocFest to mark the premiere of Riverock (2020) at the festival, her leading role in the international competition jury, and the release of Paula Gaitán: Acid Portraits, an online DocFest retrospective of five of her films. Many of the ideas in that retrospective and in Gaitán's work as a whole spring up in the discussion: the tricky idea of portraiture; of an incremental, intuitive filmmaking process; of sound and music as a fundamental part of each work, and of memory itself as something not easily catalogued.The term "artistic...
- 7/18/2021
- MUBI
The Sheffield DocFest has unveiled its line-up for its 2021 programme that includes the World Premiere of the first instalment of Academy Award winner Steve McQueen’s new series for the BBC, ‘Uprising’.
For the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As. It also includes the previously announced Retrospective: Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.
The celebration of Black British screen culture – curated by guest curators including David Olusoga. Films of all lengths will all be presented as part of the retrospective including titles such as ‘Burning An Illusion’ by Menelik Shabazz, ‘It Ain’t Half Racist’, ‘Mum’ by Stuart Hall, ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien, ‘Second Coming’ by Debbie Tucker Green, ‘The Black Safari’ by Colin Luke, ‘Baby Mother...
For the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As. It also includes the previously announced Retrospective: Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.
The celebration of Black British screen culture – curated by guest curators including David Olusoga. Films of all lengths will all be presented as part of the retrospective including titles such as ‘Burning An Illusion’ by Menelik Shabazz, ‘It Ain’t Half Racist’, ‘Mum’ by Stuart Hall, ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien, ‘Second Coming’ by Debbie Tucker Green, ‘The Black Safari’ by Colin Luke, ‘Baby Mother...
- 5/17/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Programme was to include the world premiere of Joana Pontes’ ‘Visions Of The Empire’.
Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has postponed its latest event as the country prepares to enter a national lockdown following a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The Lisbon festival had reimagined its format in the wake of the outbreak and has been staging its latest edition across six smaller events since October, at a rate of one per month.
But the fourth “moment”, which was scheduled to take place from January 14-20, has been put on hold following a decision by the Portuguese government to put the...
Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has postponed its latest event as the country prepares to enter a national lockdown following a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The Lisbon festival had reimagined its format in the wake of the outbreak and has been staging its latest edition across six smaller events since October, at a rate of one per month.
But the fourth “moment”, which was scheduled to take place from January 14-20, has been put on hold following a decision by the Portuguese government to put the...
- 1/14/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Lisbon festival is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021.
The first part of the line-up of Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has been announced, with this year’s edition staged across six months and comprising 31 world premieres.
The Lisbon festival was due to take place in October but is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021. Screenings will take place in physical cinemas in Lisbon; while Nebulae, Doclisboa’s industry hub will run entirely online.
The first instalment, titled ‘Signals’, will run...
The first part of the line-up of Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has been announced, with this year’s edition staged across six months and comprising 31 world premieres.
The Lisbon festival was due to take place in October but is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021. Screenings will take place in physical cinemas in Lisbon; while Nebulae, Doclisboa’s industry hub will run entirely online.
The first instalment, titled ‘Signals’, will run...
- 10/13/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...
- 3/9/2020
- MUBI
Competition
“All the Dead Ones”
Caetano Godardo, Marco Dutra
Following up on their Locarno-prized “Good Manners,” genre auteur Dutra and Gotardo deliver a lushly turned-out family drama that converts ghostliness into political metaphor, conflating 1899 Sao Paulo with its high-rise present, asking if the uneasy relationship between Brazil’s white elite and black majority has essentially changed.
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Encounters
“Los Conductos”
Camilo Restrepo
Pinky, on the run from a sect, takes to squatting, making T-shirts for a living, taking drugs and spinning images of the Apocalypse, damnation, revenge. A spectral, crazed allegory of Colombian post-civil conflict reinsertion that won Mar del Plata’s 2019 Works in Progress.
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Panorama
“A Common Crime”
Francisco Márquez
Set in class-riven Argentina and packing, reportedly, a great finale and commanding performance from lead Elisa Carricajo as an Argentine university teacher who fails to help her maid’s son, with literally haunting consequences.
“All the Dead Ones”
Caetano Godardo, Marco Dutra
Following up on their Locarno-prized “Good Manners,” genre auteur Dutra and Gotardo deliver a lushly turned-out family drama that converts ghostliness into political metaphor, conflating 1899 Sao Paulo with its high-rise present, asking if the uneasy relationship between Brazil’s white elite and black majority has essentially changed.
Sales: Indie Sales
Encounters
“Los Conductos”
Camilo Restrepo
Pinky, on the run from a sect, takes to squatting, making T-shirts for a living, taking drugs and spinning images of the Apocalypse, damnation, revenge. A spectral, crazed allegory of Colombian post-civil conflict reinsertion that won Mar del Plata’s 2019 Works in Progress.
Sales: Best Friend Forever
Panorama
“A Common Crime”
Francisco Márquez
Set in class-riven Argentina and packing, reportedly, a great finale and commanding performance from lead Elisa Carricajo as an Argentine university teacher who fails to help her maid’s son, with literally haunting consequences.
- 2/21/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale continues to unveil its lineup, today announcing films selected for its Forum category: an independent section of the festival, organized by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, celebrating its 50th anniversary.
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
- 1/21/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
The strand’s 50th anniversary to open with a previously unfinished film by late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
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The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
- 1/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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