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11th Doclisboa kicks off today

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- Over 200 titles will screen in the next ten days in Lisbon. Joaquim Pinto, Gonzalo Tocha and Marco Martins are amongst the local directors presenting their latest works

11th Doclisboa kicks off today
The Mother and the Sea by Gonzalo Tocha

Doclisboa is back today for its 11th edition. Until November 3, Lisbon’s documentary film festival will present over 200 short and feature films; among them 42 first films, 46 local productions and 36 world premieres.

The international feature competition section will screen a selection of some of the most interesting documentaries of this year, among them Pippo Delbono’s Blood [+see also:
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(review), Avi Mograbi’s Once I Entered a Garden, Luca Magi’s Anita or Locarno winning title What Now? Remind Me [+see also:
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by Portuguese director Joaquim Pinto (review).

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The national feature competition includes the latest films by Gonçalo Tocha, The Mother and the Sea, Marco Martins, Twenty-One-Twelve The Day The World didn’t end, André Valentim Almeida, The Quest of Schooner Creoula, Miguel Moraes Cabral,Jorge’s Paths, Susana Nobre, Active Life, Margaridaz Leitao, Face to Face and Maria Clara Escobar, The Days with Him.

Curated by sociologist Augusto M. Seabra, sidebar section Riscos (Risks) will put under the spotlight 20 titles exploring the frontiers between documentary and fiction, while Heart Beat will explore the links between film, music and plastic arts.

Another section, Verdes Anos (lit. Green Years) will focus on productions made by film students, thus using the festival as a platform to introduce emerging talents to the already established audio-visual sector.

French director Alain Cavalier’s films will be the focus of a retrospective, organised in partnership with the Film Museum.

This year’s edition takes place in a moment of crisis and “fight for the defence of Portuguese cinema”, as the festival’s organisers pointed it out. It’s an edition that will also be remembered for the absence of the head of its jury, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who is forbidden to leave his country by the public authorities. His film Manuscripts don’t burn will however screen at the festival’s closing night.

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