Cinema is a weapon and these films are proof of that. Indie Lisboa kicks off with more than 300 films, and we’ve selected those that approach environmental and social issues that will interest you.
This year IndieLisboa is once again taking over the São Jorge Cinema, Culturgest, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Cinema Ideal, as well as Cinema Fernando Lopes. There are five theaters where the world will pass through in the form of shorts, features, documentaries, in Portuguese or without borders.
Peggada has run through the list of more than 300 films and brings you five suggestions that touch on themes linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, from environmental to labor issues. Take note:
1. Pepe
Pepe, as he was nicknamed by the Colombian media, was the first and last hippopotamus to be killed in the Americas. This is how a story within a story within a story begins. The power of oral tradition is underlined in this film, in which our animal-narrator leads us, ghost-like, to think about the past and the beings who died without knowing their real circumstances.
Sessions:
. May 24th, 21h30 (123′), Culturgest
. May 27th, 21h45 (123′), Cinema Ideal
2. Monisme
This movie is a portrait of an ecosystem, which gives us the only necessary clue in the name: monism is the doctrine according to which all things that exist are part of a whole. That unifying point may be God, but here it’s a volcano. We are on the fiery mountain of Mount Merapi. Near recent eruptions, a story is rehearsed that unites different cinematic registers and a community that feels the volcano as a bonding link. A movie that can be emotionally challenging.
Sessions:
. May 25, 15h45 (115′), Culturgest
. May 30th, 16h30 (115′), Cinema São Jorge
3. Banzo
1907. Afonso restarts his life on a tropical African island as a plantation doctor, where he has to cure a group of servants “infected” by Banzo, the nostalgia of slaves. They die by the dozen, of starvation or suicide. For fear of contagion, the group is sent to a rainy hill surrounded by forest. There, Afonso tries to cure the servants, but their inability to understand what is going on in their souls proves to be stronger than all the solutions.
Sessions:
. May 28th, 21h30 (127′), Culturgest
. May 30th, 15h45 (127′), Culturgest
4. I’ve never been so close
In a changing rural suburb, farm machinery devastates the fields and places are haunted by an eternal gloom. From the flames, the bells that invoke the presence of the community are reborn.
Sessions:
. May 30th 19h (73′), Cinema São Jorge
. June 1st, 15h (73′), Culturgest
5. When the earth flees
Amidst the fog, in a labyrinth of time, where machines probe the geological depths of the mountain, a shepherd goes in search of a stray cow and childhood finds its way back. The mountain changes, the cycle continues.
Sessions:
. May 29th, 19h (82′), Culturgest
. May 31st, 21h45 (82′), Culturgest
Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.
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