The 2018 edition of Doclisboa presents its main sections: international and Portuguese competitions, New Visions, Heart Beat, From the Earth to the Moon and Green Years. It will also present a full retrospective of Colombian director Luis Ospina and a thematic focus called
“Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World”, a film programme that embraces a multiplicity of nationalities, directors and languages from the Euphrates region.
Doclisboa seeks to question the present of cinema, placing it in dialogue with its history and assuming filmmaking
as a form of freedom. Refusing the categorization of film practice, the festival searches for new complexities
within the cinematic image and its multiple forms of engagement with the contemporary. Doclisboa strives to be a
place in which to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
The festival will welcome audiences in several parallel activities, aiming at get them together with the talents invited: debates and Q&As after the films, roundtables, masterclasses with directors.
“Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World”, a film programme that embraces a multiplicity of nationalities, directors and languages from the Euphrates region.
Doclisboa seeks to question the present of cinema, placing it in dialogue with its history and assuming filmmaking
as a form of freedom. Refusing the categorization of film practice, the festival searches for new complexities
within the cinematic image and its multiple forms of engagement with the contemporary. Doclisboa strives to be a
place in which to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
The festival will welcome audiences in several parallel activities, aiming at get them together with the talents invited: debates and Q&As after the films, roundtables, masterclasses with directors.