Very Portuguese cinema at Indie Lisboa – Daily News – Lisbon

Retrospective Paul Verhoeven brand festival returns to April 20

Among the 289 films scheduled for the festival independent film IndieLisboa in April, there will be a retrospective of Paul Verhoeven, 40 Portuguese films and the return of several filmmakers, said the organization.

one month before the opening of the 13th IndieLisboa, the organization today introduced program, which is “a portrait of the independent film year with a lot of unprecedented production, particularly in the Portuguese cinema”, as described Nuno Sena.

Among the 4,500 screened films, it was possible to “find a common thread in gigantic contemporary production, “he said.

After being retrospectives target, the US director Whit Stillman and French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love again have prominence in IndieLisboa, with the opening honors and closing . festival

Whit Stillman will be in Lisbon to present at the opening, the movie “ Love & amp; Friendship , from a story of Jane Austen. IndieLisboa end with L ‘avenir , which won this year Mia Hansen-Love the prize in Berlin for best achievement.

The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven will be one of the honorees this year at the festival, the “Independent Hero” section, where there will be chance to know comprehensively a filmography beyond the known fatal Instinct or Robocop .

Paul Verhoeven was chosen “for copyright reasons, for an idea of ​​film that resists external pressures,” said Nuno Sena.

Another “independent hero” and that will be present at IndieLisboa will be French actor and director Vincent Macaigne. returning will be also Jean-Gabriel Périot filmmaker in focus on “Silvestre” section.

Among the nearly 300 films selected, 40 are Portuguese, most world premiere. of these 40, ten are feature films, including Treblinka , Sergio Tréfaut, war Letters , Ivo M. Ferreira, “the cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and I,” of João Botelho, and Operation Angola:. Escape to fight , Diana Andringa

“It’s an issue with a distinctly Portuguese nature,” said Nuno Sena

international competition has several Portuguese films: Olmo and gull , Petra Costa and Lea Glob, Ballad of a batrachian , Leonor Teles, Ascension , Pedro Peralta, Viktoria , Mónica Lima, and nagging me would die so joveeeeem … , animation Filipe Abranches.

In the “Indie Music” will be films about Janis Joplin, Sharon Jones, on Parkinsons Portuguese. It will also be shown “tonic key” new incursion of Eduardo Morais by Portuguese music.

Set to take place between April 20 and May 1 at Culturgest, São Jorge, Cinematheque and Film Ideal, 13th IndieLisboa has about one million euros budget, similar to 2015.