starts today the 13th edition of IndieLisboa, a festival that in recent years has been assumed as one of the most influential national competitions. In this new year, the exhibition of independent cinema will continue to focus on the latest cinematic panorama, as well as their heroes. In this aspect, the next IndieLisboa will have as prominent a complete retrospective to the work of Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. The c7nema spoke with the director and programmer Nuno Sena on schedule, beginning curiously by pointing out this “interesting author of the contemporary cinema”.
A schedule under the sign of Verhoeven and Macaigne
the tribute and full retrospective of Dutch filmmaker “ was a birth started for some time ,” said the director. Sena added that with a movie its programming Cannes, this set of 17 sessions (16 long and a session composed of all its short) can be seen as a “ perfect time to revisit the author” .
Ensuring that this proposal had only been reproduced “ to date by the French Cinematheque ” Paul Verhoeven will be at IndieLisboa, the result of a “ critical reappraisal” . Knowing that was a filmmaker who obtained a “ great popularity ” and that fell by the wayside as a result of its US flop Showgirls, a movie that is currently discussed and even defended by the greats of cinema, as the recently deceased filmmaker and critic Jacques Rivette, and the previous Hero INDIELISBOA Independent, Mia Hansen-Løve.
Paul Verhoeven
the general public, perhaps, recognize the director thanks to his popular works in Robocop (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992) . The c7nema recommends the reader a peek at its Dutch stage as Turkish Delight (1973) and Flesh + Blood (1985) as priorities, and still return to that your home country with the spy story set in World War II, the Black Book (2006) .
Unlike Verhoeven, which needs no introduction, Vincent Macaigne a young actor, director, screenwriter and director (having already signed two films), is a “ enormous talent that needed to be presented to the Portuguese public .” With more than 40 years and a career consists of little more than 30 films, Macaigne “ was sponsored by a number of young French filmmakers.” But the actor also sponsored young “talents that he regarded as being part of a family, a community that is moving in the current French cinema “, such as Louis Garrel, which opens up behind the cameras Les Deux Amis, a film that is integrated in this retrospective.
Vincent Macaigne
Nuno Sena believes in the importance of this Independent Hero, and the urgency of this cycle between the public since Macaigne “, or if not, one of the greatest contemporary French actors .” IndieLisboa is proud to bring the actor to Lisbon, which in addition to its interventions during the films, will introduce and coordinate a conference with a “ title at least provocative ” – For a Political Actors – which will aim to how a “ actor and an author can match the creativity of film .” According to Sena, “ he’s an actor, not leaving it to be a co-author of the movies that come in. Their influence on the films participating is far from quoting the issue of representation, but feels that there is a overflowing energy that ultimately influence in many aspects to creating a movie . “
a growing festival
Since its first edition in 2004, IndieLisboa has been growing gradually, and the result is noted in what is now presented. Nuno Sena recalled that in its first year, the festival featured 500 films entered, having been 100 selected. At the time, “ Indie was a small festival, with only three rooms. .” The growth rate stabilized at around 4 or 5 years (with a selection that was around 240/250 films). For the director, this 13th edition is considerably higher in your show, very secondary to special segments short.
As for the selection criteria, contrary to what you think, there is no “ formula or guide to the picker IndieLisboa, what is a group of people that has a closeness and affinity in your movie viewing. But also some diversity . ” Nuno Sena also said the selection process as “a consensus entourage to what seems more important, more essential and identify with the project, which is essentially around an idea first new film . “
” we believe that cinema still has new things to offer “bet the director also added that these” proposals may be based on the last film but bring something new. “
the challenges of Portuguese Cinema, the constant battle!
Charts war
One of the main concerns of IndieLisboa is the national team. However, Nuno Sena said that this task had been difficult, recalling the almost austere times 2004 and stressing that the coming digital facilitated “ many production economies .” Currently, the “ array of choices is wider “, with nearly 40 films selected from 100 entries, corresponding to short and feature films.
For the director, there two types of productions that we can find in INDIELISBOA programming: the low-budget, where “the desire to make cinema” is raised, as the entered film school in Novíssimos section, and most productions ambition as the War Letters of Ivo Ferreira, who is the film’s protagonist April 25.
“Indie is a theater space, they all must have a strong identity of its authors, “ hit Sena, ” bringing anything while their formal and aesthetic assumptions make us believe beyond a recipe or formula. Choose Portuguese cinema is more delicate because it involves that the festival work for some directors as a first showcase of their work. it can even contribute to these movies have a stronger national and international career. “
the veteran Portuguese filmmaker João Botelho, will be present in Indie rooms with an intimate cinematic tribute to one of the masters of National and World cinema, Manoel de Oliveira, who left us last year. A film brought this dedication, but unfortunately in great grief, for a man who owes his art to this “ parent ” of our cinema. The cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and I, is one of c7nema recommendations.
The music is still present in Indie!
As usual, the heart Festival continues in musical chords with IndieMusic section. This year, the big news out in Sonita of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, who won two major awards at Sundance (Jury and Audience World Cinema section). An Iranian, Swiss and German co-production that meets the young Sonita, an Afghan illegal immigrant who lives in the suburbs of Tehran and dreaming to be the future “Rihanna”, however, the family, ultra-conservative, has other plans for . the girl
Miss Sharon Jones, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, is the picture of a fight for the survival of singer Sharon Jones, the late queen of R & B band the Dap-King. It is said even the return of Amy Berg ( Deliver us From Evil ), a meeting with another queen, this time to rock and roll in Janis: The Little Girl Blue .
the Hellmouth, another year of life!
Love Gaspar Noé
The latest novelty of IndieLisboa shows in this second year of longevity, strong signs of vitality. A born section through the frustration of its programmers were faced with some movies that did not fit in the already formed program. Nuno Sena, “ are movies playing against the expectations of the viewer, provocative films, the way break or deconstruct film genres.”
Another reason for the creation of Mouth hell derived from the desire to bring the tradition of worship sessions midnight, present in numerous world festivals, including Toronto, which bring with them a list of genre cinema, or terror. The stage of IndieLisboa, was to bet these said formulas and put your “Indie brand” .
According to the director, with this space can “work records are not pactuáveis in other sections of the festival. no longer being films that sabotage, rebuild or reshape general questions. if this year is not expected course a festival pass porn movies, but Love Gaspar Noé works this taboo mainstream film which is the representation of sex and explicit on the screen. it’s a film that fits perfectly in this section [Mouth of Hell]. “
Among the novelties of this year has become a special session has resurrected a Lisbon tradition which however vanished. This is the movie marathons. In Hellmouth is scheduled a continuous cycle that starts at eleven, ending at six in the morning, enjoying the inviting space and private Cinema Ideal for an expected party atmosphere. During this allusion, Nuno Sena recalled the annual marathon of the Quartet Cinema in the 80s and the festive atmosphere at the time accommodated hundreds of moviegoers.
The daily shot La Californie of Charles Redon, was one of the recommendations left by the director in this space. In this film, the director records its history and its intimate life with his wife to Mathilde Froustey (who is a dancer). This is a work in which the “ viewer suspicious always of what’s to see and the filmed diary becomes the step taken in anything else. A fiction with biography of the director ” reaffirms Nuno Sena.
guests
Jean-Gabriel Périot
” the presence of the most anticipated of all is still open “, he assured us Nuno Sena against Paul Verhoeven. Their eventual coming to Lisbon may coincide with preparations for his next film, Elle, which will be in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. But Vincent Macaigne is confirmed, as well as Jean-Gabriel Périot, who won the public the previous edition of Indie with its feature film, Une Jeunesse Allemande .
Périot will Looking back target on Focus Silvestre section, in order to demonstrate to the inattentive viewer that this director “ not born yesterday “, compiling their previous works and short films as well show their modus operandi. Their arduous task scour the found footage in order to “ show images of the past to illuminate the present. ” For Nuno Sena, the Périot film triggers debate as the “ political and social conditions of contemporary society from the images recorded last .”
the director also revealed to c7nema confirmation Petra Costa, the Brazilian documentary filmmaker who has triumphed with its ambition to join the documentary and fiction in favor of extreme intimacy. The Olmo and Seagull , your new work, which was first presented last Festival of Locarno, bet a docuficional and experimental drama of an actress who after an unexpected pregnancy, is faced with the disintegration of his artistic career. Costa will present the film in Portugal (which already has commercial debut), alongside his co-director Lea Globb and actors, as well as the child who motivated the creation of this film.
The 13th edition IndieLisboa, is between April 20 and May 1 at Culturgest in Portuguese Cinematheque, Cinema São Jorge Cinema and Ideal.
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