Mozambique: Portraits of a Country in Struggle
Two documentaries presented at Doclisboa offer a broad portrait of Mozambique from its independence in 1975 to the present day.…
Sightlines
Places in a World Out of Place
Echoes of the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine run through three auteur films presented at Doclisboa, each shaped…
The Remotes: Who Controls Your Self?
Doclisboa’s understanding of “fictions of the real” has become so broad that it even encompasses science fiction. The Remotes, by…
Deconstructing Jair Bolsonaro, a President in Low Resolution
Two elections could decisively shape the state of the world in 2027. This Sunday, Brazil holds its presidential run-off between…
Body of Glass: Knots and Ties
Immediately after Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pedro Almodóvar released Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in…
Cinema for a Cause and the Cause of Cinema: 10 points on NAZA
Much has already been written about NAZA, by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, a film that has become…
The World Is a Less-Than-Ideal Place for a Girl to Grow Up
Kamila Serwicka’s Blossoming and Camille Bildsøe’s If Luck Will Come approach growing up under oppression from opposite sides of the…
Why The Critics Give Us Hope for the Future of Cinema
No, this is not some shameless exercise in self-congratulation on behalf of the critic’s profession. Critics play an indispensable role…
The Ungrateful Tenant vs. Snapshot: Playing with the Classics
Two films from distant parts of the world pay tribute to cinema’s own history, reviving languages or formats from the…
Mandrakizay Doria: A Quest for Seduction Across Time
With Mandrakizay Doria (À tout jamais) (2026), Malagasy filmmaker Franco Clerc makes an ambitious feature debut that combines romance, fantasy…