Every year in the second half of October, doclisboa previews the best documentaries of the last season and brings together a series of non-competitive programmes, including a retrospective of an internationally acclaimed author.

Doclisboa enlivens Lisbon's cinemas with the presentation of a large number of films, many of them unreleased in Portugal.

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Doclisboa - International Film Festival - is back from October 15 to 25. Nearly two hundred films will be screened as part of an original and diverse program at Culturgest, Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Cinema Ideal.

The festival opens with Guerrilha no Asfalto, by Edgar Pêra, and closes with Thanks For Coming by Alain Cavalier; in between, the program features works that confront the present and revisit the past.

Films by Juliette Binoche, Laura Poitras, Jia Zhangke, Patricio Guzmán, and Mariano Llinás; others about Eric Cantona, Siri Hustvedt, Pina Bausch, Nino Rotta, Maria Velho da Costa, and Armando Silva Carvalho, the batuku of Cape Verde, Harlem, or the life of Muhammad Ali - all waiting to be discovered.

Also noteworthy are the talks and roundtables (free admission), Portuguese and International competitions, and the retrospective dedicated to Filipino director Lino Brocka.

All information is available at doclisboa.org.
In October, the whole world fits into Lisbon.