Das einzige portugiesische, wettbewerbliche Festival, das sich einzig Dokumentationsfilmen (in englischer und portugiesischer Sprache) widmet, wird nach Lissabon das Beste moderner nationaler und internationaler Produktionen bringen.

Ein intensives Programm mit verschiedenen Bereichen, Master-Klassen und ergänzenden Aktivitäten.

The entire world will fit in Lisbon at the latest edition of DocLisboa, which brings to the citys screens the very best of what the seventh art has to offer globally.

The Heart Beat section, symbolising the pulsating heart of cinema, features such films as Ospina Cali Colombia by Jorge de Carvalho, Joan Baez I Am Noise by Karen O’Connor, Maeve O’Boyle and Miri Navaski, Nôs Dança by Rui Lopes da Silva, Creature by Asif Kapadia and Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV by Amanda Kim.

There are five other highlights in the section from the Land to the Moon (Da Terra à Lua) that offer a unique, rhythmic and varied landscape, spanning dance, literature, music, culinary pleasures, stage performances and the deep green jungle.

These include such works as An Owl, A Garden & The Writer by Sara Dolotadabi, A Câmara by Cristiane Bernardes and Tiago Aragão, L’amitié by Alain Cavalier and Menus Plaisirs - Les Troigros by Frederick Wiseman.

There are also two retrospectives worth watching, one dedicated to American cinema from the New Deal era and another featuring films by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio.

From 19th to 29th October, Culturgest, Rua Arco do Cego (metro: Campo Pequeno), Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Av. da Liberdade (metro: Avenida) and Cinema Ideal, Rua do Loreto, 15 (trams: 24E and 28E). Tickets: 4 euros, general.