LEFFEST | Lisboa Film Festival'23

EL MEJOR CINE MUNDIAL Grandes artistas, directores, actores, escritores e intelectuales se darán cita una vez más en la capital portuguesa para el Lisboa Film Festival.

Aparte de garantizar una rigurosa selección de películas, el festival también ofrece al público una variada programación de conciertos, espectáculos de baile, lecturas y encuentros, que permiten la reflexión y la discusión sobre temas que marcan la actualidad.
 

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LEFFEST 2023

From the 10th to the 19th of November of 2023, LEFFEST returns to yet another edition full of surprises. Centred in Lisbon, the festival is decentred within the city, being present in various districts and different spaces. The Cine-Teatro Turim (in Benfica), Academia das Ciências, Sinel de Cordes Palace, Trienal de Arquitetura, Galeria Imago Lisboa are the venues that will give another dimension to this festival, in addition to our classics Cinema Nimas e Teatro Tivoli BBVA.

The opening film will be Poor Things, by Yorgos Lanthimos, winner of the Venice Film Festival. LEFFEST - Lisboa Film Festival will also present, in their Portuguese premiere, the winning films from Cannes (Anatomie d'une chute / Anatomy of a Fall, by French filmmaker Justine Triet - the festival will show the other films from the director's path to the Palme d'Or), Locarno (Critical Zone, by Iranian filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh) and San Sebastián (The Horn of the Rye, by Jaione Camborda) festivals.

The festival's official competition features 10 films, and this selection will count on a jury chaired by director Elia Suleiman, and which will also include actress and director Fanny Ardant, musician and composer Nitin Sawhney, writers Rachel Kushner and Giorgi Gospodinov, director and photographer Khalik Allah, and artist Adriana Molder.

The festival also presents an Official Out of Competition selection, the most eagerly awaited previews and a new competitive section, Discoveries, which will give recognition to first and second works, through the TAP Revelation Award.

The inevitable special program on artificial intelligence and creation will include, in addition to a series of discussions starting with a conversation with Laurie Anderson, a selection of films followed by debates, concerts by violinist and maestro Gidon Kremer and Japanese composer and pianist Keiichiro Shibuya, who shares the stage with a singing Android, built from Artificial Intelligence.
We will have the pleasure of attending a masterclass by Leos Carax, Cristi Puiu, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Two exhibitions, one based on Godard's work and one other by the artist Khalik Allah - shown for the first time in Portugal.
Tributes to the work of Clint Eastwood and Pedro Costa, retrospectives of the work of Justine Triet, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and many other surprises.