The Doclisboa ‘Archives of the Time Being’ programme, scheduled for presentation in theatres 4 -10 February has been postponed. It was to be the fifth of six festival ‘moments’ within the festival’s reconfigured 2020/21 edition.
An online cycle of films from previous festival ‘moments’ will instead run 18 Feb – 3 March. “As soon as the context allows it, Doclisboa will return to the cinema,” organisers underline.
The full Doclisboa statement, released 29 January, reads:
“Following the announcement of the renewal of the current lockdown in Portugal, and in view of the evolution of the epidemiological situation, Doclisboa will postpone the fifth moment of the festival, ‘Archives of the Time Being’, which was previously scheduled from 4 -10 February, at Culturgest and Cinema Ideal.
“While we wait to return to the theaters, and because Doclisboa remains committed to facilitating an attentive look at, and debate around, cinema, the festival today announces an online cycle of films and conversations that will be built from the previously announced programme of January and February’s moments. From 18 February to 3 March, this online programme will be available to the public in Portugal through the festival’s official page, doclisboa.org.
“Between 18 and 24 February, seven sessions will be presented from ‘So Many Stories Left Untold’, a line of programming that seeks to rescue invisible moments from our collective past, including: Radio Silence (Juliana Fanjul), Numbers (Oleg Sentsov), The Exit of the Trains (Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă) and Downstream to Kinshasa (Dieudo Hamadi).
“From 25 February to 3 March, seven sessions from the ‘Archives of the Present’ programme will be available, showcasing a diversity of contemporary views that offer insights towards our complex past and future. This selection will include the film Race Antenna (Paloma Rocha and Luís Abramo), which departs from Glauber Rocha’s cinema to discuss Brazilian reality today, as well as The Filmmaker’s House (Marc Isaacs), in which human relations overlap borders and geographies.
“Alongside this cycle, daily debates will be held with the directors of each session, exclusive to ticket holders, in order to extend a dialogue between the public and the films. The first debate is scheduled for 18 February, at 9pm, with Juliana Fanjul, director of Radio Silence.
“As soon as the context allows it, Doclisboa will return to the cinema. But until then, the festival will continue to work on new possibilities for action and encounter between the public, films, and their authors.”
