Our verdict of IndieLisboa 2025: wee attended Portugal's favourite independent film festival for the first time, and we unearthed the dirty gems in loco exclusively for you; this is what we found [Read More...]
The fall of Portuguese dictator Salazar is seen through the eyes of his closest servants in this well-presented drama based on a true story - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
The Cape Verdean "Bob Marley" who died on the day he was about to record his first studio album becomes the subject of this simple and auspicious documentary - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Victims of domestic abuse seek protection in a women's shelter, in this warm and thoughtful, humanistic Portuguese drama - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Lesbian pornographer embarks on a road trip in search of inspiration, in this pointless and lame addition to the canon of identity movement cinema - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Portuguese documentarist retraces the footsteps of her Spanish mother, who was forced to immigrate to the USSR as a child - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
An actor is haunted by their character's ghost, in this metatextual dreamscape and comment on Portuguese history - from IndieLisboa, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian [Read More...]
Ugly suburban landscapes and a cacophony of cars provide a strange type of serenity to these suburban dwellers, in this elementary Portuguese film - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Portuguese documentarist captures the fast-changing seasons, the fleeting emotions and the developments shaping/reshaping the square where she works - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Quietly surfing the Weird Wave of Greek cinema, this Portuguese movie portrays a tightly-knit bourgeois family consumed by their bizarre fantasies - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
The latest edition of Portugal's favourite independent film festival takes place for 12 days in May; the people behind it reveal their dirty secrets (expect porn sci-fi and potentially audience bathers in the nude) [Read More...]
Charlie Shackleton turns his failed attempt to make a film about the Zodiac Killer into a witty scrutiny of the true crime genre - in cinemas on Friday, November 28th [Read More...]
Kahlil Joseph takes viewers on a dizzying, kaleidoscopic journey of Black history, in a movie straddling cinema and installation - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
Young people forge a sense of normalcy despite the looming war, in this documentary about life in Ukrainian schools - from the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
The director of Montparnasse Bienvenüe crafts a fractured study of a vulnerable young male under the pressure of fatherhood - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future - from various festivals [Read More...]
Cape Verdean woman abandons her baby daughter on a volcanic island, in this fiery tale of failed motherhood and reconnection - from Tiff Romania [Read More...]
A mostly lifeless Pamela Anderson stars in Gia Coppola's well-worn comment on ageism in the entertainment industry - on various VoD platforms on Monday, May 5th [Read More...]
Filthy old ghost haunts three women on various video devices - clever teen scream horror is a refreshing addition to the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]
Kiyoshi Kurosawa remakes his own child abduction and organ trafficking revenge thriller, this time on French soil... and he remains determined to tortured viewers - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Wang Bing's final entry in the trilogy of Chinese workers in the shortest instalment, at a "mere" 153 minutes of observational cinema - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
In this non-linear exploration of grief, two sisters stay true to their bond through good times and bad - Lithuanian drama shows at Tiff Romania [Read More...]
A woman haunted by her father's death and husband's adultery readies herself for the arrival of her daughter and sister - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
Deep dive into the loud routine of a large group of Chinese textile workers, in this highly observational, non-narrative documentary - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]
