Doclisboa 2024: Three French-speaking Belgian Documentaries in Competition!
"Under Fire", "Tales from the Source" and "Crushed" will compete in the 22nd edition of the Portuguese festival!
Doclisboa is one of the leading film festivals in Portugal. Organized by Apordoc, an association that particularly promotes documentaries, it presents a selection of the best recent documentaries in an ambitious program that includes significant retrospectives and acclaimed filmmakers. The festival takes place annually at the end of October.
The documentary Under Fire by Jérémie Lamouroux will have its world premiere in the competitive Green Years section of the 22nd edition of Doclisboa. The film is produced by AJC!.
Bilel is enjoying one last summer of adolescence with his friends. They are all sons of factory workers. Their fathers work at the silicon plant, where the furnace fires burn continuously. The light there gives life and illuminates, but also burns, wounds, and kills. Will Bilel escape the fate of the previous generations?
In the International Competition, making its international debut, is Tales from de Source by Léonard Pongo, produced by Twenty Nine Studio & Production and Atelier Graphoui. The film will also compete at DOK Leipzig 2024.
Tales from the Source offers a gaze on the landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo to translate a sense of its unfathomable power, diversity and knowledge. The scenery is presented as a character acting as a living entity and inhabited by the symbolism of Congolese traditions. The visual approach borrows techniques from multispectral imaging, resulting in an otherworldly experience with surreal lights and colour. Combined with an original musical composition by Bear Bones, Lay Low, we enter into a sensory dialogue with the landscape, an intelligent, ageless being in constant transformation that challenges our perception.
Lastly, the short film Crushed by Camille Vigny, produced by Dérives, is selected for the Doc Alliance competition. The film was previously selected at Visions du Réel 2024 and will be in competition at DOK Leipzig 2024.
Summer is the stock-car season. Cars gear up for a long day of racing that will end in their total demolition. As I reminisce offstage about the violent summer of my 18th year, recounting the man who slowly kills me inside, the cars become unrecognizable, akin to a group of smoking yet heroic carcasses.
We also highlight the presence of French-speaking Belgian co-productions: The Anchor by Jen Debauche (Atelier Graphoui, International Competition) and Peaches Goes Bananas by Marie Losier (Michigan Films, Heart Beat).
The festival will take place from October 17 to 27, 2024.
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