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IndieLisboa

18 April – 28 April 2013

No will open the 10th edition of IndieLisboa
No will open the 10th edition of IndieLisboa

The 10th edition of the festival will run from April 18 to 28. It will feature 245 films (80 features and 165 shorts. It will open with No and close with Before Midnight.

This year's festival will also feature a special focus on Ulrich Seidl. You can see the feature film line-up below

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Latest reviews

  • They Will Return
    Review preview for They Will Return

    Riding along on the strength of its central mystery, They Will Return just about gets away with its unevenly paced story and variable acting.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Two children are mysteriously abandoned by their parents.
  • Museum Hours
    Review preview for Museum Hours

    This goes on for more than two hours and will bore some viewers to death. Others, though, will find this quiet, complex film a fascinating piece of art in itself.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A museum attendant shows a Canadian visitor the sights of Vienna and in the process falls in love with it all over again.
  • Spring Breakers
    Review preview for Spring Breakers

    While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

    Neil Mitchell · 3 out of 5
    Four college students form an unlikely allegiance with a drug dealer.
  • Leviathan
    Review preview for Leviathan

    An awe-inspiring experience.

    Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
    A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
  • Paradise: Hope
    Review preview for Paradise: Hope

    Seidl manages to make this ordeal excruciating to watch without ever being graphic, visually or even narratively.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    A teenager from a troubled middle class background spends the summer at fat camp and determines to seduce its director.
  • Paradise: Faith
    Review preview for Paradise: Faith

    Seidl draws absurdity and hilarity from a narrative arrangement that is predictably and increasingly caustic.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    Second part of Seidl's trilogy sees a devout Catholic trying to cope with the return of her paraplegic husband.
  • Paradise: Love
    Review preview for Paradise: Love

    As the film progresses, Seidl allows scenes to play out longer than expected, as they enter that uncomfortable territory (for protagonists, audiences and censor boards alike) of total unpredictability.

    Michael Pattison · 3.5 out of 5
    A cautionary tale about European female sex tourists on the beaches of Kenya.
  • Models
    Review preview for Models

    All four actresses are excellent; forever chewing gum, Bartsch in particular is superb.

    Michael Pattison · 3.5 out of 5
    A portrait of a quartet of aspiring Viennese models.
  • Jesus, You Know
    Review preview for Jesus, You Know

    Seidl seems interested in these people precisely because they’re all too easily judged by others, even though their needs and desires are relatably ordinary.

    Michael Pattison · 3.5 out of 5
    The inhabitants of six different churches seek Heavenly help to solve their Earthly problems.
  • Animal Love
    Review preview for Animal Love

    Ulrich Seidl’s unique, stylised documentary depicts in trademark, single-take set-ups a number of Viennese residents and their relationships to their beloved pets.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    A documentary about people who turn to animals for companionship.

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