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DocLisboa, 2025

DocLisboa International Documentary Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2025, programmes 4 films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:

Fernando Matos Silva

Fernando Matos Silva Fernando Matos Silva (b. 1940, Portugal) trained at the London School of Film Technique (1965-1968) and later served in the Army’s Cartographic Services (1969-1971). A founding member of the Centro Português de Cinema and the Cinequipa film cooperative, he directed and produced numerous films for both cinema and television.

Leonor Noivo

LEONOR NOIVO grew up in Macao. She came to Lisbon in the late 90s, where she studied architecture before joining Film School. She’d later study in Ateliers Varan, cinéma vérité school, which became a decisive artistic influence for her. Her films were screened and awarded in festivals around the world, like LOCARNO, ROTTERDAM, ZINEBI, FID …

Discover the First window films

Launched in 2019, First window is dedicated to documentary debuts and features short films of varying lengths, from young creators enrolled in art schools, university film programmes, filmmaking courses of any kind, or creating outside of any specific training environment. From 22 to 29 March, the thirteen films will be shown in theatres giving young …

Selection 2025 | ParisDOC Works-in-Progress

For its 12th edition, ParisDOC Works-in-Progress presents 6 feature-length documentary projects, French and international, at different stages of work, from editing to the end of post-production. Since 2014, Cinéma du réel has been inviting directors and producers to present their films in progress to festival programmers, VOD platforms and TV channels, sales agents, distributors and …

47th edition D-39: films in Competition

Running from 10 to 119 minutes, from China to Canada and from France to Suriname, the 37 films in Competition will once again showcase contemporary documentary in all its diversity, as world, international or French premieres. 1 RUE ANGARSKAIA by Rostislav KirpicenkoFrance, Ukraine | 69’ | World premiere ABOUT THE PINK COCOON by Binyu WangChina | 30’ | …

Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer (New York City, 1930 – 1999) was heavily involved in political activism as a college student, having worked first as a community organizer in Newark, and then as a reporter in Latin America. He helped to found Newsreel, an underground media collective which produced several films about radical political subjects and the anti-war movement. It was …

Philip Spinelli

Philip Spinelli was an american filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977), Hovering Over the Water (1986) and Eyes of Fire (1983).

Pedro de Filippis

Pedro de Filippis is a filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Rejeito is his debut feature and underlines his research on post-colonialism. He graduated from the European MFA program DocNomads, for which he directed short documentaries in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Pedro is an alumnus of the Points North Fellowship (2019), where Rejeito won the Special …

Paula Agostinho

Born in Luanda (Angola) in 1985, Paula Agostinho graduated in Performing Arts in 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), while taking piano and singing lessons. Back in Luanda in 2013, she became a producer at Geração 80, producing commercials, music videos and institutional videos.