This retrospective section is dedicated to those who work in favour of a cinema which is totally free from pre-judgements and prejudice, free from the big industry and autistic markets, and above all, free from the need of immediate results.

Past IndieLisboa honorees include Sundance Film Festival, in 2004; Argentinean independent cinema and Chinese cineast Jia Zhangke, in 2005.

This year, IndieLisboa will pay tribute to directors Michael Glawogger, Jay Rosenblatt, Nobuhiro Suwa and Edgar Pêra

Acclaimed Austrian filmmaker, Glawogger is the author of extraordinary documentary films such as the stunning “Megacities” or his latest epic “Workingman’s Death”, a provocative presentation of extreme labour worldwide. Poetic and sensitive, Michael Glawogger stands out for his unique style. The festival will organize a retrospective of his entire work, in which will be possible to see not only his documentaries and features, but also his short films.

Intelligent, insightful, analytical, lyrical and surreal. These are some of the basic features which can describe Jay Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt’s remarkable work are mostly black-and-white experimental short films weave together from historical, archival footage and educational films of the post-War era, and a collection of disturbing reflections of society and its politics.
Notice that Rosenblatt’s “Phantom Limb” was awarded in IndieLisboa last year’s edition.

Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Suwa is the Eastern heir of European cinema. If “H Story” unbashfuly courtships Resnais’ “Hiroshima, Mon Amour”, his fourth and latest feature film, “Un Couple Parfait”, evokes Antonioni, in a painful portrait of a dying relationship, featuring the dazzling Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Bruno Todeschini. His films were not released in Portugal, so Portuguese audiences will have the chance to meet his ravishing work.

Finally, Edgar Pêra, a Portuguese filmmaker. He calls himself “Kamera Man” and “Mr. Ego”. He is unclassifiable. Uncompromising, outsider, an UFO in Portuguese cinema, Pêra is the author of a very rare, diverse, experimentalist, post-modern body of work. Truly one of a kind.