Film of the day: AFTER (dir Anthony Lapia, 2023) Powerful, volatile drama juxtaposing communal hedonism and anti-establishment activism in surprisingly elliptic yet energetic style. #IndieLisboa #dance #drama #nightclub #discotheque #FrenchCinema #politics #onenightstand #gigeconomy

Film of the day: MISIÓN A MARTE (MISSION TO MARS, dir Amat Vallmajor del Pozo, 2022) The never ending story: playful no-budget comedy of family relationships disguised as post-apocalyptic neo-western, entirely shot on location like a homebound Ossang. #IndieLisboa #escineespañol #drama #comedy #family #location #scifi #pandemic

Film of the day: SOBRE LAS NUBES (OVER THE CLOUDS, dir María Aparício, 2022) The eclipse: clever, unhurried mosaic of unconnected lives in an Argentinian city, building a therapeutic, moving portrait of people and their relationships to each other and to their city. #IndieLisboa #escineargentino #drama #mosaic #family #theatre #art #comedy #unemployment #romance #bookstore

Film of the day: こちらあみ子 (AMIKO, dir Yusuke Morii, 2022) The wild child: lukewarm, gently despairing drama of disintegrating families as seen through the eyes of a stubborn, whimsical tomboy, well made but unremarkable. #IndieLisboa #JapaneseCinema #drama #family #tomboy #ghosts #school #bullying

Film of the day: TENÉIS QUE VENIR A VERLA (YOU HAVE TO COME SEE IT, dir Jonás Trueba, 2021) Modest suburban pastoral of bourgeois social mores, amiably awkward but a bit too slight to actually amount to much. #IndieLisboa #SpanishCinema #comedy #drama #family #romance #couples #pandemic #love

Film of the day: RODEO (dir Lola Quivoron, 2022) Social realism meets heist movie meets last chance melodrama, kinetically filmed but wasting a committed lead in a narrative that seems to hit consistently predictable beats. #IndieLisboa #drama #action #heist #melodrama #FrenchCinema

Film of the day: SOMETHING YOU SAID LAST NIGHT (dir Luis de Filippis, 2022) Well-observed family drama that is quietly radical in its normalising of queer characters, yet never strays from standard-issue family-dynamics American indie tropes. #IndieLisboa #drama #family #comedy #sisterhood #trans #LGBTQ #queercinema #indie

Film of the day: ASTRAKAN 79 (dir Catarina Mourão, 2023) Uneasy combination of historical document and personal portrait that is literally a game of two halves, of which the better, and more interesting, is the first; like two separate films that never quite make up one. #IndieLisboa #drama #documentary #fiction #1970s #queercinema #LGBTQ #VisionsDuReel