Iron Man is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, after suffering a severe heart injury and being kidnapped, was forced to build a devastating weapon. He instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as the superhero Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor that created military weapons and whose metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

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New adventure of famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, who is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt.

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The aims of the festival are presenting, teaching, confronting and experimenting the art of the moving image. Always searching for artistic innovation, the Festival produces and exhibits interdisciplinary projects in animation and moving image.

The program will comprise the following areas:

• Animation Short Film Competition;
• English retrospective;
• Interdiciplinary Artistic Projects;
• Workshops and Seminars;
• Monstrinha - films for younger audiences;
• exhibitions;
• Monstra editions.

If you want more information regarding Monstra Festival, visit its official website.

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In parallel to the Official Selection, the Festival also runs non-competitive film programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema. These range from the historical nature of Cannes Classics, to the directorial debuts of the Caméra d’Or and the more public arena of the Cinéma de la Plage.

Cannes Classics: Since 2004, the Festival has celebrated the heritage of film with Cannes Classics. The programme’s aim is to highlight works of the past, presented with brand new or restored prints, and to give them a second lease of life in museums, cinemas and on DVD.

Cannes Classics is held at the Buñuel Theatre and offers a diversified thematic programme which is particularly focused on: new or restored prints, tributes to filmmakers or foreign cinema, documentaries on filmmaking.

The Caméra d’or: created in 1978, this programme focuses on the first features in any selections (official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, International Critics’ Week) and awards the best of them.

Cinema de la Plage: opened in order to bring Cannes to the masses, the Cinéma de la plage is an outdoor theatre on the Macé beach screening films Out of Competition or from the programme Cannes Classics.

Have access to the complete program of the festival, as well as other details and curiosities, by visiting its official website.

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The movie, based on a novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in one (unnamed) city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the (also unexplained) good fortune that the doctor’s wife is, as far as we know, the only individual who has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures.

A movie by Fernando Meirelles.

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A 70-year-old man, Dominic Matei, decides to commit suicide because he knows he won’t be able to achieve his life’s purpose - finishing a masterpiece about language and conscience.

When arriving at Bucarest, and during a storm, he is struck by lightning. Burnt and in a comma, he goes to the hospital nearly dead. But Dominic gets better. new hair begins to grow in his head, new teeth tear his gums, and his skin and face look like the ones of a 30-year-old man. Along with this rebirth his mind shows amazing cognitive and learning capacities.

A movie about the thin line existing between life and death, the bright and the dark side of being. And about the possibility some people get of having a second chance.

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May 15, 1871. The French poet Rimbaud writes a letter to Paul Demeny stating “Je est un autre”. When Bob Dylan comes across that letter he finds the true essence of his self.

“I’m not there”, the movie by Todd Haynes is a creative attempt of portraying those many lives of Bob Dylan. Based on the concept of “not being Bob Dylan” (his true name is Robert Allen Zimmerman), the director builds the musician’s biography based on six different characters:

• Arthur Rimbaud (Ben Whishaw), the poet, a narrator/commentator testifying about his choices and ideas;
• Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin), an 11-year-old black boy, the north-american folk communist “Dustbowl balladeer”;
• Jack Rollins (Christian Bale), the protest singer and Christian Dylan of the end of the 70s;
• Robbie Clark (Heath Ledger), the eccentric musician unhappy at love;
• Jude Quinn (Cate Blanchett), the drug addict and folk tradition traitor; and
• Billy the Kid (Richard Gere), the outlaw, the outsider Dylan.

A movie about searching for an ultimate identity by analysing different alter-egos.

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The ending ceremony of the 5th International Independent Film Festival happens today at 09.30 p.m., in Cinema São Jorge, where the winner films will be announced. After that will be screened the film “It´s a Free World”, by Ken Loach.
The most seen films are “My Blueberry Nights”, by Wong Kar Wai, “Happy Go Lucky”, by Mike Leigh, “Joy Division”, de Grant Gee, “Mister Lonely”, de Harmony Korine, “Go Go Tales”, by Abel Ferrara, “Uprise”, by Sandro Aguilar and “Sleepwalking Land”, by Teresa Prata.

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International Competition

Feature films:

EL ASALTANTE
by Pablo Fendrik - Argentina, 2007, 71′

CHARLY
by Isild Le Besco - France, 2007, 95′

CORRECTION
by Thanos Anastopoulos - Greece, 2007, 83′

THE FLOWER BRIDGE
by Thomas Ciulei - Romenia, 2008, 87′

LA FRANCE
by Serge Bozon - France, 2007, 102′

MOMMA’S MAN
by Azazel Jacobs - USA, 2008, 98′

THE MOTHER
by Antoine Cattin e Pavel Kostomarov - Switzerland, 2007, 80′

NIGHT TRAIN
by Diao Yinan - China, 2007, 91′

PAS A NIVELL
by Pere Vilà i Barceló - Spain, 2007, 103′

PINK
by Alexander Voulgaris - Greece, 2007, 90′

WONDERFUL TOWN
by Aditya Assarat - Thailand, 2007, 90′

UPRISE
by Sandro Aguilar - Portugal, 2008

Short Films

National Competition:

Feature Films:
ACCESS ROAD
by Nathalie Mansoux – Portugal, 2008, 90’

ÁLVARO LAPA: A LITERATURA
by Jorge Silva Melo – Portugal, 2007, 100’

ENDGAME
by António Borges Correia – Portugal, 2007, 71’

SLEEPWALKING LAND
by Teresa Prata – Portugal, 2007, 96’

THE ZONE
by Sandro Aguilar – Portugal, 2008, 99’

Short Films

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INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.
The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.
Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and independence, in four years INDIELISBOA was able to become the most important Portuguese festival.

For further information visit the official website:

http://www.indielisboa.com/amit/eng/news.php

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