LEFFEST18º
Lisboa Film Festival 08–17.11.2024

Sections and films 2015

Official Selection In Competition

The Official Selection - In Competition will gather some of the best films produced or premiered during 2015.
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Official Selection Out of Competition

One of the key aims of this section is to have an overview of the world film production.
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Tribute Luís Miguel Cintra

Iconic personality of Portuguese cinema and theater, Luis Miguel Cintra started acting and stage directing early.
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Tribute Wim Wenders

There is a long relationship of genuine affection linking the German filmmaker to Portugal and, specifically, to Lisboa and its region.
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Retrospective Jonathan Demme

Producer and director, with over fifty titles, Jonathan Demme is one of the essential names of American cinema in the last decades.
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Retrospective Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder was born on August 26, 1941, in Tehran, Iran and he studied philosophy in the Sorbonne, in France. He is a director and producer
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Programme

Hans-Jürgen Syeberberg, German filmmaker born in Nossendorf in 1935
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The art of love from Jean Douchet

Jean Douchet, born in France, in 1929, is a filmmaker, historian, critic and cinema professor.
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The Austin, Texas Directors

Austin (Texas) is an American city with one of the largest and most diverse creative communities.
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David Gordon Green Special screenings

Green grew up in Dallas, Austin and Longview, Texas. He was “obsessed” with cinema from a very young age.
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Discover: Nabil Ayouch

Of Moroccan birth, Nabil Ayouch is a cinema and television director.
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Discover: Sara Driver

One of the active participants of the independent New York scene.
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Discover: Martín Rejtman

Martín Rejtman is a writer and director, and one of the “pioneers” of the “new Argentinian cinema”.
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A New Hope

A New Hope is a new section of the LEFFEST, intended to show the audience a selection of films by directors who made their debut this year
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CinemArt Alain Fleischer

​CinemArt is a section of the festival devoted to personalities from the arts domain
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Bigger Than Life

Discussion and thought development about art and the world.
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Cinema Lessons: Benoît Jacquot's

The director brings us Joseph Losey's film The Gypsy and the Gentleman
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Case Study: how to win an Oscar

A section devoted to success stories in the field of film production and distribution.
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“Cosa de Niños” Programme

The Grupo Rock presents their first short film, made at the Villa Sarmiento neighborhood, in Buenos Aires.
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Special Screenings Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind

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Soirées Tarkovsky

Set of events devoted to poet Arseni Tarkovsky and director Andrei Tarkovsky
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Competition Best Short Film

The European film schools meeting, which takes place annually at the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
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