Doclisboa2026 - Portuguese Competition | Hipogeus + The House Is the Ruin of a House
Doclisboa2026 - Competição PT | Hypogea+The house..
DJ set 5€
Monday 19 October · 19:00
A Portuguese Competition session with two world premieres eligible for the Short Film Award: Inês Sapeta Dias's The House Is the Ruin of a House, which maps a century-old house standing in the mouth of a giant, nearly extinct volcano, and Raul Domingues's Hipogeus, inspired by the archaeoacoustics of prehistoric tombs. On 19 October at 19.00, São Jorge, Sala M. Oliveira.
Synopsis Screenings 19 OCT / 19.00, São Jorge, Sala M. Oliveira The House Is the Ruin of a House Inês Sapeta Dias • 2026 • Portugal • 31’ • DCP World Premiere Eligible for the Short Film Award The House Is the Ruin of a House maps a tiny house that has stood for a hundred years in the centre of the mouth of a giant, practically extinct volcano. It speaks of the house's permanence but also of its imminent disappearance. It follows the enormous, vast, contradictory, threatening and deafening movements of the earth, the wind, the sea and time, and projects a future of extinction into the present (a landscape resembling that of a distant past). Screened with . Hipogeus Screenings 19 OCT / 19.00, São Jorge, Sala M. Oliveira Hipogeus Raul Domingues • 2026 • Portugal • 39’ • DCP World Premiere Eligible for the Short Film Award In the prehistoric tombs, a timeless resonance vibrates through the limestone outcrops. Inspired by archaeoacoustics, an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human beings and sound, the film provides an ancestral experience, exploring the mysteries of life and death, the origin of images and the therapeutic properties of sound. Screened with . The House Is the Ruin of a House Prices General - 5€ Reduced mobility - 5€