LEFFEST

“I only want to talk about cinema, why talk about anything else? With the cinema, we talk about everything, we arrive at everything” Jean-Luc Godard

This exhibition offers a journey inside the last feature film by French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard, with a visual and sound journey through the five chapters of the film The Image Book (2018) – Special Palme d'Or winner at Cannes – which reveals the vitality of his work and legacy in what is one of the central events of Leffest. 

If the film is an observation of the world by one of its most important observers, the exhibition offers visitors an observatory of reality, both exterior and interior. The public is invited to experience what surrounds through a scenography that blends in with Palácio Sinel de Cordes. In this testimony to Jean-Luc Godard's visual acuity, there is a desire to communicate the relevance of the gaze, of a "giving to see" heritage.

Opening Hours & Prices

Until 2 December
Tuesday to Saturday, open from 10h—19h
Tickets: 5€, students 3€

Guided Tours

by Fabrice Aragno
Limited to 15 participants per session
Price: 5€ /3€ for students Registrations

Thursday, 16 November — at 10:30 and 12:30
Saturday, 18 November, at 10:00, 12:00 and 14:30

Jean-Luc Godard 

Franco-Swiss film director, screenwriter and critic (1930-2022) who stood out as a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague in the 60s. His experiments with narrative, editing and camerawork revolutionised cinema. Among his most acclaimed films are Bande à part (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965) and Farewell to Language (2014).

Godard built his discursive images as homages to the history of cinema, expressing political opinions through formal essays illustrative of a militant and engaged cinema.

Leffest

This festival returns to Lisbon for another surprise-filled edition from November 10 to 19, 2023. Since its first editions, it has hosted leading figures such as Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders, Nan Goldin, Nanni Moretti, Isabelle Huppert, Peter Handke, Robert Pattinson and Monica Bellucci, among many others.

Committed to a selection delivering the best of contemporary film production, the 17th edition programme transcends the boundaries of cinema by bridging it with other arts and disciplines. As always, the audience can count on diverse initiatives, the presence of big names in art and culture, and the creation of a platform for debate, translating the interdisciplinary engagement which has become the event’s trademark.

A stone’s throw from Palácio Sinel de Cordes, at Galeria Imago Lisboa, an exhibition of New York director and photographer Khalik Allah opens for the first time in Portugal on November 11. His work has been described as a "street opera", visceral, beautiful and haunting at the same time.