Lisbon Film Festival celebrates 20th anniversary in November

The Leffest - Lisboa Film Festival returns to Lisbon from November 6 to 15, marking its 20th edition. The festival will be hosted across five locations, including Cinema São Jorge, Cinema Nimas, Culturgest, Teatro do Bairro, and for the first time, the NOS Vasco da Gama cinema.

Director Paulo Branco announced a diverse program featuring acclaimed filmmakers such as David Cronenberg, Kelly Reichardt, Tiago Guedes, Christophe Honoré, Florian Zeller, and Mario Martone. David Cronenberg is set to present his film ‘The Christophers’ and will preside over the official competition jury.

The festival will open with James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller, and conclude with Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Debut’. Other notable screenings include Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’, a near-complete retrospective of Lars von Trier, and works by Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh.