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In our current moment of global migration and cultural displacement, Lisboa offers a nuanced portrait of what it means to build a life across borders. Rather than presenting immigration as either triumph or tragedy, the film shows it as an ongoing process of adaptation, loss, discovery, and creative transformation.

Two decades have passed since the premiere of Testigo del Siglo at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, where the memoirs of Ismael Viñas—a man who shaped Argentina’s intellectual and political landscape—first flickered on screen. Viñas, the founder of Contorno magazine, a collaborator of Arturo Frondizi, and the creator of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN), left Argentina in 1976, never to return.