In an increasingly difficult international audiovisual landscape, how to give birth to works, protect authors, be creative and effective intermediaries between creation and the creative economy. Producer. Jacques Bidou will discuss on new forms of creation and production based first of all on an ethical approach to the profession. A producer is someone who is […]
The documentary filmmaking profession involves long periods immersed in other people's lives, without fixed schedules or calendars. Documenting other people's lives means temporarily prioritizing the subject's life over one's own. We will address the intricacies of the filmmaker's family reconciliation during the various processes that range from writing to promoting a film, as well as […]
Synopsis A prayer in the form of a film, shot with a meditative camera that caresses over the beautiful Spanish landscape with an extraordinary textured soundscape to match. Inland succeeds in telling a vulnerable, vivid and sprawling story about the challenging present of a group of farmers in a remote yet beautiful village. But the […]
Synopsis A box of tapes uncovered. A father’s lifelong Utopian obsession. A daughter’s attempt to reconnect with his father by completing his final film. Wintopia traces the enigmatic footsteps of renowned documentary filmmaker Peter Wintonick through the lens of his daughter, Mira, as she tries to decipher the map he has left behind. Reverberating with […]
Based on his two films "The Legend of Time" and its sequel "Between Two Waters", Isaki Lacuesta will address the contract he establishes with the viewer between the documented and the fictional. He will also talk to us about technique: about the shooting, the editing, or how to organize a team: above all, the entire […]
Gaining access to a character's privacy is a key objective for any filmmaker. Achieving it involves sacrifices, virtues and dangers that are not always easy to manage. We will address key elements in the relationship between author and subject, such as fascination, emotional distance, perspective and protection. In addition to this access, we will raise […]
Synopsis The 60-year-old Nils has turned his back on society and has taken his refuge in a small wooden cabin in the mountains of Norway. Despite his attempt to distance himself from the world, Nils brought his cellphone and is confronted with his urge to have contact with others. This documentary describes and observes how […]
Synopsis They are blissfully happy together, have a cute little son and are ready for a new start. But there’s a big problem: Leila and Sahand are both still married to other people. And in Iran, there are severe penalties for adultery. The couple flees to neighboring Turkey to apply for refugee status and escape […]
If I close my eyes and imagine a filmmaker, a figure appears with a tool in its hands. It’s a long stick, with a mesh at its end. And with it, he tries to catch the right shape, the butterfly, the image to say what it means, to share the idea, the story, the emotion […]
Nowadays, subjectivity is a primordial value in creative documentaries. This fact conditions the concept of reality and poses the limits that separate objective truth from the author's vision. We will address the different ways of capturing subjectivity on the screen, reflect on the writing of the documentary script and the points of view, and explore […]
Synopsis According to legend, “at the beginning of the world once again there was neither sand nor sea, neither soothing waves nor billowing meadows, neither playful winds nor sky, only a gaping abyss.” The nothingness receded, and there at the edge of the world Iceland emerged. A man and a woman traveled with their livestock […]
Synopsis In 2015, Afghan director Hassan Fazili and his wife Fatima Hussaini received death threats from the Taliban. Together with their two daughters, Nargis and Zahra, they were forced to flee their homeland to Europe to protect themselves from a possible attack. The trip, that would last several years, was filmed by the family, which […]
