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 […]
The session will address the possible distribution paths for a documentary film. What models are most convenient to give impact and path to our film? How can festival strategy anticipate a correct distribution of the documentary? We will study the resources, aids, and windows available to us in a complex distribution ecosystem, aggravated by the […]
Synopsis Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb, lifelong friends for more than 45 years, left their homeland to study cinema abroad. After years of distance and exile, they meet again with the hope of making their old dream come true: to bring cinema to Sudan, a country where both its production and exhibition are forbidden. They […]
Synopsis Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both attended the Film Academy. Independently of each other, they fled the malaise and communist censorship of their homeland. Heidi ended up in Switzerland, Patricia in Spain. They had no contact for years. Now both 40, they seek a way to approach each […]
Kazakhstan. Tian Shan mountains. Tuiuksu glacier. Glaciological station in the height of 3500 m. Here, for thirty years lives a woman. Totally alone and without any connection with the civilized world. She devoted all her life to science to keep her finger on the pulse of the planet. A story of the fragile Woman and […]
Audrius Stonys will be the guest of honor of the 2021 edition of MajorDocs. Using examples from his previous films, the Lithuanian filmmaker will explain what he understands by cinema and what drives him to dedicate his life to creation. We will learn from him about the different strategies and lessons he has accumulated over […]
Diversity governs the various forms of representation of contemporary documentary cinema. Fiction, experimental film, television or museum projects have conceptually expanded the way filmmakers explore reality.
"There will be no more night" is based on video recordings from the American and the French armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria... The film diverts these propaganda images and show how far the desire to see can lead to, when it is used without limit.
A powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the […]
