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 […]
The philosopher Remedios Zafra, an expert in creativity, will address some of the ideas in her essays The Enthusiasm (Anagrama Essay Prize) and her recent Fragile, on the vulnerability of artistic creators. In the new culture of immaterial work, for many people life is spent isolated in front of screens, exhausted and anxious, overmedicated, resting […]
The self has established itself as a major feature of the new documentary cinema. How does the auteur manifest itself in its interrelationship with reality in contemporary documentary filmmaking? The selected filmmakers will share their experiences according to the degree of intervention in their work. We will address the growing practice of the total creator, […]
After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s. From Brussels to Tangiers, this is an odyssey of a family marked by exile—evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.
A group of people have been gathering for the last eighteen years at a bar in Buenos Aires to read the same book over and over: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Going through their memories and emotions, with a great sense of humor, the group gives the novel a new and unexpected […]
