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 […]
But where the danger is, also grows the saving power. This is a sentence by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin that would perfectly define contemporary filmmaking: films speaking about uncertain times, powerless characters, vanishing landscapes, mistrusting images, endless ways of detachment. Our films are indeed addressing a Solastalgic moment, marked by a strong common feeling: the […]
An in-depth analysis of the current situation of documentary filmmaking, where the main agents in Spain and Portugal will share their experiences. In collaboration with ProDocs, the association of documentary producers, it will feature the participation of its president Ventura Durall -scriptwriter, director and producer, founder of the production company Nanouk Films, whose works have […]
Macià and Lau are two brothers born in Menorca, in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. Now a filmmaker, Macià resides temporarily in the United States, while Lau, the little brother, is a peasant who has stayed on this small rocky island. From a collection of images, letters and drawings with an organic texture, the […]
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for […]
