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 […]
On November 3, 1995, the RÃo Tercero Military Munitions Factory, the emblematic industry of my hometown, exploded. Thousands of shells were fired against the city that had produced them. I was 12 years old, and while I was trying to escape from the blast, I recorded the devastation of my hometown with a video camera. […]
Siblings Amaia and Aitor are close to turning fifty, do not have children, and since they were young they have lived away from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, who are now retired. One summer the four of them get together and go on a cruise called "Fantasia". On the high seas time seems to stand […]
On November 3, 1995, the RÃo Tercero Military Munitions Factory, the emblematic industry of my hometown, exploded. Thousands of shells were fired against the city that had produced them. I was 12 years old, and while I was trying to escape from the blast, I recorded the devastation of my hometown with a video camera. […]
Siblings Amaia and Aitor are close to turning fifty, do not have children, and since they were young they have lived away from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, who are now retired. One summer the four of them get together and go on a cruise called "Fantasia". On the high seas time seems to stand […]
