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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
