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DocumentaMadrid 14. XI Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid

DocumentaMadrid 14. XI Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid

DocumentaMadrid, a festival devoted exclusively to documentary cinema, is running at CINETECA from 30 April to 11 May, offering the best films produced in the genre this season.

Promoted by Madrid city council and supported by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the eleventh DocumentaMadrid aims to consolidate the change of direction undertaken in 2013 that has made the competition a benchmark festival on the international scene. The Official Section features some of the most important documentaries (long and short) of the season, which will be shown for the first time in Spain.

The first works of novel directors will be screened together with films by well-established and prize-winning directors from all over the world; traditional narrative forms and films that are innovative in their language and in how they portray reality; direct and unrepeatable testimonies of our most recent history and poetic and subjective visions of people’s experiences, making up an accurate snapshot of the unsettled times we live in.

In addition to the competition section, DocumentaMadrid features Panorama del documental español (outlook for the Spanish documentary), which takes a special look at the documentary cinema produced in our country. These films are increasingly rich and varied both in their ideas and their cinematographic approach to the subjects addressed.

This year’s festival includes a retrospective of the oeuvre of the Swiss filmmaker of Spanish origin Fernand Melgar, an important name in cinema dealing with the subjects of immigration and identity.

The programme of screenings also features the cycle Focus on directors consisting of various documentaries on great film directors, which can be viewed at Filmoteca Española.

The more than 70 films are accompanied by various parallel activities, roundtables, and workshops on interactive documentaries and narrative formulas made possible by new technologies… all in all 12 days of intense, good cinema on reality, which make Madrid a meeting point for professionals, creators and the audiences at whom their works are directed. 

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