30 APRIL / 11 MAY

SECTIONS // OFFICIAL COMPETITION

OFFICIAL COMPETITION SHORT LENGTH

The Official Section will bring some of the greatest of the season's documentaries to the competition, all newly released in Spain. Films by internationally acclaimed and award-winning directors, as well as new directors; traditional narrative styles and innovative use of language and in the way of describing reality; direct and unique testimonies of our most recent history, and poetic and subjective views of people's experiences.

Cinema as real as life itself which will bring us closer to the world's most disputed territories, but also real stories which seem to have come out of fictional novels... 20 short films which will compete for the main DocumentaMadrid award for the best documentary.

Beach Boy
Emil Langballe / 2013
Audience vote 7.02
David Hockney IN THE NOW (in 6 Minutes)
Lucy Walker / 2014
Audience vote 6.97
Emergency Calls
Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen / 2013
Audience vote 5.36

Jardin des deux Rives (Garden on both river Banks)
Amel El Kamel / 2013
Audience vote 4.61
Jessy
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
Paula Lice, Rodrigo Luna, Ronei Jorge / 2013
Audience vote 6.46
KIEDY BĘDĘ PTAKIEM (When I Am A Bird)
Monika Pawluczuk / 2013
Audience vote 6.33

La Ahorcadita (The Hanged Girl)
Pierre Saint-Martin, Carlos Torres / 2013
Out of Competition
Audience vote 5.02
La Parka (The Reaper)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY
Gabriel Serra Arguello / 2013
Audience vote 6.61
La Reina (The Queen)
FIRST PRIZE OF THE JURY
Manuel Abramovich / 2013
Audience vote 8.21