27 APRIL / 08 MAY

SECTIONS // PANORAMA OF THE SPANISH DOCUMENTARY

PANORAMA OF THE SPANISH DOCUMENTARY

For another year running, DocumentaMadrid shows its commitment to Spanish documentary film. DOCUMENTAMADRID, brings a new addition to the festival’s Official Palmares: the Award for Best Feature-Length Spanish Documentary, which is intended to recognise the increasingly extensive body of films produced in Spain that are achieving widespread acclaim outside our borders. With this new addition, the Panorama of the Spanish Documentary Section, which provides a special overview each year of the cinema of the real produced in Spain, will become a competitive category, as feature-length documentaries never before screened in Spain will be eligible to compete for the award.

A total of 16 films (9 of which are included in the competition)bring us the same number of different images of both our most immediate reality and that of far-off places, with fascinating stories featuring people and landscapes we already know or whose life journeys will captivate our attention. Senior citizens who follow their passions, searching for a second life after retirement, and younger 35-year-olds who question their single state; stories of Latin American women who must leave their children to give them a better future, and single mothers who are considered invisible in Morocco; Ugandan children who play football to escape poverty, and natives who live with foreigners who have fled the city to work with cork oak in the Alentejo; fascinating characters like the former apprentice bullfighter and CNT activist who, as Director of Madrid’s prisons, saved dozens of prisoners loyal to both sides in the war, or the Jewish twins who struggle with their Diogenes Syndrome when rearranging their family home, along with a portrait of the cruelty suffered by animals in many of Spain’s festivities. These are the stories we will see in the competition, in addition to various others that are not in the running. The programme is rounded off by four short films.

¡ NEW 2016 ! AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE LENGTH SPANISH DOCUMENTARY

A prize of 6,000 € and a trophy will be awarded for the best feature length Spanish documentary film seen for the very first time in Spain at DOCUMENTAMADRID, either in the International Feature Length Competition or the Spanish Documentary Panorama Section.

MOVISTAR + AWARD TO THE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

In adition to the new award that the festival includes in the official Palmares, as previous years, MOVISTAR+ collaborates with DocumentaMadrid 2016 granting the MOVISTAR+ Award to the Best Documentary Film within the Panorama of Spanish Documentary Section. The award will consist of the acquisition of the broadcasting rights of the awarded film to include it in the MOVISTAR+ broadcasting network programming, and a trophy. It will be MOVISTAR+ who will choose the winner according to its artistic and production values. The acquisition terms will be the usual terms of the network.

35 y soltera (35 and single)
Paula Schargorodsky / 2016
Ad Ventum (Hacia el viento) (Ad Ventum. Toward the Wind)
Bárbara Mateos García / 2016

Brumaire
Joseph Gordillo / 2015
Out of Competition
En tránsito (In Transit)
Oskar Tejedor / 2016

La mayor locura (The Craziest)
Award for the best feature length spanish documentary
"For the originality with which addresses the issue of memory; as well as the choice of characters, the ability to transmit the struggle, the resistance to loneliness and the passage of time. We also want to highlight the quality of the filming of this documentary, and the poetic and suggestive language used."
Adolfo Dufour / 2015
La tempestad calmada (The Calmed Tempest)
Omar A. Razzak / 2016
Out of Competition

Madres Invisibles (Invisible Mothers)
Lorenzo Benítez / 2016
Melchor Rodríguez, el ángel rojo (Melchor Rodríguez, the red angel)
Alfonso Domingo / 2016

Mothertongue
Teresa Sendagorta / 2016
Out of Competition
Nola?
Fermín Muguruza Ugarte / 2015
Out of Competition

Santa Fiesta
Miguel Ángel Rolland / 2016
Sexo, maracas y chihuahuas (Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas)
Diego Mas Trelles / 2016
Out of Competition

Socotra, la isla de los genios (Socotra, the Island of Djinns)
Jordi Esteva / 2015
Out of Competition
Tarajal: Desmuntant la impunitat de la frontera sud (Tarajal: An European Phantasmagoria)
Xavier Artigas, Xapo Ortega i Marc Serra / 2016
Out of Competition

The Other Kids
MOVISTAR+ Award
For showing how dreams may also become into a driving force for survivalism... even if they are football dreams ;-)
Pablo de la Chica / 2015
Thy Father's Chair
Antonio Tibaldi, Àlex Lora / 2015