9 DocsValencia

FROM FRIDAY 9 TO SATURDAY 17/5
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New edition of this contest dedicated to documentary format. Like every year, Official programming to Docsvalència contest is divided into four sections. We start with Mirades, Section dedicated to Valencian production, This year includes six feature films. Giovanna Ribes signature Cecilia Bartolomé. So far, tan a prop, Portrait of the Alicante filmmaker who opened roads in a context marked by censorship; While Luis Calero presents Protagonists, Tape that shows us a group of young people with functional diversity that prepares a fashion parade that becomes a transformation space. Dreaming football, Gonzalo Gurrea Ysasi, It brings together former nineties to talk about the passage of time and a sport that today lacks solid referents; and in Normal Earth, José Andrés Sáiz documents the tension in a town in the face of the possible construction of a nuclear warehouse. For your part, Pablo Gabaldón investigates democratic memory in Your names are missing, tape looking for the shadow of Francoist repression among the common graveyard of the Valencia cemetery. Complete the section The dance of gunpowder, of Pablo Zanón, A choral portrait of failures from within through the look of five of its protagonists.

After this review of local production, The Panorama section brings together four national production titles. Open this section Daughter of the volcano from Jenifer de la Rosa Martín, that tells us his return to Colombia, country in which he was born and from which he was separated in his childhood after being adopted. Ander Duque presents Burnout, An intimate look a day to day of an artist who survives by chaining precarious jobs, While your creative vocation is pause; And from the Basque Country it arrives That is known, by Amaia Merino and Ander Iriarte, A testimony about the consequences of ETA conflict through the voice of Tamara Muruetagoiena. For your part, Paco Rabanne. A life out of the boss, of Pepa G.. Ramos and Tirma Pérez, Recover the figure of the Spanish designer who revolutionized fashion from architecture and dissent, From your last interview.

Close the official program of this edition the Global Docs International Section, With three long jobs. In This is Ballroom, The Brazilian Juru Vitá portrays the scene ballroom from Rio de Janeiro as a space for expression and resistance for LGBTQ+ youth; while, From Peru, Joanna Lombard's Pollarolo company Stay still, A story located in a cemetery invaded by homeless families looking for a place to live. The Austrian Clara Trischler closes the section with Night of the Coyotes, unusual portrait of a Mexican community organized by border crossroads as a form of provocation and reflection. Besides, The fragment section will allow us to approach, Through twelve pieces, Maybe the Valencian short film in documentary format. Docsvalència's programming closes with professional encounters and talks around such diverse topics as music in cinema, Non -fiction narratives and recognition of Julien Assange's figure, In a meeting organized by the Journalist Valencians in which the documentary will be screened Wikileaks. The Alacant Connection of the director Helena Sánchez. G.LEON

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