Valencian presence in the Mirades section of this new edition of the documentary festival, Docs Valencia, which starts today in our city and which has the Lys cinemas and the October Center as hosts.
This new meeting with the Valencian public begins, precisely, with a work produced by the Valencian Four Movies, gracing the opening session. Directed by Cuban Rolando Díaz, An elephant on a spider's web is an exercise in reflection in the face of the inevitability of death in which a film director, transcript of the author of this piece, He tries to make fun of life by making what may be his last film. For it, will have the company of a woman 109 years who wants to die and three young artists, a musician, a painter and an actress, with which he will undertake a journey towards La Mancha in search of the meaninglessness of existence.
Friday 6 – 19h. Cine Light
Saturday 7 – 20h. October CCC
Follow the programming with one of the Valencian directors with the greatest experience and recognition in our community. Adán Aliaga from Alicante returns to his origins as a documentary filmmaker (let's remember my grandmother's house, su debut) with a new job in which he continues, so that we understand, the secrets of posidonia, the oldest living being on the planet. However, in Posidonia, film that was born in the ideas laboratory of the festival itself, The incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic will interfere with the project, transforming it into a piece in which the director himself also puts himself in the first person, mixing existential reflection to get in touch with nature and, beyond, with something that connects us with the eternal. what are we?, the director seems to ask himself.
Thursday 12 – 21h. Cine Light
Friday 13 – 17h. October CCC
If there is a dark case of the post-Spanish civil war in our community, it is that of the 2.237 people who were shot in The land of Paterna. This is the theme that underpins Fusilados by Manuel Rossell and Lucas Moro. The work reviews the stories of those who died in what is known as “wall of Spain” with an original language and narration with which the directors seek to address the youngest audience to alert them about a xenophobic and far-right discourse and ideology that is the order of the day.
Mars 10 – 20h. Cine Light
Wednesday 11 – 21h. October CCC
There is no neighborhood that has concentrated the attention of the urban and neighborhood development of our city., that is Cabanyal. But, beyond the conflicts that have affected and still affect the neighborhood, the people who live there are found. This is the focus of Goal in Cabanyal! by David Coronado Verdeguer. For decades, The residents of the neighborhood get together every Sunday to play a beach soccer game. This custom has become more than just entertainment, It is a tradition that has been passed down through generations.. Coronado takes this fact to make a human portrait, a different look, away from prejudices, to one of the most emblematic neighborhoods of Valencia.
Saturday 7 – 17h. October CCC
Domingo 8 – 17h. October CCC
Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molés already had a triumphant pass through Docs Valencia with their previous film, Lobster Soup, work that also emerged from the contest's project laboratory and enjoyed a wide international run. Now they return with We enter, a different piece that addresses the creation process of La Mort i La Donzella, dance show created by director Asun Noales with which she would win the Max award for best choreography. But the film is much more than that., it's a trip, a story towards a past in which a premature death forces its protagonist to address those inner walls that no one wants to cross.
Saturday 7 – 18h. October CCC
Domingo 8 – 18.30h. October CCC
The number is a little scary. In the year 2050 there will be more than 9.700 millions of people in the world. Of them, more than 70% will live in cities. These populations must prepare to face this challenge, Sergio Sanus and Verónica Orrico tell us in their proposal The active city. The work takes a tour of the main processes that currently occur in cities and that will be decisive for their immediate future..
Wednesday 11 – 20h. Cine Light
Thursday 12 – 21h. October CCC
As he himself acknowledges on his website, the multidisciplinary artist Marco Caparrós travels in 2004 to Mexico and Guatemala where “he lived an initiatory experience of death and, after reconnecting to his primordial self, wake up to a world of infinite possibilities, where you are blessed with a multitude of incredible mystical and spiritual experiences, accessing where the subtle and vast library of thought is found and developing and experiencing dormant capacities that connect it to the magic of the nature of BEING.”. In invisible worlds, Director Orlando Bosch offers us an intimate portrait of this painter and performer born in Granada who trained at the School of Craftsmen of Valencia.
Monday 9 – 20.30h. October CCC
Mars 10 – 18.30h. October CCC
The neo-ecologist point of view puts it, finally, the film by Álex Cuéllar and Rafa G. Sánchez Persona [no] humana. Sandra and Cecilia are two great apes that live secluded and exhibited in terrible conditions in two Argentine zoos.. The NGO Proyecto Gran Simio contacts a group of lawyers to begin a long judicial path to achieve recognition of three fundamental rights: to life, to freedom and non-torture.
Domingo 8 – 21h. Cine Light
Monday 9 – 18h. October CCC
