The DocsValencia International Documentary Film Festival. Non Ficcifrom has announced the two production worksfromn Valencian to markonn the beginning and closing of your dandabove editfromn. The contest inaugurateson are programmersfromn with the feature film ‘La Piethas', by filmmakers Rafa Molands y Pepe Andreu, and say goodbyeon with the projectionfromn of ‘The Saint’, recent winner of the Goya Award for best documentary short film, directed by the Italian creator based in Dandhis Carlo D’bears.
In the southandabove editfromn, what will haveon place of 15 al 23 of May, The contest reinforces its commitment to Valencian talent. With the electionfromn of these two works, The festival focuses on stories that address big contemporary issuesondenies, like the relationshipfromn with our natural environment and constructionfrommemory no. inintimate and collective.
It is añor the festival launches new stages for its big events. The emblemontico TEM (The Musical Theater) to beon the framework of the opening ceremony, while the closure of this dandabove editfromI don't know how to celebrateon in The Mutant.
The forinthe person in charge of opening the festival will beon ‘La Piethas’, directed by Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molands. Produced by the Valencian SUICAfilms in co-productionfromn with Axfilms and Studio Names, the tape reaches ValAndnce after its world premiere in the Seccifromn Officer of the Tesal International Documentary Festivalfromnica.
The electionfromn of ‘La Piethas‘ as the inaugural tape encloses, ademons, a deep value symbfromready for the contest, since it means closing a cinperfect circle within your own talent development ecosystem. The project took its first steps in the festival's industry spaces (DocsLab) during hisandI was the bestfromn and 2023. Allin, when toún was in the development phase, Mol's workands and Andreu managedfrom win the DocsMX Award, an awardfromwhat an impulsefrom decisively made its international leap by opening the doors of the Plataforma Ib laboratory at the City of M Festival.andxico. Three añundress themands of that initial support, the work returns to what was its first home, already converted into afromcopes coproduccifromEuropean n, to pick up the phonefromn of this dandabove editfromn.
The documentary travels to the Vatnaj glacieröevery, the largest in Europe, to reconstruct the history of the Bj brothersörn, that in 1910 They isolated themselves in an extreme farm with the aim of observing the ice, convertedandbecoming pioneers of climate registrationontico. From the voice of the photofromgraph islandands Ragnar Axelsson, what notfrom his childhood in that same place, the forinwhich builds a powerful metonvisual forum on the fragility of the planet.
A large white tarp covering the glacier, as a shroud, evokes the iconographyinof La Piedad and transforms the landscape into an image of collective mourning in the face of the disappearance.fromn of ice. The work also incorporatesons a sound element linked to the territory: one reinterpret usfromn of traditional song ‘Oh, sad life’ of the Mystery d’Elx, performed by the soprano Quiteria Muñoz.
