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Documenta Madrid 2012

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Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated exclusively to documentary film. Documenta is a continuously evolving festival and aspires to improve year after year as a showcase for the best in international documentary film, one which brings us closer to both the classics as well as the latest offerings in the genre.   ...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 11: Last month to send your documentary!

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               Until December 31, 2010 we have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 11. This is the third second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here. In addition, this year Documenta Madrid invites you to vote for the best documentaries of the decade (2001-2010). For this reason, at the end of the registration entry you will find a form in wh...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 11: CALL FOR ENTRIES

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DOCUMENTA MADRID is to be held from May 6 through 15, 2011 Registration is to be done online at the festival site www.documentamadrid.com PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED COMPETITIVE SECTIONS DOCUMENTA MADRID 2011, will have two competitive sections, divided into five categories of competition. The festival itself will decide whether to include the submitted films into any one of them, or to schedule them in the out-of-competition programming: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FUL...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 IN IMAGES

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Now you can see in our web site the festival photos collection. Visit the Photo Gallery of Documenta 10 with all the protagonists in this VII Edition: Alanis Obomsawin, Peter Hutton, Ben Russell, Harutyun Khachatryan, Wang Bing, Gonzalo Herralde, Valentina Leduc and Carlos Bernal. You can also see how it was spent the PRESS CONFERENCES or the MATADERO ENCOUNTERS between audience and filmmakers; each of the DOCUMENTA VENUES; the presentation of La Casa Abierta, the last publi...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 AWARD WINNERS

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The Jury announce the winner films in this Documenta Madrid Edition. Here is the complete list of winner films of this Sixth Edition: ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY SECTION First Prize of the Jury LA QUEMADURA, by René Ballesteros  (France, Chile). Second Prize of the Jury Les Racines du Brouillard by Dounia Bovet-Woltèche (Belgium). Honorable Mention of the Jury TABOU by Orane Burri (France) Audience Award EL GAUCHO by Andrés Jarach (Argentina, France) ORIGI...

DOCUMENTA 10 kicks off on May 7th with the best in international documentary film

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The City of Madrid's Department of the Arts is organizing the 7th International Documentary Festival DOCUMENTA MADRID 10, to be held from May 7th through the 16th. The rise in the number of films submitted to participate in the Competitive Sections (1153 films this year) and the number of countries from which they have come (92 different countries) once again bear witness to DOCUMENTA MADRID's strength as the most highly regarded festival internationally of all the competitions in the C...

ROCK, PAPER AND SCISSORS: THE COLLAGE IN THE DOCUMENTARY. SCREENING HALL 2.0

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Documenta 10 has a unique web cycle. Rock, Paper, Scissors: The collage in the documentary. 2.0 Board proposes an approach to documentary collage, an irreverent and subversive world exclusive viewing on our website. In this documentary collage includes avant-garde as Dziga Vertov's Kino Glaz; some essays as Critique de la séparation, of Guy Debord; Latin American documentary collage works with LBJ and Ilha das Flores de Santiago Alvarez and Jorge Furtado; the Fotage Found  offers by Josep...

Peter Hutton will present a broad retrospective of his work at DOCUMENTA MADRID

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  At his year´s 7th festival, DOCUMENTA MADIRD is offering broad programming in it´s parallel sections, including a series entitled "USA INDEPENDENTS" retrospectives of three filmmakers -Peter Hutton, Ben Russell and Joseph Strick- who have left their mark on recent history for their creative and revolutionary visions of the genre.  Peter Hutton has been a crucial figure in American documentary and experimental film for forty years. Hutton is the last link in the Nort...

HANNS EISLER CONFERENCE

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The Goethe-Institut in Madrid organizes in collaboration with Documenta Madrid 10 the retrospective Hanns Eisler: dialectic music for film, which will screen the works of the German musician and film composer.In this context, the Hanns Eisler Conference will be held at the Assembly hall of the Goethe-Institut next Friday 14th of May at 6:30 pm.     This special session will feature two experts in the work of Eisler: Antonio Notario Ruiz, Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of t...

Documenta Madrid 10 Official Selection

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A total of 87 unreleased films have been selected to participate in the Official Competitive Sections of Documenta Madrid 10, which will be celebrated from the 7th to the 16th of May.   The selected documentaries belong to 30 different nationalities; 33 of these films are Spanish productions. Some of the countries represented in the Oficial Section of Documenta Madrid 10 are: United States, France,Italy, Netherlands, United Kindom, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Argentina...

PETER HUTTON MASTERCLASS

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This year, Documenta Madrid is featuring the presence of Peter Hutton (Detroit, Michigan, 1944), important figure in the North American landscape tradition and a representative of the best documentary film-experimental,author of a brief filmography, always in 16mm, generally without dialogue as well as in black and white. The Image and its Eclipse will be the title of his Master Class which Peter Hutton will impart the 14th of May, at 12:00 a.m., at the Cine Estudio – Círculo de Bell...

DOCUMENTA MADRID will be the first in Spain to screen the Oscar award-winning documentary, The Cove

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DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will be screening,for the first time in Spain,The Cove, the controversial and widely acclaimed winner of the Oscar Award for Best Documentary. The director of The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, has won numerous awards; Audience Award at Sundance, Hot Docs, Silver Docs and the Documentary Festival of Amsterdam are just a few examples.   The Cove tells the story of a team of divers,activists, special effects experts, and the dolphin trainer Richard O’Barry, who leads the team into a ...

DOCUMENTA MADRID features the figure of Alanis Obomsawin

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This year, DOCUMENTA 10 will be featuring the work of the internationally known filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin; a politicised filmwriter whose work has gone practically unseen in Spain. Alanis Obomsawin is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, educator and activist who will show a retrospective of her spirited film work in this years 7th edition of the film festival DOCUMENTA MADRID.“Oka Crisis” is one of her most emblematic films, it deals with a conflict between the Canadian city of Oka and the M...

Matadero Madrid is the new headquarters for DOCUMENTA MADRID 10

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The 7th International Documentary Film Festival DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will be held from the 7th of May to the 16th of May, organized by the Arts Department of The City of Madrid with support and backing once again from HRH the Princess of Asturias,who will be the Patroness of Honor for this event. This year, the festival has received more submissions than ever, with 1,153 films from 92 different countries. Out of the total, 233 films are Spanish productions, a figure that increses year to ye...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10: Last call for entries!

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Until December 31, 2009 we have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. This is the second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here. DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION All films previously unreleased in Spain featuring an original or innovative perspective in terms of either form or content will be admitted for competition. This section has two categories: Fu...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10: ON LINE REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE!

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DOCUMENTA MADRID have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. This is the second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here. (The registration deadline for films is December 31, 2009.) DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION All films previously unreleased in Spain featuring an original or innovative perspective in terms of either form or content will be admitted for co...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10. CALL FOR ENTRIES

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DOCUMENTA MADRID 10. Call for entries ON LINE REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE! We have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. In our website www.documentamadrid.com you can know the complete Regulations of the Seventh Edition of the Festival, and make the registration on line of your documentary for Documenta 2010. The registration deadline for films is December 31, 2009.   DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections: ORIGINA...

COMPLETE PROGRAMME DOCUMENTA 09

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  We introduce the complete programme of Documenta Madrid 09 in our website. You can access to all the information about the films of this sixth edition. You can find the programme by day or by venue. ...

FREDERICK WISEMAN MASTERCLASS

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Documenta Madrid invites you to the first masterclass who Frederick Wiseman will impart in Madrid. It will be at the Cine Estudio - Círculo de Bellas Artes next Tuesday 5th of May at 12:00am. This year, Documenta Madrid is featuring the presence of Frederick Wiseman, one of the most important directors in documentary film since the 1970s. “How to read a Documentary” will be the title of the masterclass that the american director will impart in Madrid. It will be at the Cine Estu...

COMPETITIVE SECTIONS DOCUMENTA 09

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          107 films from 40 different countries making up the Competitive Sections of Documenta Madrid 09. Click here and consult all the details of the festival's sixth competition.   ...

Documenta Madrid 09 OFICIAL SELECTION

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107 FILMS FROM 40 COUNTRIES WILL COMPETE IN DOCUMENTA MADRID 09         A whole of 107 films have been selected for the Oficial Selection of the Documenta Madrid Festival which will be held from 1th to 10th of May. There are documentaries from 40 different countries; 22 are Spanish productions. Other countries represented in the Oficial Selection are: USA, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela or Urugua...

The 6th International Documentary Film Festival of Madrid will be held from May 1 through 10

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DOCUMENTA 09 will be feature the premiere of the main international films Madrid February 17, -‘09    The festival has broken a record in the number of films participating, with a total of 1078 coming from more countries than in previous years For the first time, all the films participating in the Competitive Sections will make their premiere in Spain. The famous soundtrack composer Michael Nyman will be the feature at the inauguration of the Festival o...

Documentary Madrid calling for Docs, submit now

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DOCUMENTA MADRID 2009 May 1 to May 10, 2009 Call for Entries Deadline: December 31, 2008 Online entry form   Contact Info Festival Director : Antonio Delgado Festival programmer : MªLuisa Ortega Festival Commercial contact : Information Festival Press contact : Prensa Press Department: Sonia Uría. +34 686 639 650. Lucía Blanco. + 34 6...

Documenta closing Ceremony of past edition

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The 2008 Edition  CLOSING CEREMONY 08 A special view of the principal entrance from the top of the pub where the closing ceremony of Documenta Madrid 2008 Festival took place. The Jury of Documenta Madrid 2008 presents the following awards: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SECTION. FULL-LENGTH FILMS First Prize of the Jury The mosquito problem and other stories, Andrey Paounov (Bulgary / 100´). To be awarded 10000 € and a trophy. Second Prize of the Jury Fairytale of Katmand...

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