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.
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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...
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 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 ...
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...
The 7th International Documentary Film Festival will be held from May 7th to May 16
For the second straight year, HRH the Princess of Asturias will be the Patroness of Honor for the International Documentary Festival of Madrid.
In 2010, the competition will feature a new headquarters and sets up for good in Matadero Madrid.
Documenta Madrid has set a new record in the number of submissions received, 1,153 films from 92 countries, and a significant number of Spanish productions, 233 entr...
Waste Land, Lucy Walker’s documentary about the world’s largest landfill, just nabbed the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.
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.
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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.
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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...
May 1st to the 10th will be the dates for the 6th International Documentary Film Festival DOCUMENTA MADRID 09, organized by the City of Madrid. As its main new feature, all the films participating in the competitive sections of the festival will be making their premiere in Spain. The calling of this year's DOCUMENTA is to show a selection of international films as a true reflection of the social, cultural, economic, artistic and environmental realities in today's world. DOCUMENTA MADRID has grow...
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 Commercial contact : Information
Festival Press contact : Prensa
Press Department:
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prensa@documentamadrid.com
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Brasil Documenta is the biggest event dedicated to the aesthetics and documentary filmmaking discussion in Brazil: a one-time opportunity for the sharing of experiences with some of the most important documentary filmmakers and commissioning editors.
As an innovative initiative, the organisers of DOCUMENTA 08 and the EGEDA Digital team have decided to create the Filmotech.com Award, through which the festival will come to life on the Internet, beyond the official page. In this way the makers of the works in the Competitive Sections can, if they wish, present their films on the Net so that, with all the guarantees of legality, they can be downloaded from anywhere on the globe. Those directors who opt to do so can compete for the Filmotech.com...
