Tutto pronto per il FIPADOC
- 180 opere brillano nella vetrina del primo grande evento documentaristico internazionale dell'anno, che si svolgerà a Biarritz dal 24 gennaio al 1° febbraio

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"Knowing how to look carefully at others, knowing how to look inside of yourself to imagine a better world, but also knowing how to look at the world for what it is, without lowering your gaze or your camera." These are the virtues of documentary film, according to Anne Georget and Christine Camdessus, who are respectively the president and general delegate of FIPADOC which has unveiled the wonderfully rich programme (180 works) of its 7th edition, unspooling in Biarritz between 24 January and 1 February.
12 films will battle it out for the Grand Documentary Prize, set to be awarded by a jury comprising French director Nicolas Philibert, South Africa’s Mandisa Zitha (director of the Encounters Festival) and Serbian director Mila Turajlić. Standing tall among them are Afternoons of Solitude [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Albert Serra
scheda film] by Spain’s Albert Serra (which triumphed in San Sebastián), Saturno by fellow Spaniard Daniel Tornero, At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maja Novaković
scheda film] by Bosnia’s Maja Novaković (victorious in Sheffield) and Happiness to All [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Filip Remunda
scheda film] by Czech filmmaker Filip Remunda (crowned Best Documentary from Central Eastern Europe at the Ji.hlava Festival).
Sharing the showcase are Balomania [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Denmark’s Sissel Morell Dargis (discovered at CPH DOX), Tracing Light [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thomas Riedelsheimer
scheda film] by Germany’s Thomas Riedelsheimer (unveiled in Dok Leipzig), My Sweet Land [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by the Jordanian-Armenian director Sareen Hairabedian (screened in Sheffield), Dad’s Lullaby [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ukraine’s Lesia Diak (discovered in competition in Sarajevo), Cleaning & Cleansing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Austria’s Thomas Fürhapter, Black Box Diaries [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Japan’s Shiori Itō, Homegrown by American filmmaker Michael Premo and The Bibi Files by South Africa’s Alexis Bloom.
The French Documentaries Competition (due to be assessed by a jury including Claus Drexel, Lofti Achour and Lucile Commeaux) will consist of 12 contenders, 10 of which are feature films: Sudan, Remember Us [+leggi anche:
intervista: Hind Meddeb
scheda film] by Hind Meddeb, Stups by Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet, Act Up Against AIDS, A Story of Love and Death by Pierre Chassagnieux and Matthieu Lère, The Watchman by Lou du Pontavice and Victoire Bonin Grais, Writing Hawa [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori
scheda film] by Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori, Siblings by Juliette Cazanave, The Forbidden Call: Women Priests by Marie Mandy, Les esprits libres by Bertrand Hagenmüller, Bosco grande [+leggi anche:
intervista: Giuseppe Schillaci
scheda film] by Giuseppe Schillaci and This Is My Body by Jérôme Clément-Wilz.
The Musical Documentary Competition notably consists of Joana Mallwitz – Momentum by Germany’s Günter Atteln (scheduled to open the festival), Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Johan Grimonprez
scheda film] by Belgium’s Johan Grimonprez, Unbound by John English and Tom Garner (the two founders of Spanish firm Otoxo), Giro di banda – The Touring Band by Italy’s Daniele Cini, the Swiss production Don’t Put Me In a Box by Romain Girard, Erik Satie: Reloaded by French director Gregory Monro, Swedish co-production Hayu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara by Alex Veitch, Brahim B. Ali, Mohamedsalem Uered and Anna Klara Åhrén, Orlando – The Life of a Composer in the Renaissance by Belgium’s Joachim Thôme, and Glass, My Unfulfilled Life [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by the Netherlands’ Rogier Kappers.
Six further sections are set to round off this tantalisingly rich line-up, namely the Impact Documentary line-up, the French-Speaking Documentaries Panorama, the European Stories offering, the Smart - Biarritz Immersive selection, New Talent from film schools and a short films selection.
Other events worthy of mention are the Focus on the Balkans, comprising 24 titles, a selection of three documentary series, and a variety of thematic sections (family titles, culinary and gastronomic documentaries, and works about the sea and the ocean), a Docs4Teens section and, on the “major premieres” agenda, Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles by Gordon and François-René Martin, the French-Spanish production Sorcières : chroniques d’un massacre by Marie Thiry and the Hungarian film Agent of Happiness by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbo.
Last but not least, FIPADOC PRO is due to unspool between 27 and 30 January, hosting conferences and pitches of 24 projects taking place within the Co-Production Forum as well as others dedicated to First European Films, not to mention workshops and presentations of French broadcasters’ line-ups.
(Tradotto dal francese)
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