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Best of Doc #6 porta il meglio del documentario in più di 70 sale in Francia

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- L’evento itinerante si svolgerà dal 5 al 19 marzo con 15 lungometraggi documentari (di cui 10 in concorso) in programma

Best of Doc #6 porta il meglio del documentario in più di 70 sale in Francia
No Other Land di Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham e Rachel Szor

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Upwards of 70 French cinemas are set to play host to Best of Doc #6, a festival unspooling between 6 and 19 March which has noted a steady increase in its reach, since last year saw 65 cinemas organising upwards of 200 screenings and an 85% rise in viewer numbers on 2023.

This touring festival will offer up 10 films from among the very best documentaries released over the past year. Each of the participating cinemas will showcase at least three of the selected films, whose screenings will be attended by the filmmakers or other professionals involved in the movies. We’ll also see a high school jury (in partnership with Tenk and the film education programme "One hundred years of young people’s cinema") awarding a Coup de Cœur Prize, with the line-up further rounded off by screenings of three feature films in premieres, one previously unreleased title, one heritage film and five short films.

Set apart by a political situation to which the films in question add genuine poetic force, prioritising words and human communication, this 2025 competition notably includes No Other Land [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham
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by Palestinian directors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal alongside Israelis Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (awarded the Best Documentary and Audience awards in Berlin last year, nominated at the 2025 Oscars), Bye Bye Tiberias [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lina Soualem
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by French-Algerian director Lina Soualem (unveiled in Venice’s Gionate degli Autori line-up and nominated for 2025’s Best Documentary César and Lumière awards) and Journey into Gaza by Italy’s Piero Usberti (likewise nominated for the 2025 Lumière award). Competing alongside them are It Is Night in America [+leggi anche:
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by Brazil’s Ana Vaz (discovered in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up), Apolonia Apolonia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lea Glob
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by Denmark’s Lea Glob (triumphant in the IDFA), Coconut Head Generation by French-Congolese director Alain Kassanda (honoured in the Cinéma du Réel Festival), Anhell69 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Theo Montoya
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by Colombia’s Theo Montoya (unveiled in Venice’s Critics’ Week), Knit’s Island [+leggi anche:
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by the French trio composed of Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h (victorious in Visions du Réel), and two movies (unveiled in Berlin) by Iranian Mehran Tamadon: Where God Is Not [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mehran Tamadon
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and My Worst Enemy [+leggi anche:
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Stealing focus out of competition, meanwhile, we’ll find Afternoons of Solitude [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Albert Serra
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by Spain’s Albert Serra (awarded the Golden Shell for Best Film in San Sebastián and due for release in France by Dulac Distribution on 26 March), Who Cares? [+leggi anche:
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by Belgium’s Alexe Poukine (rewarded in last year’s Cinéma du Réel Festival – due for release in France on 4 June), My Stolen Planet [+leggi anche:
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by Iran’s Farahnaz Sharifi (discovered in Berlin’s Panorama section and triumphant in Thessaloniki), We Are Inside [+leggi anche:
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by Lebanon’s Farah Kassem (awarded a Special Mention in Visions du Réel) and, on the heritage side, Black Harvest (1992) by Australian directors Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly.

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