NEWS

< back to news

Globalisation and variety of topics among the selected documentaries for the Docúpolis Prize

The competitors have documented diverse realities, speaking both of actuality and history, for the categories of Best Documentary, Best First Documentary and Best Short Film

The VII International Documentary Festival of Barcelona – Docúpolis has published the selection of documentaries for the competition. The organization has selected a dozen of finalists for each of the prizes of the official competition: Docúpolis Award, Best First Documentary Award, and Gran Angular Award – TVE Catalunya for the Best Short Documentary film.

The selected documentaries for the Docúpolis Award compete to win 6.000 euros. The finalists have been chosen for their remarkable works of rigor and artistic ability to explain the reality in many different places around the world. Human conflicts, artistic reflections, violation of human rights and problems derivated from globalization, as the unfair relations or the immigration, are some of the topics which have been chosen by the directors.

The selected competitors are:

  • A Walk to Beautiful - Mary Olive Smith (USA)
  • Can Tunis - Paco Toledo & Jose González Morandi (Spain)
  • Djiarama (Welcome) - Chus Barrera & Alicia Fernandez Carmena (Spain)
  • Jimmy Rosenberg – De vader, de zoon & het talent - Jeroen Berkvens (Netherlands)
  • Mein Vater, der Türke (My father, the turk) - Marcus Vetter (Germany)
  • Nach der Musik (The father’s music) - Igor Heitzmann (Germany)
  • Naná’s Diary - Paschoal Samora (Brazil)
  • ¿Qué tienes debajo del sombrero? (What’s under your hat?) - Lola Barera & Iñaki Peñafiel (Spain)
  • Alguna Tristeza (Some kind of Sadness) - Juan Alejandro Ramírez (Perú)
  • The Mothers' House - Francois Verster (South Africa)
  • Utopia 79 - Joan López LLoret (Spain)
  • Welcome Europe -  Bruno Ulmer (France)

The finalist of the Best First Documentary Film wins the filmdiffusion by the distributor Ermedia. Docúpolis was attracted by projects of visual risks and originally stories. They all have in common high freshness and innovation.

The selection for the Best First Documentary Film is:

  • A verdade do Gato (The truth of the cat) - Jeremy Hammers (Belgium)
  • Best in the West - Maryam Kashani (USA)
  • Dance for all - Viviane Blumenschein & Elena Bromund (Germany)
  • Encounter Point - Julia Bacha & Ronit Avni (USA)
  • Ich will dich – Begegnungen mit Hilde Domin (I want you – Meetings with Hilde Domin) - Anna Ditges (Germany)
  • Nama saya Jakarta  (My name is Yakarta) - Camino San José Gutiérrez (Spain)
  • Ploha - Kostana Banovic (Netherlands)
  • Safa shel af echad  (The No man’s language) - Dana Levy (Israel)
  • Studio Berçot, à l’école de la mode (Studio Berçot, the school of fashion) - Valérie Garel (France)
  • Sueños de Polvorón (Polvorón’s dreams) - Gabriel Alijo (Argentina)
  • The Ballad of Betty French - Adam Gutch (England)
  • Wanted - Irati Elorrieta Agirre (Germany)

The short films selected for the Gran Angular Award – TVE Catalunya are:

  • A Ilha da Boa Vida  (The Island of Good Life) - Mercês Tomaz Gomes (Portugal)
  • As Is Their Wont - Galia Adamovich (Belarus)
  • Dumili - Shorena Tevzadze (Georgia)
  • Everyday life of Roma children from Block 71 - Ivana Todorovic (Serbia)
  • JR - Expo 2 rue - Chiel Aldershoff (Netherlands)
  • Les hommes invisibles (The invisible men) - Valérianne Poidevin (Switzerland)
  • Libro de Familia (Family Book) - Alberto Bougleux (Spain)
  • Liza - Taras Tomenko (Ucraine)
  • Lo útimo en moda (The latest on fashion) - Arturo Sampson Alazraki (Spain)
  • Praia de Monte Gordo (Monte Gordo Beach) - Oscar Clemente & Sofia Trincao (Spain)
  • ShantyGARDENtown - Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti (France)
  • Zo is dat (The way it is) - Elizabeth Rocha Salgado (Netherlands)

The selected documentaries for the OFF DOCÚPOLIS award are:

  • Descaminhos (Dead end) - Marilia Rocha, Luis Felipe Fernández & Alexandre Baxter / Joao Flores / Maria de Fátima Augusto / Leandro HBL / Armando Mendz & Cristiano Abud (Brazil)
  • HaYeladot Mi Brazil (The girls from Brazil) - Nili Tal (Israel)
  • El reverso de la realidad (The other side of reality) - Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado (Spain)
  • El telón de azúcar (Sugar curtain) - Camila Guzmán Urzua (France)
  • Reinalda del Carmen, mi mama y yo (Reinalda del Carmen, mi mother and me) - Lorena Giachino Torréns (Chile)
  • Reyita (Little Queen) - Olivia Acosta & Elena Ortega (Spain)
  • Roaming around - Brigitte Maria Bertele (Germany)
  • Tierra Roja (Red Earth) - Ramiro Gómez (Paraguay)
  • Yo Presidente (Me, the president) - Mariano Cohn & Gaston Duprat (Argentina)