NEWS 04/10/06 DOCÚPOLIS HELD A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE MOST RECENT PORTUGUESE DOCUMENTARY The festival is completed with a round table which will welcome outstanding personalities of the Portuguese documentary world. Among the proposals of the VI International Documentary Festival of Barcelona of this year the Country Retrospective stands out the other parallel activities. This section portrays the reality of national cinematographies that show the complexity of the country and trace a wide panoramic of the several and most interesting ways that the documentary uses to draw and react against its social context. The guest country to open a new approach of this section is Portugal. From this edition the Retrospective will propose an approaching to the documentary cinema and reality of the emergent European countries. Portugal is this year’s election due to the vitality of the documentary genre in the country. Films from what is called the new Portuguese documentary will be projected, a generation of filmmakers that are working since early nineties and whose works clash in the treatment of the fundamental themes for the Portuguese context such as the slow disappearance of the rural world and the reality of the ex colonies, using a demanding and combative character. The cycle, organised by the cultural Asociation Procur.arte http://www.procurarte.org, with the support of the Video and Cinema Association Tercer Ojo, the Instituto Camões, the ICAM/Ministerio da Cultura portugués, Sublimages, Dclic and Casa Asia, is composed of nine films that will be projected in the Docúpolis programme in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona(CCCB). The varied but cohesionate proposal consists in various elements such as the approximation to the landscape and people of Tras-os-Montes by Pedro Sena Nunes in Márgens, the rebellious reflexions around the Revolución de los Claveles by Sérgio Tréfaut (Um outro país), the discovery of the traditional architecture of Cavo Verde through the eyes of a great architect as Álvaro Siza (O arquitecto e a cidade velha, by Catarina Alves Costa), or the Súper 8 goldsmithry and the domestic filmations in the portrait of the guitarist Carlos Paredes made by Edgar Pêra (Movimientos perpetuos). The homage that the Portuguese Pedro Costa pays to two important elements of the European cinema such as Jean-Marie Straub and Danièlle Huillet (Onde jaz o teu sorriso?), the inquiry in the dictatorship’s archives in Natureza morta de Susana by Sousa Dias, the look at the formation of the Mozambican cinema in Kuxa Kanema by Margarida Cardoso, and the touching portray of a world that is disappearing as the antique Portuguese colony Goa, in the La dama de chandor by Catarina Mourão. The section will be completed with the round table opened to the public that will bring together personalities of the documentary cinema on Saturday 7th October at 19h00 in CCCB. Catarina Alves, Portuguese documentalist will chair the table and it is foreseen the presence of the filmmaker Egar Pêra (works from these two filmmakers will be screened during the festival) and the filmmaker, curator (in the important documentary seminar Dock's Kingdom) and universitary researcher Nuno Lisboa. It will be proposed to debate about how the production restrictions in Portugal have supposed new formal answers. Also they will talk about the differences and similarities with the Spanish and Catalan case. Another topic to discuss will be the frequent phenomena of the incursions of fiction directors in the documentary world. Finally, several documentaries of the cycle will be decomposed and recomposed from the last perspectives.
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