A wide-reaching retrospective devoted to contemporary non-fiction cinema. Contemporary documentary cinema is so incredibly varied and versatile that even the classic notion of the term has to be questioned. Requirements traditionally associated with the documentary (like objectivity, a serious tone, and lack of expressiveness) are no longer considered essential and can even be deliberately avoided. Rather than documentaries, it seems more fitting to talk of non-fiction cinema, a term with the virtue of encompassing this new heterodoxy of the genre, rich in multifarious expressions, alternative paths, and unexpected solutions. The new cinema based on real materials shuns the reporting format and seeks other forms of recording the world around us and our relationship with it. The .doc - New paths of non-fiction cycle aims to show some of the most suggestive proposals to have appeared the world over in the last decade.

Featured Works:

Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000); The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple, 2000); En construcción (José Luis Guerin, 2001); Le souvenir d'un avenir (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001); Auge/Maschine- Parts 1, 2, 3 (Harun Farocki, 2002-2003); Los rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003); S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge (Rithy Panh, 2003); The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth, 2003); Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Parts 1,2,3 (Bing Wang, 2003); The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005, pictured); The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, 2005); Más allá del espejo (Joaquim Jordá, 2006); Lucio (José María Goenaga and Aitor Arregi, 2007); My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007); Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito, 2007)

Program information:
.doc - New paths of non-fiction

Other retrospectives at the Festival include:
Don Siegel