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Filmes do Homem

Melgaço International
Documentary Film Festival

FILMES DO HOMEM - Melgaço International Documentary Festival, organized by the Melgaço Town Hall and the AO-NORTE Association, intends to promote and disclose social and ethnographic cinema, reflecting with the films about identity, memory and the border and to contribute for an audiovisual archive about the region.

FILMES DO HOMEM is marked by three main components:

  • Programming from a competitive exhibition of documentaries in the running for the Jean-Loup Passek award, selected according to an annual theme, and including guest films. FILMES DO HOMEM - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival will select documentaries for 2015 under the general theme migrations. All films should demonstrate the author's point of view about aspects related with social, individual, cultural and identity issues provoked by moving to another country, region or home.
  • Outside the Screen, a Summer Seminar drawn from the Festival's chosen theme. Theme for 2015 Cinema and Migrations.
  • Production of documentaries about the region in each edition of the Festival.