With a selection of 32 documentary films nominated for the Jean-Loup Passek Award and the D. Quixote Prize, MDOC is back with different points of view on a world in crisis, and challenging us to think about universal issues, such as the society we live in and what is our place in it.
The Official Jury for this ninth edition is composed by Andrea Slovákova, documentary filmmaker and dean of the Film and TV School of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Maythem Ridha, Iraqi director and photographer, Maria Luna Rassa, artistic director, programmer and curator of MIDBO (Bogotá International Documentary Festival), Paulo Cunha, programmer and film teacher, and Waldir Xavier, image editor and sound designer. The D. Quixote Prize will be judged by Manuel Bernardo Cabral, director of the Curta Açores Film Festival and vice-president of FPCC – Portuguese Federation of Film Clubs, Waldemar Wilk, member of the Polish Federation of Film Clubs and Kjetil Ursin Almås, Norwegian filmmaker and current vice -president of the Tromsø Film Society.
The Jean-Loup Passek Award for Best Film Poster will be attributed by Mafalda Salgueiro, artist, architect and director, Marta Madureira, illustrator and teacher, and Simone Saibene, producer and director.
The theme of Off Screen summer course, with the general coordination of José da Silva Ribeiro, Alfonso Palazón Meseguer and Manoela dos Anjos Afonso, is Autobiographical Cinema/Autobiographies in Cinema, based on a review of the State of the Art and research projects in the Arts, Cinema and the Humanities.
The Frontal Shot film and photographic residencies, tutored by Pedro Sena Nunes, will produce four documentaries and three photographic projects about the territory.
Dialogue with Melgaço and the municipality also takes place through Who are we here?, a project organized by Álvaro Domingues and Daniel Maciel with the guidance and scientific monitoring of Albertino Gonçalves. In this context, emphasis should be given to the launch of the books “Who Are We Here – Castro Laboreiro and Lamas de Mouro” and Labuta (Toil), a photography book by João Gigante about the parish of Alvaredo, with a homonymous exhibition opening at the Parish’s Hall.
X-RAYDOC, the Festival section coordinated by Jorge Campos, features Luís Mendonça for a conversation/debate on Candid Eye, based on films by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor. Maythem Ridha guides the masterclass Tales from Iraq – the hybrid interface between reality and fiction, and director Vítor Hugo Costa will technically and aesthetically challenge young people to the universe of cinema, through film exercises using their mobile phones.
The Melgaço Museum of Cinema Jean-Loup Passek inaugurates Images From a Golden Age: German Cinema From the 10's to the 30's, exhibition of posters, some originals, photographs of films and portraits of actresses from the UFA (Universum FilmAG, a German distribution and production company founded in 1917).
For those who cannot participate in the entire festival, MDOC proposes, on the 5th and 6th of August, Hop to Melgaço, an intensive program with film screenings, dialogue with the directors, visits to the exhibitions, the Museum of Cinema Jean- Loup Passek and the Espaço Memória e Fronteira Museum.
Take the Leap. We are waiting for you in Melgaço.
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