Documenta Madrid will celebrate its tenth edition from May 5 to 12

It will renew its Official Section, which is acquiring greater international importance, and will include informative sections and a parallel cycle.

The Madrid International Documentary Festival, Documenta Madrid, will celebrate a new edition next May under the direction of Mikel Olaciregui and the new Cineteca team (the entity that organizes the festival).

With a totally different approach in which the different sections have been reduced and the international presence has been reinforced, but faithful to its objective of developing, promoting and disseminating the audiovisual panorama of a documentary nature, of the “cinema of the real”, to the extent that it aims to be a faithful reflection of the different social, political, cultural, economic, artistic and environmental realities that exist in the world.

Coinciding with the tenth anniversary, Documenta Madrid is renewed by concentrating the competition in a single Official Section made up of two competitive sections that will host the best productions of the year, not released in Spain, prioritizing the quality of the selected films, regardless of their country of origin.

The competition will be divided into two categories: Feature films (duration greater than 60 minutes) whose nature privileges the narrative point of view, information and/or social interest about current events in our world and short films (maximum 30 minutes long and that are not part of a series).

In both cases, the selected films will be eligible for the following awards:

• First Prize (endowed with 10,000 euros in the feature film category and 4,000 euros for short films)
• Second Prize (5,000 euros for long films and 2,000 euros for short films)
• Special Jury Prize without financial award
• Audience Award worth 3,000 euros for feature films and 1,000 euros for short films.

The composition of the juries (both for feature films and short films) will be announced once the selection process is closed.

Likewise, the festival will offer two informative sections dedicated, in this case, to national production: Panorama of the Spanish Documentary of the Year, which will collect the most relevant titles produced in our country in recent months and that have not yet been released in Madrid; and Retrospective: Spanish cinema in the Transition, a journey to one of the richest and most exciting stages in the history of Spanish documentary, the years of the Transition, which will allow the viewer to review essential titles as well as discover new proposals and looks at the time.

Cineteca will be the official headquarters of the festival, hosting the screenings of the two sections in competition and the Spanish Documentary Panorama of the Year. The festival maintains collaboration with other venues by extending the screenings of the retrospective Spanish cinema in the transition to the Cine Doré (Filmoteca Española) and hosting in its programming the cycle organized by Casa de América on Mexican Documentary: Carta blanche to Elena Fortes, selected by the Director of the Ambulante Festival. Likewise, special screenings of documentaries that Casa Arab schedules coinciding with the festival will be added to the programming.