Presentación - Miradas Afroindígenas
Presentation
Presentation
A space for documentary filmmakers
The DOCanarias International Documentary Film Festival takes place in Puerto de la Cruz, a crossroads of cultures where winds and ocean currents have historically brought peoples and cultures together. Just as in the work ‘Homenaje al Mar’ by the Canarian artist César Manrique – the festival’s emblem – which establishes a dialogue between Africa and America through the waves of the Atlantic that converge on the Canary Islands. DOCanarias is thus conceived as a space for non-fiction films that bring us stories from Africa and Latin America, articulating a distinct and original cinematic language of reality, which in turn allows for the rewriting of narratives.
DOCanarias is also a film industry, strengthening the development and bringing together of projects, born of reflection to foster cooperation and the exchange of knowledge between people from diverse regions of the Global South. The visual poetics we showcase at DOCanarias, thanks to the provocative and personal vision of the filmmakers, connects us with the social sentiments of a planet in need of wisdom and trust. A cinema that is tolerant and crude, mysterious and impassioned, beautiful and necessary, which the DOCanarias team has been developing for 20 years at festivals such as MIRADASDOC and the MIRADAS AFROINDÍGENA laboratory.
DOCanarias is also a film industry, strengthening the development and bringing together of projects, born of reflection to foster cooperation and the exchange of knowledge between people from diverse regions of the Global South. The visual poetics we showcase at DOCanarias, thanks to the provocative and personal vision of the filmmakers, connects us with the social sentiments of a planet in need of wisdom and trust. A cinema that is tolerant and crude, mysterious and impassioned, beautiful and necessary, which the DOCanarias team has been developing for 20 years at festivals such as MIRADASDOC and the MIRADAS AFROINDÍGENA laboratory.
Film programming
the contemporary gaze of non-fiction filmmaking
Non-fiction cinema adopts the subjectivity of its creators. Our festival is looking for the contemporary gaze of non-fiction filmmaking in order to multiply the vantage points from which we take in reality and all its complexity. Those are the films that allow us to ask questions. The kind of cinema we champion is that which appeals to people’s curiosity and sparks their intelligence, an intelligence that is sensitive and empathetic. It encourages us to take an active role and break away from a monolithic and individualizing media narrative. Taking a seat in our festival’s cinema means participating in an act that returns us to the collective, to being curious about our fellow humans, to that which binds us together.