FIPADOC announces full programme; postpones physical festival

FIPADOC – International Documentary Festival in Biarritz, France, has postponed screening dates until later in the year, leaving its Professional Days programme intact for 18 – 22 January 2021.

The new festival dates will be announced soon, yet the closure comes as a result of health precautions and the continued closure of screening venues in France. Below, however, #FIPADOC has released its complete lineup for 2021 with films representing 35 countries selected from over 1700 submissions.

In addition to the below-presented sections, the FIPADOC regional focus for 2021 is on the Visegrad region with several films coming from and representing #Czech Republic#, #Hungary, #Poland, and #Slovakia. There will also be sections dedicated to New Talents, Digital Experiences (Smart), and Family Films.

All information for the 2021 FIPDOC selections can be found – HERE

International Documentary

Merry Christmas, Yiwu (dir. Mladen Kovačević) – Serbia
The Mole Agent (dir. Maite Alberdi) – Chile
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo (dir. Javier Polo) – Spain
Downstream to Kinshasa (dir. Dieudo Hamadi) – Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium
The Painter and the Thief (dir. Benjamin Ree) – Norway
The Jump (dir. Giedre Zickyte) – Lithuania, Latvia, France
The Truffle Hunters (dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw) – USA
An Ordinary Country (dir. Tomasz Wolski) – Poland
And I Was There (dir. Eran Paz) – Israel
Radiograph of a Family (dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani) – Norway, Iran, Switzerland

French Documentary

Frontière Sud (dir. Joseph Gordillo)
Out of the Box (dir. Laurent Frapat)
D’après Arnal, Itinéraire d’un Crayon Rouge (dir. Christophe Vindis)
Silent Voice (dir. Reka Valerik)
Les Sorcières de l’Orient (dir. Julien Faraut)
Au Coeur Du Bois (dir. Claus Drexel)
L’homme qui Cherchait son Fils (dir. Stéphane Correa, Delphine Deloget)
Naître d’une Autre (dir. Cathie Dambel)
L’Etat du Texas Contre Melissa (dir. Sabrina van Tassel)
Akeji, le Souffle de la Montagne (dir. Mélanie Schaan, Corentin Leconte)
Le Sous-sol de Nos Demons (dir. Fanny Fontan)

Musical Documentary

Soul Kids (dir. Hugo Sobelman) – France
The Brahms Code (dir. Christian Berger) – Germany
Narcissus Off Duty (dir. Renato Terra, Ricardo Calil) – Brazil
The Band (dir. Ladislav Kaboš) – Slovakia
Tuning (dir. Ilan Yagoda) – Israel
Quinte & Sens (dir. François René Martin et Gordon) – France
Move Featuring Akram Khan (dir. Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai) – France
Indes Galantes (dir. Philippe Béziat) – France
Sistors with Transistors (dir. Lisa Rovner) – UK

Impact

A New Shift (dir. Jindřich Andrš) – Czech Republic
Aza Kivy (dir. Nantenaina Lova) – Madagascar, France&lt
Convention Citoyenne: Démocratie en Construction (dir. Naruna Kaplan de Macedo) – France
Jozi Gold (dir. Sylvia Vollenhoven, Fredrik Gertten) – South Africa, Sweden, Norway
A Life Line (dir. Marie-Monique Robin) – France
Rift Finfinnee (dir. Daniel Kötter) – Ethiopia, Germany
School of Hope (dir. Mohamed el Aboudi) – Finland, France, Morocco, USA
Son of Fukushima (dir. Beth Balawik, Beth Murphy) – France, USA
Life Beyond Monsanto (dir. Éric Guéret) – France
Wood (dir. Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger) – Austria, Romania, Germany

European Stories

Wolves at the Borders (dir. Martin Páv) – Czech Republic
Glory to the Queen (dir. Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze) – Austria
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (dir. Iryna Tsilyk) – Ukraine
Caminho LOnge (dir. Josu Martinez , Txaber Larreategi) – Spain
Acasa, My Home (dir. Radu Ciorniciuc) – Romania
One More Unto the Breach (dir. Michele Manzolini, Federico Ferrone) – Italy
Wake Up on Mars (dir. Dea Gjinovci) – Switzerland
La Tribu des Dieux (dir. Loïc Jourdain) – France
Please Hold the Line (dir. Pavel Cuzioc) – Austria
Collective (dir. Alexander Nanau) – Romania

French Panorama

Papa S’en Va (dir. Pauline Horovitz)
Le Formulaire (dir. Filip Flatau)
Nothing to be Afraid Of (dir. Silva Khnkanosian)
Banksy Wanted (dir. Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley)
Les Damnés, des Ouvriers en Abattoir (dir. Anne-Sophie Reinhardt)
Karim Contre Mittal (dir. Pedro Brito Da Fonseca)
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story (dir. David Korn-Brzoza)
Nothing to Be Afraid Of (dir. Silva Khnkanosian)
The Temptation of Reality (dir. Jérôme Laffont, Joachim Thome)
Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance (dir. Sylvain Louvet, Ludo G.)
A Summer in La Garoupe (dir. Francois Levy-Kuentz)

Short Films

407 Days (dir. Eléonore Coyette) – Haiti, Belgium
57 Días (dir. Mario Lumbreras González, Laura Brasero Blázquez) – Spain
A Little Bit of Paradise (dir. Andrzey Cichocki) – Poland
Almost Famous: The Lost Astronaut (dir. Ben Proudfoot) – USA
Brotherness (dir. David Power) – Romania, Germany, Italy
Confinés Dehors (dir. Julien Goudichaud) – France
E14 (dir. Peiman Zekavat) – UK
Father’s Days (dir. Andre Hörmann) – Germany, USA
Folie Douce, Folie Dure (dir. Marine Laclotte) – France
Gioja22 (dir. Stefano de Felici) – Italy
Guillermina (dir. Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy) – Cuba, Spain, Brazil
India Obscura (dir. Thibault Lukacs) – France
La Brenva en Hiver (dir. Thibaut Sichet) – France
La Longue Histoire des Tapissiers Patard (dir. Julia Mourri, Clément Boxebeld) – France
La Napoli di Mio Padre (Alessia Bottone) – Italy
My Family is a Circus (dir. Nina Landau) – Belgium
Rina and Zaki (dir. Ilay Mevorach) – Israel
Seahorse (dir. Nele Dehnenkamp) – Germany
Song Sparrow (dir. Farzaneh Omidvarnia) – Denmark, Iran
Souvenir Souvenir (dir. Bastien Dubois) – France
Tentative d’épuisement d’un Coquetier (dir. Carlotta Solari) – Belgium, Hungary, Portugal
The Game (dir. Roman Hodel) – Swizterland
Transition – ‘Xbuk Alo’ (dir. Aron Marty, Andi Bänziger) – Switzerland
We Have One Heart (dir. Katarzyna Warzecha) – Poland
Woman From Belarus (dir. ‪Irakli Kordzaia) – Georgia