Six days of screenings and activities with non-fiction cinema at the center: Documenta Madrid, the International Film Festival of the Madrid City Council, returns one more year and does so in 2024 to celebrate its XXI edition from Tuesday May 28th until Sunday.
The event (DM24), which in the words of the organizers brings together “the most daring documentary films on the national and international scene”, will screen more than twenty films, will host cycles and activities such as workshops or a master class and will have special screenings such as the opening -with October in Madrid (1964) by Marcel Hanoun- and the closing -with Val del Omar: Poética cuadrofónica sin fin (1982)-, by the director himself with live music by Fernando Vacas.
As a sign that both the vocation of the festival in general and the genre in particular is an invitation not to disengage from the world, among the titles in competition to be screened is Daniel Mann’s Under a Blue Sun, which addresses “the Israeli occupation of Palestine, swinging between sharp irony and reflection on the past and present of the territory,” says DM24.
Where can I see the Documenta Madrid screenings?
Documenta Madrid Program will take place in five venues:
- Cineteca Madrid. Headquarters (Plaza de Legazpi, 8)
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (calle de Santa Isabel, 52)
- Filmoteca Española (calle de Santa Isabel, 3)
- Fundación Casa de México en España (calle de Alberto Aguilera, 20)
- School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM) (Calle de Juan de Orduña, 3. Pozuelo de Alarcón)
Tickets
Tickets for Documenta Madrid screenings range from €0 to €3.50 and for other activities range from free to €15.
You can buy tickets (or reserve a place free of charge, as the case may be) for the screenings or activities you are interested in by clicking on the name of each one of them on the web page of the event.