Docville
| DOCVILLE - International Documentary Film Festival | |
|---|---|
 Docville Logo. | |
| Location | Leuven, Belgium |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Awards |
Best Belgian Documentary Best international documentary Best ConScience Documentary |
| Number of films | 83 (2013) |
| Language | Dutch, English |
| http://www.docville.be/ | |
The International Documentary Film Festival Docville is an annual documentary film festival set in Leuven, Belgium.
Docville was founded in 2005 as a thematical series within the arthouse movie theatre Cinema ZED. In the next edition the festival added competitive sections and became independent of the movie theatre. Docville takes place in the beginning of May of each year in different locations within the city of Leuven. The festival centre is located within the Arts Center STUK. It is the only annual, competitive documentary-only film festival in Belgium. Edition 2014 will take place between May 2nd-11th.
Programming
The festival has three main competitions: Jury award for best Belgian documentary, Jury award for best international documentary and Jury award for best documentary within the ConScience competition. Next to these recurring section, the festival has each year a selection of non-competitive programming, which vary each year.
The festival focusses on auteur driven documentaries: documentaries that reflect the director's personal creative vision with regards to cinematography, content, structure, productional context, ...
Awards
1st edition Docville (September 28th - October 3rd, 2005)
No awards
2nd edition Docville (September 27th - October 3rd, 2006)
- Best Belgian documentary: Rwanda, Les Collines Parlent (director: Bernard Bellefroid)
- Best international documentary: Last Supper (Sweden, directors Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström)
3rd edition Docville (May 30th - June 5th, 2007)
- Best Belgian documentary: Het Rijksadministratief Centrum (director: Yves Cantraine)
- Best international documentary: The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (Denemarken, regie: Pernille Rose Grønkjær)
4th edition Docville (May 10th - 17th, 2008)
- Best Belgian documentary: Le Flic, La Juge et L'assassin (director: Yves Hinant)
- Best international documentary: Stranded (France, director: Gonzalo Arijon)
5th edition Docville (May 2nd -9th 2009)
- Best Belgian documentary: Zondag Gaat Het Gebeuren (director: Joeri Vlekken)
- Best international documentary: Dear Zachary (USA, director: Kurt Kuenne)
6th edition Docville (May 1st - 8th 2010)
- Best Belgian documentary: Vlasman (director: Jan Lapeire)
- Best international documentary: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? (Spain, directors: Norberto López Amado, Carlos Carcas)
7th edition Docville (April 29th - 7th 2011)
- Best Belgian documentary: L'Ile Déserte (director: Bram Van Paesschen)
- Best international documentary: Marwencol (USA, director: Jeff Malmberg)
- ConScience award: Rainmakers (The Netherlands, director: Floris-Jan Van Luyn)
8th edition Docville (April 27th - May 5th 2012)
- Best Belgian documentary: Empire of Dust (director: Steve Thielemans)
- Best international documentary: Il Castello (Italy, director: Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti)
- ConScience award: The Ambassador (Denmark, director: Mads Brügger)
9th edition Docville (May 3rd - 11th 2013)
- Best Belgian documentary: Behind the Redwood Curtain (director: Liesbeth De Ceulaer)
- Best international documentary: The Expedition to the End of the World (Denmark, director: Daniel Dencik)
- ConScience award: A River Changes Course (USA, Cambodja, director: Kalyanee Mam)
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