DOCUMENTARY / REPORTAGE
The 1950s saw a turning point in documentary filmmaking with its appearance on news programmes on the TV channels that were just starting to appear. As documentary filmmakers became journalists and their documentaries began to be valued less as artistic pieces and more as a tool in pursuit of information and knowledge, there was a split between the concept of documentaries as the heir to stylistic currents in the history of filmmaking and the new genre being formed in TV news programmes: reportage.
The surge in interest in this genre in recent years has meant l'Alternativa has received a number of extremely interesting documentaries tacking a wide range of burning social and political issues.
Evolved and enriched reportage now combines technical and artistic expressive means borrowed from both historical documentaries and fiction to represent, analyse and try to understand and see the world, and this has been a key factor for programming this section.
Immigration, the exploitation of the workforce, the conservation of nature, the reshaping of memory, clandestine lives or the power of music as a tie and channel between different cultures are some of the subjects covered in these reportages.
A Working Mom Limor Pinhasov (Israel / USA/ Bolivia)
Cronache basche - Euskal kronikak Matteo Scanni (Italy)
Himmel auf Erden Florian Riegel (Germany)
Invisible Roz Mortimer (Great Britain)
Los próximos pasados Lorena Muñoz (Argentina)
Malon 9 Kohavim Ido Haar (Israel)