For the second time, the French-speaking Ciné-Doc association is organizing the national documentary film festival Let’s Doc! From November 1 to 30, more than ninety films are screened in more than 140 locations in a decentralized manner throughout Switzerland.
This year, fifty cinemas, thirteen libraries, nineteen socio-cultural centers, thirteen film clubs, museums and churches as well as some partner festivals such as the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon are participating in the Let’s Doc national documentary film festival. ! Partners were able to choose from the thirty films offered or suggest films themselves.
From the Katholische Kirche de Kriens to the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchâtel, via the Cantonal Library of Bellinzona, the Swiss Cinematheque in Lausanne, the Cinémas de Sion or even the Espace noir de St-Imier, a constellation of places organize sessions. The majority of screenings are followed by discussions and speaking engagements. At the same time, a cultural mediation program is being deployed in six prisons and around ten schools.
>> The interview with Gwennaël Bolomey, founder of the association which organizes the festival at 12:30 p.m. on October 30:
“It’s not quite a festival, it’s a meeting, a meeting of documentaries. It’s the idea of being decentered, democratic. We have this idea of bringing films to all public, throughout Switzerland and not just in big cities”, underlines Gwennaël Bolomey, founder of the Ciné-Doc association, in the 12:30 of October 30.
“No Other Land”
The festival opened with “No Other Land” by Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, a collective of four Israeli-Palestinian activists. Their film won the best documentary prize at the Berlinale and, last April, the audience prize at Visions du Réel.
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Ciné-Doc is an association founded in 2016 to promote documentary cinema, mainly in French-speaking Switzerland. Last year, she launched the national Let’s Doc! The Swiss festival is inspired by the LETsDOK documentary film days in Germany and Documentary Film Month in France.
“Documentary films are the views of filmmakers who have invested themselves, who have sometimes spent years making their film. Filmmakers who have immersed themselves in everyday life and realities and who, through their gaze, transmit multiple and various”, underlines Gwennaël Bolomey.
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Let’s Doc! Festival, throughout Switzerland, from November 1 to 30, 2024.
