Until the next 30 September you will be able to enjoy the 8th edition of the Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (FIDBA), that due to the global health situation is developed online.

The event is organized by FUNDOC, the Foundation for Higher Studies in Documentary Film, and produced by 996Films. It has the support of INCAA, the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and the Patronage Program of the City of Buenos Aires, among others.

The festival will screen more than 240 movies from 46 countries, in ten competitions and will have ten thematic focuses. This digital version of the festival, It is carried out through the web www.fidba.com.ar in alliance with the international digital platforms VEODOC and OCTUBRETV.COM. This will allow the programming to be viewed throughout the country and, also, there will be titles available for Latin America with free access.

FIDBA 2020 will have a careful selection of films belonging to the genre of non-fiction, works that renew the expressive possibilities of cinema, they stress hegemonic discourses, build resistance to comfort and promote critical thinking.

Regarding programming and how this new modality was thought, Mario Durrieu, Artistic Director of FIDBA, points out that “We want to recover some of the‘ festival frenzy ’, not lose the incomparable feeling we feel when we go from one room to the other. We want to give you and take advantage of the time that each film has, as if we were going from one function to the other, from one room to the other. That is why we created a display system with a time span and not indeterminate. So that it is not a passive festival. We want the viewer to interact with the festival. Look for, plan what you want to see”.

And add: “In addition to maintaining our sections with a high cinematographic level, We also consider changing the screen for this viewer who can pause the visualization and we look for options that can dialogue with this moment that we are living. We took into account that the screen is not a movie screen and we addressed the message to the cinephile, as usual, but also who can participate in a festival like this for the first time”.

By last, reflects on this new online modality and recognizes that “although the rooms are lost, one hundred percent of the country is won because - in this way- you reach places that we could never have reached physically. We have a festival designed in cinematographic quality, but adapted to these screen times”.