PLAY-DOC 2023 CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN!
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The festival reached an audience of more than 45,000 online and on-site, the highest figures of its history. The nineteenth edition of Play-Doc, International Film Festival in Tui will be held from 26th April to 1st May 2023. The call for entries for Play-Doc 2023 is now open. The Galician festival’s collaboration with DAFilms, the global streaming […]
The 18th edition of Play-Doc, the International Documentary Festival in Tui announces it’s awards. Terra que marca, by the young Portuguese director Raul Domingues, had obtained Play-Doc Prize 2022 in the international feature film competition. The jury of the international feature and short film competitions composed of Émilie Cauquy, head of HENRI, the video-on-demand platform of the Cinémathèque […]
French filmmaker Arnaud des Pallières will attend the festival to show his latest film Journal d’Amerique (2022), which had its world premiere in the Encounters section of the 2022 Berlinale. Footnote (2022) by Chinese filmmaker Zhengfan Yang will have its Spanish premiere in Tui after its world premiere at the latest International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Belgian filmmaking duo […]
Pier Paolo Pasolini fotografía de ©Paolo Di Paolo The celebrated American photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has once again chosen the Galician festival for the Spanish premiere, in a special session, of his most recent film The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo (2021). The director of the legendary Let’s Get Lost about […]
In a trajectory that will soon span two decades, the Tui festival has stood out for presenting first-time Spanish retrospectives dedicated both to renowned directors and legendary figures of documentary cinema, as well as to many other forgotten, censored, lost or simply unknown filmmakers. This work of recovery, rediscovery and vindication is strongly present again […]
Walter Saxer, the Swiss producer of Werner Herzog, will attend the Galician festival to present a film never seen before in Spain. There will also be an exclusive presentation of the last recovered work by the German filmmaker Wolf Eckart Bühler. The Play-Doc organisation continues to reveal the programme of what will be […]
Throughout its history, Play-Doc has not only presented Spain’s first retrospectives of acclaimed filmmakers, attended by genuine legends of documentary cinema. The festival has also endeavoured to rediscover so many other wonderful filmmakers whose work has been ignored, or censored, or is simply unknown to the vast majority of people. That is the case of Manfred Kirchheimer, […]
Ante a crise do Covid-19, Play-Doc non poderá celebrarse nas datas previstas (29 de abril -3 de maio) A organización do festival segue traballando desde casa e anunciará as novas datas en canto sexa posible.
Submission is now closed! Thank you so much for your participation! The Festival will notify the selection results to the applicants of the selected films before April 1st, 2020.