The 19th edition of Play-Doc, International Film Festival, Tui, now has its official list of winners. Al amparo del cielo by Chilean director Diego Acosta has won the Play-Doc Award 2023 for the international competition. The international jury, composed of the renowned Portuguese filmmaker Rita Azevedo Gomes, the Indian filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur […]

Next Wednesday, 26th April, the 19th edition of the Play-Doc, Tui International Film Festival, will commence. An edition that remains faithful to the beginning of the event, which, throughout its history, has stood out for presenting retrospectives for the first time in Spain of cult filmmakers and truly legendary figures in cinema, and especially for […]

Play-Doc, which will hold its 19th edition from 26 April to 1 May in the city of Tui, announces the films that will make up the this year’s feature and short film competitions. The programme includes works by prestigious filmmakers, as well as works by emerging directors. All the films in competition are Spanish premieres. The renowned […]

Play-Doc, which will hold its 19th edition from 26th April to 1st May in the city of Tui, will present the international premiere of four short films that the renowned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) filmed in the summer of 1967, as part of the entrance exams to INSAS (Institut national supérieur des arts du […]

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 […]