Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC (Encounters of the Other Cinema), is a non-competitive international
documentary film festival held annually in
Ecuador since 2002.
The main venues are located in the cities of
Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...
and
Guayaquil, although a good part of the program is also screened in the cities of
Cuenca,
Manta,
Ibarra Ibarra (which means ''alluvial plain'' in Basque) may refer to:
Places
* Ibarra Canton, Ecuador
** Ibarra, Ecuador, the capital of Imbabura Province and the canton
*** Roman Catholic Diocese of Ibarra, inside the city
* Ibarra, Gipuzkoa, a lo ...
and
Portoviejo. In the last edition, the festival attracted 15 thousand spectators and screened a total of 96 films from all over the world.
EDOC's program is divided into thematic sections,
retrospective
A retrospective (from Latin ''retrospectare'', "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past. As a noun, ''retrospective'' has specific meanings in medicine, software development, popu ...
s, a panorama of the contemporary documentary production and the traditional section ‘How we are seen, how we see ourselves’ that shows films on Ecuador by national and international
filmmakers.
Among the retrospectives screened in EDOC there is the work of
Jean Rouch, the
Maysles brothers,
Avi Mograbi,
Johan van der Keuken,
Ross McElwee,
Sergei Loznitsa,
Nicolas Philibert,
Patricio Guzmán,
Joaquim Jordà, and others.
The festival's goal is to promote
freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recogni ...
and the development of Ecuadorian
documentary cinema which plays a double role: a means of artistic expression and a testimony of the social, political and cultural reality we live in. The festival also encourages a deeper understanding of other realities and cultures that are presented through the work of documentary filmmakers from all over the world.
External links
Official siteYouTube channel of EDOC(contains the movie trailers)
Culture of Ecuador
Documentary film festivals in Ecuador
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