{"id":388728,"date":"2025-09-01T06:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388728\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T06:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:35:15","slug":"nine-premieres-feature-in-this-years-iberodocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388728\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine premieres feature in this year’s IberoDocs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 11th Scottish Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival (IberoDocs) takes place from 10 to 28 September with six Scottish premieres, two UK premieres and one international premier taking place in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.<\/p>\n

The Opening Night Premiere is Home features Somewhere Else the multi-award winning animated documentary about deportation and displacement told from the viewpoint of young immigrants.<\/p>\n

The Scottish premiere of The Boy and the Suit of Lights will be shown at the Filmhouse, while Voco \u2013 Edinburgh Royal Terrace will host networking drinks with IberoDocs and the Scottish Documentary Institute, accompanied by a special live soundtrack performance by Noelia Blanca Basilio.<\/p>\n

The international premiere of Mar\u00eda la Portuguesa will be accompanied by live music, Spanish wines, and a celebration of the \u201cIberian hug\u201d between Spain and Portugal. It will take place at Edinburgh\u2019s French Institute with the support of the Consulate General of Spain in Edinburgh, the Cervantes Chair at the University of Edinburgh, and Cam\u00f5es \u2013 Instituto da Coopera\u00e7\u00e3o e da L\u00edngua in partnership with the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

This year the films are connected by themes of searching and the sea, identity, belonging, fluidity and transformation. There is a new environmental strand The Sea bringing together four short films by female filmmakers in a collaboration with DocNomads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organisers say this is the most ambitious edition of the festival yet and invite Scottish audiences to engage with the programme and meet the directors at Q&A events. The festival hs moved from spring to autumn in an effort to engage even more with young audiences.<\/p>\n

The festival features more than simply films, and includes live music, parties, a director masterclass and an art exhibition at McDonald Road Library and Fountainbridge Library featuring work by Pilar Garcia de Le\u00e1niz.<\/p>\n

Mar Felices, Director of IberoDocs, said: \u201cWe look to the sea in search of peace, of answers\u2014to gather our thoughts and uncover what lies deep within us. We dive into the sea to shed the weight of our bodies, to cleanse ourselves, to transform. This is something that all the characters in the selected films do at some point\u2014they encounter the sea in their personal search.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all on a journey of continuous searching\u2014especially if you\u2019re an immigrant, or if you don\u2019t quite fit into predefined boxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m truly excited about the new doors that will open as these 15 talented Ibero-American artists, invited to this edition of the festival, come together in Scotland. They will inspire and be inspired by our audiences in the cities where IberoDocs is now rooted\u2014Edinburgh and Glasgow\u2014as well as in the new cities we\u2019re expanding into.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, I\u2019ve come to realise that a decade of hard work and our passion for documentary film and Ibero-American culture has finally borne fruit: we now have a strong, well-established network of local and international support. There is meaning in our journey of continuous search as immigrants\u2014and that purpose has become clearer. Scotland has become our home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"Home is Somewhere Else<\/p>\n

\"\"Maria la Portuguesa<\/p>\n

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Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.
Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n

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