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\| year by year \| invited filmmakers \| past films screened \| auxiliary texts	2015	All the frontiers. The program leads us on a route through “All the frontiers”, taken both literally and in its broadest sense. Films about geograhical borders between countries and more particularly referring to the geopolitical ... ❦
The seminar was launched in 2000 as an international event. During the first four years, alternate editions of international and national scope were organized. In 2004, Doc’s Kingdom didn’t take place and, since 2005, it has happened annually in its international form. In 2013, after a two-year break, the seminar took place in the Azores islands of Faial and Pico. 2015 signaled the beginning of a new cycle in Arcos de Valdevez.	2013	Idea of an island. A program of utopian and dystopian visions of the world we live in: insulated places where the entire world is condensed, discovered territories where, as in a stratified rock, different ages and origins, solitary gestures ... ❦
In twelve editions, 241 films were screened, around 210 guests were present and over 1100 participants registered. Most of the films screened were premières in Portugal and many Portuguese films premièred in Doc’s Kingdom.	2010	The archive image. Beyond the use of archival images, the notion of archive at the origin of the act of filming. Gathering filmmakers who have intensely worked with previously existent footage, and not forgetting that side of their activity, we propose the analysis of different paths ... ❦
	2009	Requestioning the political image. Still on the ashes of a century that was of politics and of the cinema, how can we address today the relationships between these two fields? Starting by evoking seminal gestures of an era when the terms of that dichotomy had already been radically questioned ... ❦
	2008	Landscape, the work of time. Landscape as one of the possible key elements to analyse the whole movement of modern cinema and some of its present-day radical experiences. Landscape as crossroads of different contemporary arts ... ❦
	2007	The circulation of the word. The word read, the spoken word, the voice, the text. In and off. The monologue, the dialogue, the talk, the interview, the circulating word. How the word sets itself with the image, how it inscribes in it or confronts ... ❦
	2006	A point of view about the world is a point of view about cinema. If one expects any film to incorporate a point of view about the world, today one should also note the importance of stressing almost the inverse: in the midst of the present audiovisual saturation, the productive use of the means ... ❦
	2005	Rural life, landscape, memory: we offer them as the subject matter(s) of cinema – and we therefore suggest that they also be translated, right from the start, through themes such as gaze, interaction (confronting the camera), movement ... ❦
	2003	In this edition, dedicated to Portuguese documentaries, and starting from the viewing of a limited number of films, chosen for their originality and representativeness, we intend to give rise to a discussion about the paths of contemporary documentary cinema ... ❦
	2002	The seminar concentrates on strong examples (not quantity) and on film language, rather than on production or distribution issues. It aims to look into the documentary potential to renew the whole cinema practice, as well as ... ❦
	2001	This showcase’s programming is guided by our concern in decentralizing the exhibition of Portuguese films. We tried to create a space of visibility for the most recent national production, contributing for the creation of a space ... ❦
	2000	In the last few years, documentary film has had a clear production boom, and has earned something which it seldom or never had in precious historical periods: a market of its own, brought about by television demand. That market ... ❦

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