This document summarizes the program for the 3rd annual Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival in Edinburgh from May 4-8, 2016. It highlights several featured films that will be shown, including the opening film "Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez" and closing events like a Brazilian party. New this year is a focus on short films and a section highlighting debut works from directors in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil that have been successful at international festivals. The festival aims to explore life and culture beyond limits through documentary films.

1. IBERO-AMERICAN
DOCUMENTARYFILM
FESTIVALSCOTLAND
4- 8 MAY EDINBURGH
3RD
EDITION

3. Humans have created limits to better understand society. We have divided the world with borders,
we have defined human life by different stages, we have divided time into past, present and future,
we have separated fantasy and reality, life and death, and we call those who overstep these
boundaries of ‘normality’ crazy. Yet, life has taught us that there is so much to explore among
these limits that we have created for ourselves.
This year, as part of its third festival edition and in the face of those limits, Iberodocs reveals its true
self. In the first year, we were only recently created and coming to know the world. In the second
year, we explored our sense of identity. Now in our third year, we throw etiquette aside and face
these boundaries to promote a message of freedom and rebellion.
In the spotlight for this season we have three documentary debut gems as part of our Focus on
First Works from three very different parts of the Iberian Peninsula, from directors that with these
first works have been able to establish themselves at prestigious international festivals. Joining us
will be the Andalusian Isidro Sánchez, who will come to show us his film ‘Don’t Include Me Among
You’ (No me contéis entre vosotros).
As a change, this year Iberodocs is dedicating a section of its programme to short films. Pedro Vaz
Simões has selected a repertoire of works for us that crosses the boundary between experimental
and documentary.
Our more condensed 2016 Portuguese and Brazilian strand packs 4 films featuring the most
creative, inventive and powerful documentary filmmaking produced recently. Also, don’t miss out
on our now well established Saturday night fiesta at Boteco do Brasil - free entry for the ones
attending the films screening on May 7th.
This year we have been inspired by great icons of Iberian-American culture, and for this reason the
only way we could possibly open this third edition is with Gabriel García Márquez’s documentary
‘Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez’ (Gabo, la magia de lo real).
We hope to see you at the Festival.
Iberodocs rebels!
Mar Felices
Artistic Director
www.iberodocs.org
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5. 5
8:35pm
FEATURE FILM
Gabo: The Creation of
Gabriel García Márquez
(Gabo, La magia de lo real)
Venue: Filmhouse
Before the screening there will be
a reception for ticketholders at the
Traverse Bar, starting at 6pm
Wednesday 4 May
Thursday 5 May
8:35pm
FEATURE FILM
Rio Corgo
Venue: Filmhouse
Sunday 8 May
1:00pm
SHORT DOCS: LOOKING FROM
AFAR
The Party and the Barking
Ruby
Echo Chamber
Neither God nor Santa Maria
Le Boudin
Occidente
Venue: Filmhouse
3:25pm
FEATURE FILM
The Creator of the Jungle
(Sobre la marxa)
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SHORT FILM
Travelling Light
Venue: Filmhouse
6:05PM
SHORT FILM
Nae pasaran
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FEATURE FILM
Pepe Mujica - Lessons from
the Flowerbed
(El presidente)
Venue: Filmhouse
The screening will be followed by
the festival’s Closing Party
Saturday 7 May
3:35pm
FEATURE FILM
Don’t Include Me Among
You
(No me contéis entre
vosotros)
Venue: Filmhouse
6:15pm
SHORT
To Be and To Come Back
(Ser e voltar)
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FEATURE FILM
No Cow On the Ice
(Ingen ko på isen)
Venue: Filmhouse
8:15pm
SHORT
History of Abraim
(História de Abraim)
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FEATURE FILM
On Football
(O Futebol)
Venue: Filmhouse
The screening will be followed by the
Brazilian Party at Boteco do Brasil
Friday 6 May
6:30pm
FEATURE FILM
(Be)Longing
(Volta à Terra)
Venue: University of Edinburgh,
50 George Square
8:45pm
FEATURE FILM
All of Me
(Llévate mis amores)
Venue: Filmhouse
SCHEDULE

6. 6
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel
García Márquez
(Gabo, La magia de lo real)
Justin Webster · Spain/ UK/ Colombia/
France / USA · 2015 · 90 min · Digital ·
Spanish & English with English subtitles ·
Scottish Premiere
How did a boy from a backward town on the
Caribbean coast become a writer who won the
hearts of millions, from the poorest to the most
powerful? How did he change our perception
of reality with his work? The answer lies in the
incredible story of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the
1982 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author
of the globally-celebrated and critically-acclaimed
masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.
We hope that the producer Kate Horne
will be with us for a Q&A after the film
Before the screening we invite all
ticketholders to celebrate the opening of
IberoDocs 2016 with a reception at the
Traverse Theatre Bar, starting at 6pm
Wednesday 4 May
8:35pm - Filmhouse
MAIN PROGRAMME
Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez
Embajada de Colombia en el Reino Unido
Friday 6 May
8:45pm - Filmhouse
All of Me
(Llévate mis amores)
Arturo González Villaseñor · Mexico · 2014 ·
84 min · DCP · Spanish with English subtitles
An intimate insight into the Patronas, a group of
Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make
food and toss it - still warm - to the migrants who
travel atop the freight train ‘The Beast’ as it makes
it way to the U.S. This documentary is a personal
diary that draws a border between the life they
were given, and the life they chose. A brave and
remarkable example of love and solidarity that
contrasts with the violence of one of the cruelest
stretches in the world for undocumented travellers.
The screening will be followed by a
Skype Q&A with director Arturo González
Villaseñor
All of Me
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7. 7
Nae Pasaran - SHORT
Felipe Bustos Sierra · UK · 2013 · 13 min
· Digital · Spanish & English with English
subtitles
In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers
refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines
in an act of solidarity against the violent military
coup in Chile. Four years pass then the engines
mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
Forty years later they re-unite to look back on what
was gained and what was lost.
Pepe Mujica-Lessons from the
Flowerbed
(El presidente)
Heidi Specogna · Uruguay/Germany · 2014
· 90 min · DCP · Spanish & German with
English subtitles · Scottish Premiere
Pepe Mujica has become famous for being the
‘world’s poorest president’. The former guerrilla
fighter and flower grower is currently considered
one of the most charismatic politicians of Latin
America. Old and young believe in him thanks
to his humble lifestyle and his unconventional
manners, where political protocol is concerned.
His political visions, among them his sensational
regulation of the marihuana market, have created
international interest.
The screening will be followed by the
festival’s Closing Party
Nae Pasaran Pepe Mujica-Lessons from the Flowerbed
Sunday 8 May
6:05pm - Filmhouse
MAIN PROGRAMME

8. 8
In order to capture values, feelings and atmospheres and
release them into the collective imaginary world, filmmakers
are using this old tool: cinema, with its persistent ability to
transcend time. They take risks in formats, they take risks
in content, and because we love what they are doing, we
support them by including a ‘Focus on First Works’ in our
main programme. A part of the programme dedicated to
those that have the courage to risk and are able to create
gems at their first attempts.
Jordi Morató (Catalonia - Spain) had the World Premiere
of his first feature ‘The Creator of the Jungle’ (Sobre la
marxa) at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and
audiences awarded the film giving it a place in the top 10
of the festival. After that the film was in competition in the
most prestigious international film festivals like Hot Docs,
Viennale, Vancouver or BFI London, as examples. In his
film, the portrait of “Garrell”, also known as “Tarzan from
Argelaguer”, we discover an icon, an aged man who is still
a child at heart - the modern savage - a misunderstood
visionary, admired by those who make a pilgrimage to his
forest, but who many labelled a lunatic.
Inspired by Garrell’s strength we fly to Andalusia - Spain
- to contemplate an elusive portrait of life’s end and also
a forgotten heritage of Andalusian anarchism, by Isidro
Sánchez in ‘Don’t Include Me Among You’ (No me contéis
entre vosotros). With his first documentary film, Isidro has
been nominated for the Andalusian Cinema Awards, and
has won the Best Documentary Film Award at Alcances
Documentary Film Festival (Spain). We are thrilled to
welcome the director to Edinburgh to introduce the UK
Premiere of his film at IberoDocs and participate in a Q&A.
Eloy Domínguez Serén had his first short film ‘Pettring’
premiered at our last edition in 2015 as part of the Focus
on Galicia. His second feature ‘No Cow on the Ice’ (Ingen
ko på isen) will also receive its UK premiere at the festival,
after being included in the Official Competition at Visions
du Réel and winning the Prize for the Best Screenplay at
L’Alternativa. Barcelona Independent Film Festival. This film
can be seen as a continuation of the story about emigration
started with Pettring, which is his own personal story of a
Galician immigrant in Sweden.
The portraits of rebellion these new filmmakers have
produced transcend the limitations of time. There is no
difference between presence and absence, life and death.
There are no borders. And they choose cinema with its
power to show that everything is really a part of the whole.
Mar Felices
Artistic Director
Xose-Ramón Rivas
Executive Director
Don’t Include Me Among You
(No me contéis entre vosotros)
Isidro Sánchez · Spain · 2015 · 80 min ·
DCP · Spanish with English subtitles · UK
Premiere
Manolo doesn’t know his age. He wanders around
the nursing home where he has just arrived,
ignoring his surroundings. His imagination is
enough for him to go across to the olive groves
that saw him work or raise his wheelbarrow to
collect firewood. There is no difference between
presence and escape, life and death, in this elusive
portrait of life’s end (and also a forgotten heritage
of Andalusian anarchism).
The screening will be followed by a Q&A
with director Isidro Sánchez
Saturday 7 May
3:35pm - Filmhouse
Don’t Include Me Among You
FOCUS ON FIRST WORKS

9. 9
Saturday 7 May
6:15pm - Filmhouse
To Be and To Come Back - SHORT
(Ser e voltar)
Xacio Baño · Spain · 2014 · 13 min · Digital
· Galician with English subtitles · Scottish
Premiere
A thirty-year-old film director goes back to his
grandparents’ house for the weekend. He needs
to film a video-portrait to have when they are no
longer here. It’s simple: his grandmother is in the
field and his grandfather is in the woods. He places
the camera and starts filming. That’s what cinema
is about, isn’t it?
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No Cow On the Ice
(Ingen ko på isen)
Eloy Domínguez Serén · Sweden/ Spain ·
2015 · 63 min · DCP · Swedish with English
subtitles · UK Premiere
Language and landscape as a gateway into a
new life. A young Galician filmmaker migrates
to Sweden, where he performs different part-
time jobs. His learning of a new language and
fascination for the Swedish landscape become a
driving force against the difficult life conditions. As
he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle,
he develops a new identity.
The Creator of the Jungle
(Sobre la marxa)
Jordi Morató · Spain · 2014 · 77 min · DCP
· Catalan with English subtitles · Scottish
Premiere
This is the story of a man who created a jungle
next to the highway, building with his bare hands
beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in
the forest. This is also the story of how he ended
up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them,
time after time, over decades. He is known as
“Garrell”, also as “Tarzan from Argelaguer”, and
he is not driven by any apparent purpose, except
one: going “on the go”.
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Travelling Light - SHORT
Conxi Fornieles · UK · 2015 · 18 min · Digital
· English · Scottish Premiere
Every July, a group of nudists from all over the
world travel to the Austrian Alps in order to spend
a week trekking the mountains.This is a film about
how we see ourselves when we accept who we
are, through the eyes of a fantastic bunch of
veteran nudists.
The screening will be followed by the Q&A
with Conxi Fornieles, director of Travelling
Light
The Creator of the JungleNo Cow On the Ice
Sunday 8 May
3:25pm - Filmhouse
FOCUS ON FIRST WORKS
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10. 10
Thursday 5 May
8:35pm - Filmhouse
Rio Corgo
Maya Kosa & Sérgio Da Costa · Switzerland
/ Portugal · 2015 · 95 Min · DCP · Portuguese
with English Subtitles · UK Premiere
Silva has walked many paths over the course of
his life, paths that criss-crossed Portugal. Now
his steps echo in the narrow streets of a remote
village where he has moved into an empty house.
Here he meets Ana, a young girl with whom he
builds a friendship. Ana becomes fascinated by
this man’s romantic life story and gradually slides
into his universe, populated by imaginary beings
whose main figure is his beloved Carolina. When
a strange crisis suddenly hits Silva, and he ends
up in hospital, a dozen imaginary women emerge
from his fantasy world. Can they save him?
Rio Corgo
Connection and isolation. These two opposites inhabit
the landscape of the Portuguese and Brazilian films we’ve
curated for you in the Lusophone Eye programme this year.
A connection such as the one you are expected to feel
towards your father, even if you haven’t seen him in 20
years, as explored by Brazilian director Sérgio Oksman
in his feature ‘On Football’ (O Futebol). Or the sense of
isolation created by an existence in a remote village in the
North of Portugal, as portrayed by Portuguese director João
Pedro Plácido in ‘(Be)Longing’ (Volta à Terra).
The same thread continues with the DocLisboa-awarded
and Berlinale-screened ‘Rio Corgo’, where double act
Maya Kosa and Sérgio da Costa introduce us to Silva, an
old mysterious man living in a unnamed land in Northern
Portugal. Weaving through the miraculous filter of fantasy,
the film not only deals with solitude and isolation, but also
solidarity and escape.
And finally, Otavio Cury’s short ‘History of Abraim’ (História
de Abraim) on an indigenous Brazilian man’s tale, merges
the two concepts. In one masterful single shot Cury
introduces us to a character very much connected to his
community, but at the same time isolated from Brazilian
society. And he leaves the moral judgement of this man,
who was once traded for a cow, to the spectator.
As you can tell, there is quite a bit in the way of creative,
inventive and powerful documentary filmmaking packed
into our 4-film strand at Iberodocs 2016. So, with a smaller
selection of films dotting around the wonderful gems the
main programme is featuring this year - it would be easy
to blink and miss the Lusophone Eye offering. Our advice?
Whatever you do - don’t blink!
Isabel Moura Mendes & Alice Baleine
Portuguese & Brazilian Programme
LUSOPHONE EYE

11. 11
Friday 6 May
6.30pm - Edinburgh Uni. 50 George Square
History of Abraim - SHORT
(História de Abraim)
Otavio Cury · Brazil · 2015 · 12min · Digital
· Portuguese with English subtitles · UK
Premiere
Filmmaker Otavio Cury meets 75 year-old Abraim
Joaquim Guariba. An unexpected exchange starts.
The conversation unfolds, revealing the memories
of a man who was once exchanged for a cow
when he was a child.
On Football
(O Futebol)
Sérgio Oksman · Spain / Brazil 2015 · 70min
· Digital · Portuguese with English subtitles ·
UK Premiere
Sérgio and his father, Simão, haven’t seen each
other for over 20 years. On the eve of the 2014
World Cup, Sergio returns to his hometown, São
Paulo, hoping to watch the games with Simão, as
they used to when he was a kid.
The screening will be followed by a Brazilian
party at Boteco do Brasil (47 Lothian Street,
Edinburgh EH1 1HB. More info on the festival’s
website).
(Be)Longing
(Volta à Terra)
João Pedro Plácido · Portugal · 2014 · 78min
· DCP · Portuguese with English Subtitles ·
Scottish Premiere
The story of an endangered community: farmers
whopracticesubsistencefarminginamountainous
village of northern Portugal, deserted because of
emigration. Between the evocation of the past and
their uncertain future, we follow the 49 inhabitants
through four seasons, from the wintry fallow until
the return of the prodigal sons in August. Among
the inhabitants is António – a former emigrant
who fulfilled his dream of returning home – who
prepares the village festivities for the coming
summer, and Daniel, a young shepherd who
dreams of love at dusk.
On Football(Be)Longing
LUSOPHONE EYE
Saturday 7 May
8:15pm - Filmhouse
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12. 12
The Party and the Barking
(A Festa e os Cães)
Leonardo Mouramateus · Brazil · 2015 ·
25min · Digital · Portuguese with English
subtitles · UK Premiere
At night, they would gather in a flock, as if they
were a unit that had deserted from the same place
to this piece of neighbourhood, on the outskirts of
Fortaleza.
The Party and the Barking
With ‘Looking from Afar’, Iberodocs is introducing, for
the first time, a shorts-only curated programme. Here
experimentation is key and the mixing or juxtaposing of
elements within the same film reflects on the complex
intersections of contemporary experience while looking
back in time, attempting to make sense of it.
Language and formats; materials and structures; nations
and their conflicting desires; remote places and long
gone times. The filmmakers presented in this programme
cohesively mix diverse or opposing elements, developing
intuitive and clever structures. They create portraits of their
worlds, their homes or themselves that are at times poetic
and delicate and at others dark and harsh.
In these six films, the perception of the self and its
surroundings seems to expand or sharpen when seen from
a distance through space, time, matter or the intangible.
While Mouramateus is facing the end of his Fortaleza
adolescence from his new Lisbon home in ‘The Party and
the Barking’, in the ghostly ‘Echo Chamber’, Moncayo,
based in France, goes back to his native Colombia to roll
along its obsolete railways, across the wild and the ruins.
If in ‘Ruby’, Scherer, Loureiro and Soster create a double
of Scherer, who moves to his old family home and country,
to live amongst bromelias and honour dead foxes laying
flowers in their eyes, in ‘Le Boudin’, Lamas also doubles
up her “subject” as a way to cope with the savagery of
voice and memory. Finally, in ‘Neither God nor Santa Maria’,
Delgado and Girón hover over the eerie landscape of
Lanzarote, where other-worldly male voices, set against old
women’s faces, tell stories of witches while, in ‘Occidente’,
Vaz ascends even higher, reaching a cosmos of signs
through post-colonial dietetics and quirky china sets,
landing us on the pure material and the grand abstract.
In a journey starting with the furiously mundane and its
sublimation, passing through the darkness of death, the
hypnotic transcendent and finally the infinite, we will take
you far and wide.
Pedro Vaz Simões
Shorts Programme Curator
SHORT DOCS: LOOKING FROM AFAR
Sunday 8 May
1:00pm - Filmhouse
105min

13. 13
SHORT DOCS: LOOKING FROM AFAR
Ruby
Luciano Scherer, Jorge Loureiro and
Guilherme Soster · Brazil/Uruguay · 2015
· 17min · Digital · Spanish with English
subtitles · UK Premiere
Ruby is an outsider artist living alone in a house
close to the beach.
Ruby
Le Boudin
Salomé Lamas · Portugal/Germany · 2014 ·
16min · Digital · Portuguese & German with
English subtitles · UK Premiere
“None of these, to whom I ask for me, has seen
me”. Le Boudin documents the encounter of the
young Elias Geißler with the testimony of Nuno
Fialho, who at the age of 16 found himself in the
French Foreign Legion: “I didn’t enlist. Someone
enlisted me”.
Le Boudin
Sunday 8 May
1:00pm - Filmhouse
105min

14. 14
Neither God nor Santa Maria
(Sin Dios ni Santa María)
Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón ·
Spain · 2015 · 12min · Digital · Spanish with
English subtitles · Scottish Premiere
Since airplanes did not exist, people moved around
using prayers, they went from one land to another
and returned early, before dawn. In old audio
recordings, the voices of pastors speak of the
mythical existence of to materialize as night falls.
Night is the time when travel is possible, witches
and their travels. In the daily life of a woman the
magic of her tales begin.
Neither God nor Santa Maria
Occidente
Occidente
Ana Vaz . France/Portugal · 2014 · 15min ·
Digital · No dialogue · Scottish Premiere
A film-poem of an ecology of signs that speaks
of a colonial history repeating itself. Subalterns
become masters, antiques become reproducible
dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency,
exploration becomes extreme-sport-tourism,
monuments become geo-data.
SHORT DOCS: LOOKING FROM AFAR
Echo Chamber
Guillermo Moncayo · France/Colombia ·
2014 · 19min · Digital · Spanish with English
subtitles
Along ruined railroads in a tropical country, a
radio broadcasts a climatological alert on a loop:
a natural disaster is imminent.
Echo Chamber
Sunday 8 May
1:00pm - Filmhouse
105min

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IBERODOCS TEAM
Mar Felices - Artistic Director
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Isabel Moura Mendes - Portuguese & Brazilian Programme Curator
Pedro Vaz Simões - Shorts Programme Curator & Content Creator
Kate Deans - Festival Assistant Manager
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