Docskingdom

In 2025, we celebrate 25 years since the first edition of Doc’s Kingdom. For this special edition, the seminar returns to Odemira, from 14 to 19 November, with a dense programme of screenings, debates, and other activities.

Curated by Raquel Schefer and Rita Morais, the programme maps historical and contemporary collective filmmaking practices in different geopolitical zones, to contribute to a reflection on the possibility and conditions of collectivist cinema in the present.

In addition to looking at continuities and breaks that interlink key moments of collective filmmaking, the programme raises questions related to the experimentation of horizontal social relations and to the internal and external contradictions often involved in collective modes of organisation. Spatially and temporally situated, the programme also dialogues with the political history of Alentejo, departing from the process of collectivisation of land and labour that marked that territory.

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A substantial part of the program is confidential and will be made public after the conclusion of the Seminar.

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Direction

Catarina Boieiro, Stefanie Baumann

Programmers

Raquel Schefer, Rita Morais

Production Director

Silvia di Marco

Production Assistant

Bianca Dias

Technical Direction

Miguel Couto, Lucas Lima

Communication and Archive

Luiza Spotorno

Sound Coordinators

Mariana Pinho, Henrique Varanda

Graphic Design

Emma Andreetti

Hospitality Coordinator

Mila Cabral Montejano

Local Producer

Maria Neves

Intern

Guilherme Pinheiro

Translator

Amarante Abramovici

Projectionist

Celso Pinho

Dear Doc Fellows

Diogo Machado Ferreira, João Pedro Soares, Léna Lewis-King, Violena Ampudia

Dear Doc Fellowship for Programmers: Jonathan Ali, Nafis Fathollahzadeh

Dear Doc Fellowship Mais França: Elsa Brès, Miguel Armas, Paula Rodriguez Polanco

Dear Doc Fellowship ECAM/Caimán Cuadernos de Cine: David Castiella

Selection Committee for 2025 Programmer

Gaelle Boucand, Pedro Fernandes Duarte, Sílvia das Fadas, Catarina Boieiro, Stefanie Baumann

CAMP

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Mumbai in 2007 that produces film and video, electronic media, and public art, through a practice that values a non-alienated, hands-on relationship with technology. A central part of its ethos stems from a situated critique of documentary and forms of enunciation, expanding into methods that involve archives, surveillance, subjectivity, and collectivity.

Filmes apresentados

Grupo Zero

Active in Portugal between 1976 and 1982, Grupo Zero emerged out of the revolutionary Agrarian Reform in the Alentejo region. Conceived as a cooperative, its films reflect social transformations, literacy campaigns, and political change while challenging conventional documentary forms.

Filmes apresentados

Mujeres Creando

Mujeres Creando is an autonomous anarcho-feminist movement founded in 1992 in La Paz, Bolivia. It carries out creative actions in public spaces — graffiti, found in several Bolivian cities, is one of its main forms. The collective’s members are women from diverse backgrounds who share a common perspective: creativity as a tool for struggle and social participation.

Filmes apresentados

Ogawa Productions

Founded in Japan in the late 1960s by Ogawa Shinsuke, Ogawa Pro is a fundamental reference in collective documentary practice in the postwar period. Its work spans student protests, participation in the popular struggle against the construction of Narita Airport, and later, life in the village of Magino, incorporating radical forms of collaboration and of cinema as a social experience.

Filmes apresentados

Sueli and Isael Maxakali with Collaborators

Sueli and Isael Maxakali are filmmakers from the Tikmũ’ũn (Maxakali) people, who live in the Village-Forest-School in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since the 2000s, they have been making films through collective processes involving their communities, the yãmīyxop spirit-people, and various collaborators. Their cinematic productions are rooted in the struggle for territory, while also developing a distinctive aesthetic shaped by the yãmīyxop spirits, songs, rituals, and practices of caring for the land.

Filmes apresentados

Video Tracts for Palestine

“In November 2023, a group came together in response to the genocide in Gaza. More than fifty people, each more or less isolated, recorded short videos from where they were, but always in the name of the group. We called this Video Tracts for Palestine. It is an old gesture, rooted in the famous ciné-tracts of the 1960s against the war in Vietnam and in the context of May ’68. Video because the work circulates and is shared on social networks, especially on Instagram. An immediate act, born out of urgency…”

Filmes apresentados