Docville

The International Documentary Film Festival Docville is an annual documentary film festival set in Leuven, Belgium.

Docville was founded in 2005 as a thematical series within the arthouse movie theatre Cinema ZED. In the next edition the festival added competitive sections and became independent of the movie theatre. Docville takes place in the beginning of May of each year in different locations within the city of Leuven. The festival centre is located within the Arts Center STUK. It is the only annual, competitive documentary-only film festival in Belgium. Edition 2017 will take place between March 22–30.

Programming

The festival has three main competitions: Jury award for best Belgian documentary, Jury award for best international documentary and Jury award for best documentary within the ConScience competition. Next to these recurring section, the festival has each year a selection of non-competitive programming, which vary each year.

The festival focusses on auteur driven documentaries: documentaries that reflect the director's personal creative vision with regards to cinematography, content, structure, productional context, ...

Awards

1st edition Docville (September 28 - October 3, 2005)

No awards

2nd edition Docville (September 27 - October 3, 2006)

• Best Belgian documentary: Rwanda, Les Collines Parlent (director: Bernard Bellefroid)
• Best international documentary: Last Supper (Sweden, directors Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström)

3rd edition Docville (May 30 - June 5, 2007)

• Best Belgian documentary: Het Rijksadministratief Centrum (director: Yves Cantraine)
• Best international documentary: The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (Denemarken, regie: Pernille Rose Grønkjær)

4th edition Docville (May 10–17, 2008)

• Best Belgian documentary: Le Flic, La Juge et L'assassin (director: Yves Hinant)
• Best international documentary: Stranded (France, director: Gonzalo Arijon)

5th edition Docville (May 2–9, 2009)

• Best Belgian documentary: Zondag Gaat Het Gebeuren (director: Joeri Vlekken)
• Best international documentary: Dear Zachary (USA, director: Kurt Kuenne)

6th edition Docville (May 1–8, 2010)

• Best Belgian documentary: Vlasman (director: Jan Lapeire)
• Best international documentary: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? (Spain, directors: Norberto López Amado, Carlos Carcas)

7th edition Docville (April 29 - May 7, 2011)

• Best Belgian documentary: L'Ile Déserte (director: Steve Thielemans)
• Best international documentary: Marwencol (USA, director: Jeff Malmberg)
• ConScience award: Rainmakers (The Netherlands, director: Floris-Jan Van Luyn)

8th edition Docville (April 27 - May 5, 2012)

• Best Belgian documentary: Empire of Dust (director: Bram Van Paesschen)
• Best international documentary: Il Castello (Italy, director: Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti)
• ConScience award: The Ambassador (Denmark, director: Mads Brügger)

9th edition Docville (May 3–11, 2013)

• Best Belgian documentary: Behind the Redwood Curtain (director: Liesbeth De Ceulaer)
• Best international documentary: The Expedition to the End of the World (Denmark, director: Daniel Dencik)
• ConScience award: A River Changes Course (USA, Cambodja, director: Kalyanee Mam)

10th edition Docville (May 2–10, 2014)

• Best Belgian documentary: What about Eric (director: Lennart Stuyck and Ruben Vermeersch)
• Best international documentary: Happiness (France, Finland, director: Thomas Balmès)
• ConScience award: Virunga (UK, director: Orlando Von Einsiedel)

11th edition Docville (May 1–9, 2015)

• Best Belgian documentary: Twilight of a life (director: Sylvain Biegeleisen)
• Best international documentary:Garnet's Gold (UK, director: Ed Perkins)
• ConScience Award: Democrats (Denmark, director: Camilla Nielsson)
• Best Flemish TV documentary: De Werkende Mens (Director: Lode Desmet )
• Knack Audience Award:The Man Who Saved The World (Denmark, director: Peter Anthony)

12th edition Docville (April 29 May 7, 2016)

• Best Belgian documentary: Reach for the Sky (Director: Steven Dhoedt)
• Best international documentary: Life, Animated (USA, director: Roger Ross Williams)
• ConScience Award: This Changes Everything (Canada, director: Avi Lewis)
• Best Flemish TV documentary: Spul (Director: Jan Antonissen en Guillaume Graux)
• Knack Audience Award:Life, Animated (USA, director: Roger Ross Williams)

Special Guests/activities

• In 2012 British documentary film maker Louis Theroux held a masterclass at the festival^[1]
• In 2014 Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal introduced her newest documentary, Watermark. As well as Freda Kelly, former secretary of The Beatles and the subject of Good Ol' Freda. Austrian documentary film maker Erwin Wagenhofer will be presenting his newest film, Alphabet as well as giving a masterclass during the festival.^[2]
• In 2016 British documentary film maker Louis Theroux presented his first feature length documentary My Scientology Movie in European premiere.

External links

• Official website

References