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5 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Enric Miralles was the visionary Barcelona-born architect whose commissions include the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and the Igualada Cemetery, famous for the way it seems to merge into the landscape. He died of a brain tumour age only 45 in the summer of 2000. Now, he is the subject of Miralles, the poetic and enigmatic new feature documentary from Italian director Maria Mauti, screening in Official Competition at Docs Barcelona.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

In her emotional pitch, delivered via video due to illness back home in Romania, Ana Vîjdea explained her new and  very personal project Nava Mama, for which returns to the village where she grew up in order to break the cycle of violence that she experienced throughout her childhood. “I had left the village because of the violence in my family and in the homes of mostly everyone I knew. It was a violence that seemed so pervasive that my grandmother used to cry herself to sleep.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

German production and sales maestro Heino Deckert was handed the 2025 Docs d’Honor Award during the opening ceremony of the 28th Docs Barcelona. The festival is screening two of his films, the Oscar-nominated Rabbit à la Berlin by Polish Bartosz Konopka, and Heimat is a Space in Time, the final film of Thomas Heise, who passed away in 2024.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

It took seven years for Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni to complete their remarkable new documentary, Cutting Through Rocks, which world premiered in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition and which is now selected for DocsBarcelona Competition. During that period, they chronicled huge ebbs and flows in the life of their main protagonist, Sara Shahverdi, the motorcycling ex-midwife from a remote Iranian village who took the leap into local politics.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

A New Yorker with an astonishing voice and the most vagabond of creative sensibilities, 82-year old Meredith Monk is the genius that few people have ever heard of. “You’re not alone,” director Billy Shebar says of the subject of Monk in Pieces, sold by Cinephil and selected for  Visions Competition at DocsBarcelona. “I mean, it’s a very common response from people who know a lot about music.