The International Documentary Competition gathers, in the current edition, a total of 18 films from 12 different countries – the largest number of films and countries in competition in the history of a category that, more than ever, is seen as illustrative of the current panorama of documentary related to dance.

Over six sessions, in a total of more than eight hours, the competition appears to us anchored in two apparently distinct valences that intertwine and complement each other: portraits, personal or collective, of creative processes - testimonies of a range of different thoughts about art - and objects largely motivated by thematic concerns, current or timeless, in the context of performing arts: emigration, nature, motherhood, aging or disability, among others.

Increasingly, a space where the very concept of documentary appears to us reframed in the light of films that questions or embraces it, the International Documentary Competition arises from a curatorial look based on both a renewed appreciation for the bodily and soulful strength of dance as a kinetic engine of cinematographic construction, how much of the art/practice of cinema as a reconfiguring agent of dance.