Festival MiradasDoc 2012

MiradasDoc  is an International Documentary Film Festival that preferentially shows documentary films with a social subject that are produced and filmed in developing countries, as well as those that delve into issues such as North-South relations or emergent social processes etc.

The festival is structured around three main themes. Festival, market and education, and each of these themes at the same time includes a series of events relating to reality cinema.

Casa Áfricas has sponsored the MiradasDoc Festival since 2007 collaborating with the Town Council of Guía de Isora through the Department of Culture, which makes this essential space possible so that we can get to know the documentary genre that is carried out in Southern or developing countries. Due to this, MiradasDoc can boast that it is an European event with unique features.

One of Casa África's main interests is to guarantee the presence of documentaries, documentary makers and representatives of African culture at the event, which this year is made up by:

• Four African films in the official competition (two feature films and two short films from the Congo and Ethiopia) as well as the film from Ethiopia and Belgium "Little Heaven", which shall be the protagonist of EnseñanDoc, an activity that is carried out in institutes and colleges.

• Casa África also collaborates with the festival to have the attendance of the South African producer Khalo Matabane, who has the presentation of two of his documentaries amongst his activities, Conversations on a Sunday afternoon (2005) and Story of a beautiful country (2004) together with a morning talk within the criticism workshop with film students.