Iberodocs returns to Filmhouse

Documentary festival back for third edition.

by Amber Wilkinson

Gabo: The Creation Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez will open Iberodocs 2016.
Gabo: The Creation Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez will open Iberodocs 2016.

The Iberodocs documentary festival returns to Edinburgh Filmhouse this week, celebrating the culture and history of Ibero-American films.

Running from May 4-8 and curated by artistic director Mar Felices Gonzalez and Isabel Moura Mendes, the festival also features a section entitled Lusophone Eye, focusing on Brazilian and Portugese film, which this year has a focus on connection and isolation.

The festival begins with Gabo: The Creation Of Gabriel García Márquez, preceded by a reception for ticket holders - one of several events that will run through the festival.

The full line-up is below:

For further details about the programme, visit the official site.

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Movies out this week include:

A.I. Highlander Kokuho Romería Top Gun Top Gun: Maverick
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The accidental revolutionary Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue discuss artistic evolution and Blaise

Embracing complexity Nigel Santos on the messiness of real life romance, and Open Endings

Alone together Park Joon-ho on loneliness, North Korean experience, gay life and 3670

The destroyer of worlds Daniel Everitt-Lock on experiences of atomic testing and Our Planet, The People, My Blood

Taking the temperature Jacqueline Zünd on exploring the climate crisis through companion films Heat and Don't Let The Sun

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