- Fipadoc, the most important international documentary film event in France for professionals and the general public, is back from January 24th to February 1st, 2025
For this 7th edition, almost 180 documentaries will be screened in Biarritz and the surrounding towns. For 8 days, Fipadoc will be taking over the most emblematic venues in Biarritz and the surrounding area, with over 230 screenings, meetings with the film teams, masterclasses, debates and conferences.
The films selected aim to provide a better understanding of the world around us, from the powerful to the personal.
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“Documentaries become an equalizer when they give voice to the forgotten, the silenced, the rebels. When they go against prevailing forms of representation, as an art form that has unfailingly built itself to oppose the supremacy of fiction. When they open our screens and our eyes to other, sometimes invisible, realities. Documentaries are the genre that cannot cheat in portraying the realities of the world, and furthermore, they must not.”
Anne Georget and Christine Camdessus, President and Deputy Director of Fipadoc
- A major film screening every night at the Gare du Midi
The Fipadoc will open its doors on Friday, January 24th with Joana Mallwitz – Momentum, a Günter Atteln’s film about the rise of German conductor Joana Mallwitz, with the presence of both the director and Joana Mallwitz herself. The Malandain Ballet Biarritz will also be opening the festival with an extract from Mozart à 2 (7′). And every evening, a major film will be screened at the Gare du Midi, including two Arte and France Télévisions previews:
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- Arte preview / Tuesday 28 January at 7.30pm / Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles
- France Télévisions preview / Wednesday 29 January at 7.30pm / I Am Martin Parr / In the presence of photographer Martin Parr
- Dance at the heart of Fipadoc
Every year, Fipadoc ensures that audiences can enjoy dance films. This year, Déliés and Inclassable tell the story of the reality that runs through the lives of dance companies, and are in the running for the Music Documentary Grand Prize. And for the first time, two choreographies will open and close the festival, with the Malandain Ballet Biarritz and the Skorpeidon company.
- A focus on the ocean
France will be hosting the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Oceans in June 2025. This is an opportunity to take a look at the ocean in all its shades, with a conference and a selection of films. Fipadoc is organising a conference entitled ‘From the ocean to the plate’ on Thursday 30 January at 2.30pm at Le Connecteur.
