03 · 07 · 16

Kings of Nowhere to Screen in London

Betzabé García’s Kings of Nowhere, winner of the Best Feature Documentary prize at the 13th FICM, has been selected at the first edition of Frames of Representation - a festival dedicated to screening and analyzing new forms of documentary cinema, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Congratulations to the whole team for their continued success!

Kings of Nowhere has enjoyed an excellent critical reception: it was included among the best films of 2015 according to Sight & Sound, and has played at festivals all over the world. As well as the award for Best Feature Documentary at FICM, the film has received many other prizes, including the Audience Award at South by Southwest (SXSW); the Grand Jury Prize at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; the Golden Eye for Best International Documentary at the Zurich Film Festival; the International Jury Prize at the This Human World Festival; and the Cinema Tropical Prize for Best Documentary Director, among others. The documentary also received the Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Ambulante post-production grant, and support from FONCA’s Cultural Projects and Joint Ventures program. Kings of Nowhere was also part of the DOC Fortnight program at MoMA this year.

The first edition of Frames of Representation focuses on the idea of “new periphery”, which is to say in the power of cinema to bring marginalized communities to the center of the conversation. The festival’s curators Luke W. Moody and Nico Marzano describe the festival as "uniquely interdisciplinary in nature, the festival recognises the ongoing evolution of documentary as an art form, highlighting new cinematic hybrids of fiction and documentary that open up multiple frames of reality."

Frams of Representation 2016 is made up of eight feature documentaries and three masterclasses. As well as Kings of Nowhere, the festival will screen another Mexican film: Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez’ Las letras. According to the festival’s programmers, these films are “brooding contemporary examples of a Mexican tradition of socially engaged cinema, layering the poetic with the political to address the corruption and crossfire of ongoing power struggles of Chiapas [Las letras] and North western Mexico [Kings of Nowhere]."

The first edition of Frames of Representation will take place from the 20th – 27th April, 2016, at the ICA in London. For more information click here.