In the first press conference of the year, the organizers revealed the two retrospectives as part of the 2013 programme - a retrospective of French director Alain Cavalier and Moving Stills- Photography, Photographers and Documentary Film, curated by Federico Rossin.

In the current context Alain Cavalier's work is particularly important by its consistency and it offers us a critical proposal regarding the existing film production policies and its economic state. The second retrospective - Moving Stills - focuses on specific films that explore the multiple relationships between photography and documentary film, and includes films by Ingmar Bergman, Robert Cahen, Philip Hoffman, Barbara Meter, Ken Jacobs, Danny Lion and Robert Frank.

Other programme highlights include a selection of films about the end of the Unidad Popular party in Chile, 40 years later: "1973 - 2013. Coup d'État in Chile: 40 years after". One of the upcoming films is "La Spirale" (1976), directed by Jacqueline Meppiel, Armand Mattelart, Valérie Mayoux, in collaboration with Chris Marker.

Doclisboa's directors also revealed the 2013 programme will have a new section - Doc Alliance will screen some of the films chosen to represent the other six documentary European festivals that are members of this alliance. In January, Doclisboa became the seventh member of Doc Alliance, which confirms its strategic importance in the European scope of the most prestigious documentary film festivals.

Since 2012 the festival has a new board of directors (Cinta Pelejà, Cíntia Gil and Susana de Sousa Dias), which is fully committed to emphasizeDoclisboa'13 as a key site to think of documentary film, of intervention and promotion of the Portuguese cinema abroad.

Doclisboa 2013 edition full lineup is to be announced in October.

The Doc Alliance Award was given by a jury composed of seven film critics, chosen by the partners of Doc Alliance: Antoine Duplan (Le Temps, Switzerland), Antoine Thirion (Independencia, France), Francisco Ferreira (Expresso, Portugal), Dorte Hygum Soerensen (Politiken, Denmark), Matthias Dell (Freitag, Germany), Tomasz Raczek (Film Magazine, Poland) and Pavel Sladký (Czech Radio, Czech Republic).

Running for the Doc Alliance Selection Award were also Demande à ton Ombre by Lamine Ammar Khodja, Searching for Bill by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, The Fortress by Lukas Kokes and Klara Tasovska, Les Chebabs de Yarmouk by Axel Salvatori-Sinz, The Captain and his Pirate by Andy Wolff and Fuck for Forest by Michael Marczak.

In his acceptance speech, André Gil Mata referred to the importance of Doc Alliance for the dissemination of cinematographic documentary: "For a long time I was not at all interested in documentary, for at least in my country the dissemination of documentary was very distant from cinema itself, very narrowed in a standard approach dictated by television, that I find very poor. I hope Doc Alliance can help on changing this situation, to create means for documentary to be a truly free cinematographic practice."

Further information about the Doc Alliance Selection 2013 here.

More info: http://www.doclisboa.org/2013/en/doclisboa/inscricoes/