Elsewhere, eight sections include those aimed at children and teenagers. Of the others, ‘Panorama’ deals with recent quality material, including quirky Finnish film Freetime Machos, following the sporting and domestic highs and lows of a Finnish rugby team, while Scottish film The Edge of Dreaming pits hard-edge northern realism against spiritualism. ‘Catalan Day’ is a nod to local productions, such as Ventura Durall’s devastating El Perdón (The Forgiveness), which tells the story of paranoid schizophrenic Andrés Rabadán, who was sectioned in a secure psychiatric unit after killing his father with a crossbow. The festival bows out with El Último Aplauso (The Last Applause), an ode to veteran singers of tango directed by German Kral.
DocsBarcelona: February 2nd to 7th, 2010; Various venues; www.docsbarcelona.com
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