Joaquim Jordà Residencies
Joaquim Jordà, Dante is not only severe, film, 1967.
Number of grants: 2
Amount: 9.000€ per grant
Call dates: July 10th - August 25th, 2025
Result announcement: From October 18 to 24, 2025 (pending day)
Organizado por: Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa
Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille and Doclisboa present the fourth edition of this annual residency program aimed at filmmakers and artists who work in the field of film essay, experimental cinema and in all those manifestations shaping contemporary’s non-fiction cinema. The joint residency between a museum and two international film festivals offers the possibility of articulating different phases between the idea and the materialization of the audiovisual work. The objective of the program is to support the conception, development and production of film projects in the field of non-fiction cinema, finance their execution and partake in the international debate on this field of artistic endeavor.
The program honors Joaquim Jordà (1935-2006), a filmmaker with an original and emblematic work in the realm of non-fiction whose career spans, among others, the three countries of the institutions that host this residency. A Spanish National Cinematography Awardee (2006), his work is part of Museo Reina Sofía’s collection; his last retrospective during his lifetime was at the FIDMarseille (2006) and one of his early films, Portogallo, paese tranquilo (1969), addresses the resistance to the dictatorship in Portugal. Jordà traced a nonconformist and committed path in the creative documentary, characterized by the use of theatrical strategies and the staging of deeply experimental narratives that this grant seeks to recover and establish as a genealogy of contemporary non-fiction cinema.
The residency proposes three stages which comprehend the research and development of the project, its realization and its launch and will take place in Madrid, Marseille and Lisbon. The beneficiaries, two per year, will be invited to participate in the FIDLab and Doclisboa. The FIDLab is an international co-production platform that takes place during the FIDMarseille at the beginning of July, where different projects are presented to gather financing and achieve distribution. The two projects awarded with this Residency will be automatically evaluated by the independent jury of the FIDLab. If they were not found among the selected projects, they will still deploy the professional opportunities offered by the platform.
For its part, Doclisboa will provide the awardees with the relevant contacts of the international guests invited to the festival, held in the second half of October in Lisbon, and as a result awardees can establish connections with international networks of filmmakers, artists and producers.
The amount of the grants is €9,000 for each of the two selected projects. Taxes apply to Spanish tax residents; foreign tax residents will be exempt by providing the corresponding documentation. Payment will be made through two wire transfers: the first one at the beginning of the grant and the last one at the end once the final dossier has been submitted. This amount includes travel and accommodation expenses in Madrid. The expenses derived from trips to Lisbon and Marseille will be paid by the convening institutions, always considering a price tag within the European area and alike.