History time

The production of informative documentaries in Spain experienced a singular boom since the end of the last century and has continued with a notable presence in festivals and as part of the programming of television stations and platforms. The capacity of the audiovisual narrative of the documentary to address current affairs or the concerns of society has found in this format a real discovery to connect with the public interested in being informed.

Within this production profile, the concern for memory has had a primordial place in its development, so that several documentaries have left their usual niche in the small screen or the festival circuit to become a reference to rethink questions about our recent past. This is undoubtedly a trend that can be seen in other countries, as shown by two of the documentaries presented in this series, made in Argentina and Peru, which address other ways of approaching society's past.

This program marks the beginning of a collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), the oldest film festival in Spain and a great supporter of these contents through the Tiempo de Historia (Time of History) section, which gives its name to our series. For this purpose, the festival has selected four titles that more than fulfill the proposal of approaching the past to think about it in a different way.