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影展的話
「為什麼要看紀錄片？」
六歲是孩童開啟小學階段之始，已六歲的MOIDF亦同樣悄悄邁入了新階段：影展同仁一起籌辦了「第一屆澳門紀錄片競賽暨展覽」等新項目。儘管MOIDF在跌跌撞撞中成長了六年，「為什麼要看紀錄片？」這創辦初時的最大疑惑，仍是每屆影展最困擾策展團隊的問題。
紀錄片常聚焦邊緣人，讓被社會疏忽的他們在螢幕上搖身一變成為主角。本屆MOIDF以「outsider」為題，精選一眾作品，讓我們換個視角，借影像貼近主流鎂光燈以外的眾生相。他們或不光鮮亮麗，但都有著屬於他們自身的，平常、微小而真實的力量。
或許，紀錄片是了解世界的角度、想像世界的方法？
爆發已兩年多的疫情仍在肆虐，各地戰火亦紛飛蔓延。瘟疫和戰爭中，生死或許不能確定，但透過電影，我們可決定誰能永遠被記得。
只要投影機的燈光亮起，銀幕上一個個真實故事就將緩緩敘說，即便疫情也阻擋不了世界各處的作品來到戲院與各位相遇，或許這就是影展的魔法。誠邀大家參與MOIDF，從電影裡繼續想像世界。
*根據字典，Outsider可翻譯成：1.局外人； 2.門外漢； 3. 外來者； 4. 不合群的人； 5. 取勝希望渺茫的人。
澳門國際紀錄片電影節
Words from MOIDF
“Why do we watch documentaries?”
Children begin primary school at the age of six, and likewise the 6th MOIDF has also unveiled a new stage with the launch of the “1st Macao Documentary Competition and Exhibition”. It has been six years since we have embarked on a path that has unfolded with a lot of ups and downs and hopefully with more gains than losses, yet each year the curatorial team is still weighed down by the very question that has bugged us since the inception of MOIDF: “Why do we watch documentaries?”
Documentaries often focus on the marginalized people and issues, rendering them in the spotlight on the screen. With the theme of “The Outsider”, the 6th MOIDF has selected numerous outstanding works that offer new perspectives for us to look at the vicissitudes of life beyond the mainstream through the lens of documentary. They might not be extravagant or glamorous, but they have definitely shown their own minute yet genuine power.
Perhaps because documentaries offer us perspectives to understand the world and avenues to imagine it?
The pandemic that has lasted for more than two years is still raging, and wars have broken out and continued in various regions. If it is up to a plague or a war to decide the matter of life and death, at least it is at our disposal who to remember forever, through films?
As soon as the projector is turned on, real-life stories unfold frame after frame on the screen, and even the pandemic cannot prevent the documentaries from all over the world from greeting the audience in the cinema. This, perhaps, is the magic of a film festival. We sincerely invite everyone to join the MOIDF and continue our imaginary journey in the world on the big screen.
*According to dictionaries, the term “outsider” can be translated into Chinese as: 1. an outsider; 2. a layman; 3. a foreigner; 4. an outcast; 5. a person with only a small chance of winning.
Macao International Documentary Film Festival
▎影展主視覺設計 Festival Main Visual Designer：Jin LIO