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Danilo Santos de Miranda - Director of Sesc (São Paulo Department) APPRECIATING QUALITY CINEMA Is it possible to record life like it is? What are the subjective elements of a fact that come out in the narrative that is always structured? An awareness of the human condition, in terms of the fragile understanding of the world, gives individuals the possibility of raising doubts (the moving force of curiosity) regarding absolute certainties that have been established by official voices and versions of the facts of life and of the world. So, we could ask: is it all true? Whatever the answers to this question, they remain subjective and polemical in nature. However, we could say that everything can be narrated and, in that sense, non-fictional cinema, and its main agent, the documentary filmmaker, steps forward as an investigator who offers the public previously unknown impressions, forgotten or censured details, images that speak for themselves and want to be read with care. The variety of subjects and objects in focus in this 6th International Documentary Film Festival is a case in point. Around 200 Brazilian productions were entered, showing how fruitful Brazilian documentary cinema has been. Furthermore, there is the special highlight of the retrospectives of the works of Frederick Wiseman and Geraldo Sarno. For SESC São Paulo, an institution for which cultural dissemination is a tool and an instrument for democratic knowledge, the 6th International Documentary Film Festival is an unequalled opportunity to reveal new talent, to debate, and to appreciate quality cinema that deserves being seen by the larger public. DANILO SANTOS DE MIRANDA Director of Sesc (São Paulo Department)