Only if you like meeting people and watching documentaries.
The festival is a brilliant excuse to meet people, so we can all mingle, the people interested in other people's lives. Well, I'm not talking about gossiping, but about an attempt to understand what it means to be a human.
Usually when I send an invite to a meet-up, whether it is Kristen's idea to invite you on a family-friendly walk where kids and grown-ups are equally tired after....

or Fate's idea to take you to try food in places she'd recommend only to her best friends, or, finally, my idea to show you where streams flow freely, trees stand proud, and people are scarce, it's all about walking somewhere.

This reminds me when I got a dog for the first time and I was complaining to my friend who never had one : "...now I walk somewhere, it feels like I do it all the time...I'm tired."
But this is an invite to a standing meet-up.
Those of you who follow what's going on in Coimbra know about the international film festival focused on documentaries DOC. Coimbra that kicks off next week.
But you may not know few a things.
- It's only a third edition, but they received 727 submissions from which they had chosen 60 films(that's a lot of movies to watch for the organisers).
- The films are about "how another person of my age lives, say, in Kyrgyzstan, and where they go to school, and what they eat, and how they suffer." We can all learn from the realities of others and put our problems into a perspective.
- The co-founder of the festival, who was born in a small German colony in southern Brazil, told me that there is a misconception about the Brazilians: people think they are like a "latino americano", that they are always happy, very expressive. But not on the south. I wrote an article about him and the festival.
Furthermore, I think the festival is a brilliant excuse to meet people, so we can all mingle, the people interested in other people's lives. Well, I'm not talking about gossiping, but about an attempt to understand what it means to be a human.