By Aldo Padilla

The limbos in which some medium-length films are handled due to their duration usually make their situation quite complex in festivals. Most of these films are documentaries 40 to 60 minutes long, and they keep away from the circuits of short and feature films circuits, having serious difficulties to be programmed in commercial cinemas, even at art-house theaters. This is why places like the medium-length film competition in Rotterdam Film Festival are such a great opportunity for their visualization, and for some awards. Also, one can see a great creative freedom in these works and clear examples that duration is not a limiting feature in front of the ideas the pose. This freedom can be seen in the competition selection of this year.