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CPH:LAB 2026/2027 Reveals Nine Immersive Projects
The nine immersive documentary projects entering the 2026/2027 edition of CPH:DOX' CPH:LAB programme, with prototypes due at the festival next March.
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innsbruck nature film festival Marks 25 Years With 13 Awards
Marking its 25th anniversary from 7 to 11 October, the innsbruck nature film festival opens with Bee Wild and presents 13 awards worth more than €29,000.
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World Congress of Science and Factual Producers Brings Creator-Led Media to Tallinn
WCSFP 2026, the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, will put digital media at the heart of its programme when it convenes in Tallinn, Estonia from 9 to 12 November. Speakers include Goalhanger co-founder Tony Pastor and Electrify co-founder Ian Shepherd, alongside Complexly CEO Julie Walsh Smith. Their organisations together generate around 200 million…
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Baltic Sea Docs marks 30th edition with Riga award ceremony
Baltic Sea Docs marked its 30th anniversary in Riga with eight partner awards for documentary projects from across Europe and the Caucasus.
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Ji.hlava New Visions Forum Sets 29-Project Line-up for Jubilee Edition
Twenty-nine documentary projects from 15 countries have been selected for the 2026 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, running October 28 to 30 as part of the festival's 30th anniversary edition.
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DOK Leipzig retrospective traces the buried archive of Latin America’s Third Cinema
A new retrospective at DOK Leipzig is doing something the festival circuit rarely attempts. Rather than simply screening the canon of 1960s and 70s Latin American political cinema, «Cinema and Struggle: Latin America Between East and West» turns its attention to the physical films themselves and to the improbable, divided-city infrastructure that kept them alive.…
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MIA 2026 names first Guests as Rome reshapes its venues
MIA, the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo promoted by ANICA (chaired by Alessandro Usai) and APA (chaired by Chiara Sbarigia) under the direction of Gaia Tridente, has announced its first international guests for the 2026 edition, alongside a new format that reshapes the market’s Rome venues into a dedicated audiovisual district. Confirmed for MIA’s fireside chats are…
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dok.incubator names eight documentary projects for 2026 workshop
The Visegrad region’s leading rough-cut training programme has revealed its selection for 2026. dok.incubator has chosen eight documentary projects to enter the workshop, where filmmaking teams spend five months refining their films’ cut and dramaturgy alongside international editors, producers and sales agents ahead of premieres planned for 2027. This year’s lineup gravitates toward artists whose…
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Ora et Labora takes Ji.hlava’s Docu Talent Award in Sarajevo
The Docu Talent Award, top prize at Ji.hlava’s Docu Talents from the East showcase, has gone to Ora et Labora (Pray and Work), a Luxembourg-Slovak co-production directed by Dzhovani Gospodinov and produced by Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu. The seven finalists were revealed Sunday night in Sarajevo as part of CineLink Industry Days, with projects…
