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Ethnocineca 2025 announces programme under the theme of “Hauntings”
The 19th edition of #ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna will take place from May 8 to 14, 2025, presenting a rich and politically charged program under the thematic focus HAUNTINGS. Held at Vienna’s Votiv Kino and Kino De France, the festival will feature 53 documentaries from 33 countries, encompassing two world premieres, one…
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«Let’s Talk Climate!» – African Encounters 2025 at DOK.fest München
Since 2013, #DOK.fest München# has maintained a thematic commitment to the African continent. Through its African Encounters strand, the festival offers a platform in Germany for African documentary filmmakers and intercontinental dialogue. In 2025, this initiative turns its focus to #climate justice, addressing the entangled legacies of ##colonialism and environmental crisis under the motto Let’s…
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Krakow Film Festival unveils 2025 international documentary competition lineup
Ecological catastrophe, political intrigue, and intimate reckonings with memory and identity take centre stage in the 65th Krakow Film Festival’s International Documentary Competition. The 13-film programme, spanning continents and styles, captures a world in turmoil, where truth is elusive, systems are crumbling, and solace is often found in unexpected places. The films in the competition…
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Photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed in Gaza, days before Cannes premiere of film featuring her work
Fatima Hassouna, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist who has chronicled the claustrophobic dignity of life in the #Gaza Strip, was killed Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike that obliterated her family home in #Gaza City#. Nine members of her family died alongside her. The strike came just weeks before her international debut at the Cannes Film Festival,…
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19th ethnocineca to open with intimate portrait of war, memory, and displacement
The 19th edition of #ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna will open on 8 May 2025, with the Austrian premiere of Home Game by #Lidija Zelovic#. The festival, which runs through May 14 at Vienna’s Votiv Kino and Kino De France, brings a thematic focus on «Hauntings»—a reflection on how history lingers in personal…
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New film competition champions ancient water technologies
A new international film prize is turning to the past for answers to one of the 21st century’s most urgent crises. The Water Film Prize 2025, announced this week by Let’s Talk About Water (LTAW) and UNESCO’s Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-NET), is calling on filmmakers to spotlight ancient hydro technologies as potential solutions…
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dok.incubator launches 2025 regional programme with 8 documentaries
dok.incubator has announced the selection of eight documentary projects for its 2025 regional programme, spotlighting voices from #Czechia, #Slovakia, #Poland, #and Hungary. These films, currently in development, span a spectrum of pressing global and personal themes—from climate adaptation and animal rights to journalistic freedom, beauty standards, and intimate family stories. Each of the selected projects…
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Smokehouses and soundscapes at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival will open on 25 May 2025 with the world premiere of The Queen and the Smokehouse, a debut feature by Polish director Iga Lis. Lis’s film tells the story of Miecia, the formidable matriarch of a smokehouse in the coastal town of Łeba. For decades, her fish delicacies have drawn…
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goEast 2025 unveils main competition line-up and short film programme «Revenge of the Babushka»
Wiesbaden’s goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film is set to mark its 25th edition from 23 to 29 April 2025, with a programme of fiction and documentary films from across the region. The Main Competition will present 14 feature-length films that reflect the political, cultural, and emotional landscapes of Central and Eastern…