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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces full 2023 competition slate
The competition sections of the 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will feature over 30 world, international, and European film premieres. The competition films come via the International Competition, the Newcomers competition, and the >>Film Forward competition. All competing documentaries are in position for the 6 official awards, as well as for the 14 parallel awards. In…
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CPH:DOX announces full 2023 CPH:CONFERENCE programme
Curated in partnership with the prominent training initiative #Documentary Campus#, #CPH:DOX has announced its full 2023 CPH:CONFERENCE programme, taking place in Copenhagen from 20-24 March 2023. Under the theme FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS, this year’s CPH:CONFERENCE aims to gather the international non-fiction community to collectively envision the future of the industry, discover and unlock the…
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FIFDH Impact Days announces full 2023 programme
The 5th edition of the #FIFDH Impact Days was launched on 19 January 2023 with the public webinar Impact Filmmaking for Social Justice. Now, the Geneva-based Human Rights Festival has announced its full programme for 12 – 14 March, as well as opening up accreditations. Over its three days, Leaders in the impact field will…
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CPH:DOX announces 2023 opening film
Greenlandic-Danish film Twice Colonized will be the 2023 #CPH:DOX# (15 – 26 March) opening film. The film from Director #Lin Alluna# will also compete in the NEXT:WAVE competition. The opening night of CPH:DOX 2023 will take place on 15 March at the international concert venue in Copenhagen, DR Koncerthuset. Twice Colonized asks: how can we…
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 2023 tributes
The 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is paying a tribute to two of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers of our time – #Stavros Psillakis# and #Nikolaus Geyrhalter#. This year’s festival will feature a retrospective of their works, showcasing some of their most iconic films and offering audiences a chance to delve into their creative minds. Stavros…
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FIPADOC 2023: the complete winners
As the fifth #FIPADOC comes to an end, the full winner’s list from across competitive sections has now been announced. The announcement comes after Friday’s Industry Days Awards announcement. FIPADOC 2023 winners International Documentary: Crowds Are White (dir. Ahsen Nadeem) – USA French Documentart: Seeds of Hunger – Ukraine 1933 (dir. Guillaume Ribot) – France…
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FIPADOC closes 2023 Industry Days with award ceremony
The programme of the fifth #FIPADOC Industry Days has come to a close with its award ceremony. Held between 23 – 26 January, on-site in Biarritz’ Espace Bellevue, the Industry Days programme was opened by French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, deeming 2023 as the French «Year of Documentary». FIPADOC 2023 Industry Days winners…
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On 80th anniversary, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival pays tribute to the city’s Holocaust victims
80 years after first train bound for Auschwitz departed from #Thessaloniki, the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival organizes a tribute in honour of the city’s Jewish community exterminated during World War II. The films of the tribute «Adio querida: From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz – 80 years» will shed light on the unhealed universal #trauma and…
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FIFDH kicks of 2023 Industry Days activities with day-long seminar
On 19 January, #FIFDH kicked off its fifth Impact Days with several offerings around impact production in documentary film. Held online, the day’s activities gathered some 500 participants from over 70 countries. These participants could hear a keynote, case study, and a panel on the ethics of funding impact documentaries. Opening with a keynote address,…