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IDFA announces 2022 opening film, competition slate, and complete programme
The 35th #IDFA has announced its final programming selections and opening film for the festival taking place in Amsterdam from November 9-20. The festival opens with the world premiere of All You See (dir. Niki Padidar). Contemplating questions of what it means to belong, who gets excluded, and how outsider status is continually reaffirmed, Padidar’s…
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Human Rights-focused United Nations Association Film Festival sets to kick off 25th edition
The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is set to kick off on 20 October and run through 30 October October 20-30, 2022 in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and at Stanford University. This year’s UNAFF theme «REFLECTIONS» continues UNAFF’s enduring devotion to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasizing…
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Porto/Post/Doc announces first programme details for 2022 edition
Porto/Post Doc, held between 16 – 26 November, has announced the first aspects of its 2022 programme. American archivist and filmmaker #Sierra Pettengil# will be honoured with a retrospective on the dangers of a history that repeats itself. Her alert cinema style holds ability to put the past in dialogue with the present in a…
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European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 «Arts of Survival» Documentaries opens international film competition
European Capital of Culture (2024) #Tartu 2024 Arts of Survival Documentaries opens an international film competition. Tartu 2024 Arts of Survival Documentaries invites filmmakers from all over the world to participate in a creative film contest to look for ideas for short films capturing Southern #Estonia on the topic of «Arts of Survival», the artistic…
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DAFilms launches child-friendly portal, DAFilms Junior, free with all subscriptions
From 10 October, DAFilms.com has announced the launch of DAFilms Junior to the VOD streaming family. DAFilms Junior is meant to be a safe and intuitive environment for children and teenagers where special Junior curators regularly handpick a selection of the very best films for kids (3 to 12 and above), and put them all…
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Doclisboa 2022: the complete winners
The 20th edition of #Doclisboa is drawing to a close this weekend, and the full list of winners has been announced. In the International Competition, the jury unanimously awarded Nikita Lavretski’s A Date in Minsk and Alejandro Vasquez’s A Landscapes Area Too Quiet For Me with the City of Lisbon Award and YouTube International Competition…
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Nordische Filmtage Lübeck announces full programme for 64th edition
The 64th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck has announced that 173 films will be shown in 212 screenings at Lübeck venues for its 2022 festival. Of those films, more than 70% of that line-up will be available for streaming by audiences all over #Germany. A total of twelve jury and audience prizes will be awarded, including the…
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Ji.hlava IDFF announces full 2022 programme
For its 2022 edition, the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will screen over three hundred films across all sections, including a unique retrospective of American Oscar-winning avant-gardist #Shirley Clarke# or the largest ever retrospective of Filipino cinema outside of Asia. Additionally, the festival spot was created by the internationally respected #Roberto Minervini#, whose retrospective was…
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US investigative film festival Double Exposure returns with in-person screenings for eighth edition
The eighth edition pf Washington DC’s #Double Exposure# investigative documentary film festival is set to kick off on 13 October and run through 16 October. The festival has announced the 11 investigative feature films that will screen throughout the event, kicking off with Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab. Additionally, Matt Heineman’s Retrograde takes the Closing Night…