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Submissions now open for East Doc Platform 2023
Creative feature-length documentaries (creative story/character-driven), factual series and non-fiction VR and transmedia projects from the CEE region in development, production and post-production are invited to submit projects to the 12th edition of the East Doc Platform (March 24-30, 2023). The East Doc Platform 2023 will take place at the French Institute in Prague from 24…
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Doclisboa announces full 2022 programme for 20th anniversary edition
From 6 to 12 October, #Doclisboa will take place in the usual venues of the festival around Lisbon. Now, the complete programme for this year’s edition has been announced. Celebrating 20 years in 2022, the festival has presented more than 3,500 films, including 548 world premieres, having welcomed an audience of more than half a…
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FIFDH Impact Days announces 2023 call for submissions for socially impactful documentary projects
Geneva’s human rights film festival #FIFDH has launched its #Impact Days# 2023 call for projects. The FIFDH Impact Days industry programme focuses on the transformative change documentaries can bring to the world; it is dedicated to matching potential partners around common themes for collaborative campaigning on urgent issues. Each year FIFDH Impact Days selects 16…
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Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles for 2022 festival
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to 30 October. As every year, the festival will bring new original documentaries, thematic retrospectives, the best in experimental filmmaking and a number of non-competitive programme sections. Now, Ji.hlava IDFF has announced the first titles and…
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MajorDocs announces eight reflective documentaries for fourth festival programme
Located on the island of #Mallorca, #MajorDocs celebrates its fourth edition from 4 to 8 October 2022. With its programme gradually being announced, the «slow» film festival has now announced the eight films screened across its duration. These eight transgressive documentary films, each done through an authorial gaze, invite audiences to reflect and consider their…
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AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners for fifth documentary festival
The fifth Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival has ended with the international jury deciding on its best film and other awards. The top award for the best film in the Competition program was awarded to Gorki Glaser-Müller, the screenwriter and director of the film Children of the Enemy. The unanimous decision was bestowed…
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Kids Kino Docs welcomes six youth-focused documentary projects for 2022/23 workshop
The second edition of Kids Kino Docs has announced the participants of the documentary development programme for filmmakers. Organised by the New Horizons Association and the South Norwegian Film Centre, the programme seeks is to support the development of documentary films and series for young audiences. As part of a 15-month-long programme, six participants from…
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AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners of first Industry Days platform
After three days of Industry activities, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival has announced the complete winners of its inaugural Industry Days platform. The event ran from 10 to 12 September, and 32 projects from Southeast Europe, Caucasus, the Middle East, and North Africa (MENA) region were presented. Ultimately, the top prize went to Srđan…
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Fifth AJB DOC Film Festival opens with Susanna Regina Meures’ ‘Girl Gang’
The fifth edition of the AJB DOC International Documentary Film Festival opened last night with the screening of the film Girl Gang (dir. Susanna Regina Meures). After the video retrospective of the AJB DOC Film Festival, Edhem Fočo, the director of AJB DOC, addressed the audience. His speech was followed by the official opening of…