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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films
The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and acute glance at the most heated issues of our times. The International Competition includes Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, which unfolds the spectacular and ambivalent story of the bulletproof vest’s inventor. In A House Made of…
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DocPoint wraps with increased audiences, national & international award announcements
DocPoint, Finland’s biggest documentary film festival ended yesterday, 6 February. Held mainly online between 31 January – 6 February, the festival attracted an audience around Finland and included 64 domestic and foreign films. For 2022, DocPoint saw a 1/3 audience increase compared to the 2021 festival, also held online. The DocPoint awards were given on…
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Millennium Docs Against Gravity to feature Susan Sontag retrospective
The 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity (12 – 22 May 2022) will present both the first documentary films, as well as feature productions, of American essayist #Susan Sontag#. This will be the first time such a wide-ranging showcase will be presented to the public in #Poland. At Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the festival audience will…
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CPH:DOX taps climate change documentary as 2022 opening film
The Danish film Into the Ice by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld has been selected as the opening film for #CPH:DOX on 21 March 2022. The film will also compete in the festival’s DOX:AWARD competition. Into the Ice puts forward the questions: How fast is the #Greenland ice sheet melting? What future are we heading towards when…
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Sunny Side of the Doc announces 2022 Global Pitch selections, jury
From 180 projects issued from 47 countries, Sunny Side of the Doc has announced its 12 global projects to pitch online at the 2022 market. The «Womens Voices» selection – showcasing important, compelling, topical, relevant and original stories with a female perspective – will feature 12 documentary projects from 11 different countries including #Australia, Belgium,…
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Berlinale documentary jury and full competition programme announced
The #Berlinale has long been committed to the diversity of documentary forms. A distinct award for the best documentary film was launched in 2017. In total, 18 documentary forms from across the 2022 Berlinale programme are nominated. A three-member jury will pick the winner. The jury consists of Chinese filmmaker #Wang Bing#, Lebanese sound designer…
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Cinéma du réel spotlights African documentary new wave with 2022 focus
Dieudo Hamadi was selected at both #Berlinale and #Cannes; #Hassen Ferhani# was awarded at #Locarno. These are only two African documentary filmmakers now recognized by the prominent Western festivals. But, they are also the first of a new wave of cinema that holds a mirror up to #Africa of its own image and upends its…
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Laura Huertas Millán joins 7th Forecast Platform mentorship team; call for projects now open
Each year, creative minds working in various disciplines are invited to submit project proposals via Berlin’s interdisciplinary-focused #Forecast Platform# open call. Now, Forecast Platformhas announced its six mentors for its seventh edition—investigative journalist #Alia Ibrahim# (LB), artist #Ana Prvački# (RS/RO), stand‐up comedian #Daliso Chaponda# (MW), choreographer #Florentina Holzinger# (AT), nonfiction filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán (FR/CO),…
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FIPADOC 2022: The complete winners
The 4th edition of #FIPADOC concludes today, Sunday 23 January 2033, and has announced its full winners. Led by Paweł Łoziński’s The Balcony Movie and Camille Ponsin’s Marie-José vous attend à 16h taking the Grand Prix International and National, respectively. See below for the compleete list of FIPADOC 2022 winners, including awards presented by #Cine+,…