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  • Ascension, a film by Jessica Kingdon

    DocPoint Helsinki announces full 2022 online festival programme

    Finland’s DocPoint is organizing as a nationwide online festival for their 2022 edition, 31 January to 6 February 2022. Its opening event will be held in Kansalaistori Square in Helsinki city centre on 29 January and includes the screening of Susanna Helke’s latest film Ruthless Times – Songs of Care. DocPoint’s further propgramme consists of…

  • 5 Pills Away, a film by Karolina Domaglaska

    IDF announces complete 2022 East Doc Platform participants

    The 11th edition of the East Doc Platform will take place in Prague March 26 – April 1, 2022. Now, the East Doc Forum and East Doc Market selections, as well as the East Doc Series, East Doc Interactive and Czech Docs… Coming Soon have all been announced. The East Doc Platform 2022 is organized…

  • Rite of Spring, a film by Manoel de Oliveira

    Doclisboa announces colonialism focused retrospective for 2022 festival

    The first retrospective for #Doclisboa 2022, (6 – 16 October) will go by the theme of «The Colonial Question». The programme is meant to unfold the colonial pasts of Portugal and France, two countries that share the war period in the African territories and keep resisting a confrontation with their own history. The programme will…

  • Eternity at Last, a film by Stephan Bergmann

    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 2022 them as «Post Reality»

    The 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 10-20 March 2022, explores the post-reality we are currently experiencing, through a selection of ten films. Each film boldly outlines the heroes, anti-heroes, hidden secrets, and prismatic truths that reflect the threshold we are crossing as a world society. The ways through which cinema carves landscapes and places in the…

  • CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator

    CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator opens 2022 call for projects

    CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator seeks up to 10 women filmmakers (directors or producers) with a strong #creative documentary# project in any stage of production for their fifth call for projects. The program of CIRCLE 2022 features 3 tailor-made sessions in 3 different countries, focusing on different aspects of project development and reinforcing professional skills: Module…

  • Marco Bellocchio

    Visions du Réel announces 2022 Honorary Award recipient

    Visions du Réel will celebrate the legendary Italian director, screenwriter and producer #Marco Bellocchio# with its Honorary Award. The homage will include a Masterclass and a retrospective of selected works. Furthermore, his new documentary, Marx Can Wait, as yet unreleased in #Switzerland, will be screened. The prize will be awarded during the 53rd edition of…

  • FIFDH poster 2022

    FIFDH announces details of 2022 Impact Filmmaking For Human Rights seminar

    For its Impact Days Industry Programme, the #FIFDH, leading Human Rights Film Festival based in the heart of #Geneva, invites Filmmakers, Producers, and Impact Producers to an exclusive online session, Impact Filmmaking for Human Rights. On January 25, 2022, join a wide range of international experts and award-winning filmmakers who will share their experiences and…

  • Watch Docs Belarus 2022

    WATCH DOCS Belarus returns with online 2022 festival

    The #Human Rights# Film Festival WATCH DOCS Belarus returns, and be held under the name HUMAN RIGHTS EXTREMIST. All films will be available for viewing online in Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. The Polish Helsinki Foundation has taken over the organization of the online festival as a long time partner of WATCH DOCS Belarus. From…

  • Komian and Pickles, a film by Koichi Sato

    DA Films travels through thirty years of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

    A 10-film selection from one of Asia’s most respected documentary festivals, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, highlights key works from its three decades+ of existence. This exclusive focus features documentaries by #Ryusuke Hamaguchi#, #Naomi Kawase#, and #Ogawa Productions#, among many others. The ten films making up Made in Japan, Yamagata 1989 – 2021 trace a…

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