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IDFA announces 2021 Masters, Best of Fests, and Paradocs selections
IDFA has added another 65 films to its 2021 festival lineup, 17 – 28 November, including the non-competitive program sections Best of Fests, Masters, and Paradocs. Best of Fests will feature another robust selection of films favored across the 2021 festival circuit. These titles include Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing, Marie Amiguet’s The…
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FIFDH opens call for 2022 Impact Lab
The Swiss city of #Geneva, the headquarter of the #WHO, #UNHCR, Human Rights Council, hundreds of NGOs, and philanthropists active in #human rights# protection and advocacy, hosts one of the leading events dedicated to film and human rights, the #FIFDH. Through its Impact Days industry programme, film teams have the occasion to strategically connect with…
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IDFA announces focus programmes and 2021 DocLab theme
IDFA (17 – 28 November) has just unveiled the two focus programs of its upcoming edition: «The Future Tense» and «unConscious Bias». Alongside the announcement, details on the fifteenth edition of IDFA DocLab, and the corresponding theme program «Liminal Reality», which acts as a celebration of ambiguity in life, tech, and art, have also been…
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Ji.hlava IDFF to present US filmmakers to Europe as part of «New Visions Forum»
As part of the Ji.hlava IDFF «New Visions Forum», the festival will effectively connect the U.S. documentary filmmakers with the potential co-producers, distributors, sales representatives and film festivals from Europe. Selected #USA documentary projects in both production (29 October) and in development (28 October) stages will be presented by the director-producer pair along with a…
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MajorDocs returns to Mallorca for 3rd annual slow documentary festival experience
Mallorca’s #MajorDocs returns for another radical proposal in the festival scene: cinema of the real, creative processes, and slowness. MajorDocs invites viewers to slow down and dive deeper into the works and their auteurs. This slow documentary film festival will be held from 5 to 9 of October in Mallorca and set to recovering two…
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Nordisk Panorama 2021: The complete winners
Of 62 nominated Nordic short and documentary films, the jury members and audiences of the 32nd #Nordisk Panorama# have now chosen the winners of its five competition sections. The award ceremony was held at Malmö City Hall with all the winning directors present. Nordisk Panorama 2021 winners Best Nordic Documentary: Aboli’s Journey (Abolis resa) (dir.…
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IDFA announces first 2021 selections from Guest of Honour and Lifetime Achievements Recipients
IDFA has just announced the first films selected for its 34th edition, held between 17 – 28 November on location in Amsterdam. These early selections come from the Top 10 program curated by Guest of Honor #Hito Steyerl# (more like 14, actually), and a four-title program with the films of #Artavazd Pelechian#, both of whom…
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Nordisk Panorama welcomes Polish Docs as guest country delegation
For the second time since 1994, #Poland has been welcomed to the Nordisk Panorama Forum. The #Polish Docs# delegation will include producers and filmmakers developing documentaries and short films. The delegation is organised by the Krakow Film Foundation and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute and the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage, and Sport. As…
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Romanian documentary filmmaker critically beaten covering illegal logging
While filming a new documentary on illegal #deforestation in #Romania, filmmaker and journalist #Mihai Dragolea#, environmental activist #Tiberiu Bosutar#, and a third companion, Radu Mocanu, were brutally beaten by a group of twenty men. The attack took place in a forest in Cosna, Suceava County, and was carried out with axes and forks. As well…