Georgia
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«It’s not about building a slogan or a topic. It’s about building trust between the films.»
TRIESTE FF: The Trieste Film Festival is Italy’s key window onto Central and Eastern European cinema, and its 2026 documentary competition arrives as ten Italian premieres shaped by war, migration, labour, and the afterlives of institutions.
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The Kartli Kingdom
GEORGIA: Three generations endure postwar exile in a fractured building above Tbilisi.
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«There’s something wrong, and I want to understand what it is»
INTERVIEW: Vitaly Mansky talks with Modern Times Review on his Manifesto for Real Cinema.
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CPH:FORUM 2025 announces documentary selection and new industry awards
CPH:FORUM, the leading international financing and co-production event within #CPH:DOX, has unveiled its official project selection for 2025, featuring 30 documentary projects from 26 countries. Taking place 24-27 March 2025, the forum will connect 5 filmmakers and producers with key industry players, including representatives from Netflix, ARTE, HBO Europe, BBC, and Sundance Institute. The lineup…
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Lynching the vote in America, again
ELECTIONS: Investigative journalist Greg Palast connects voter suppression in the U.S. to historical vigilantism.
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CPH:DOX opens «CHANGE» call for projects
CPH:DOX, EAVE, and IMS have announced a call for submissions from documentary filmmakers in #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, #Belarus, #Georgia, #Moldova, and #Ukraine for a new co-production training programme titled «CHANGE.» This initiative aims to nurture and develop documentary projects from these regions through a series of intensive workshops and an international market presentation.The programme is open…
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Baltic Sea Docs announces 26 selected projects for 2024 edition
The leading documentary pitching event in the Baltic countries, Baltic Sea Docs, has finalised its project selection for the 28th edition, set for Riga from 1-6 September 2024. This year, 22 projects in development and production, along with four post-production projects in the «Coming Soon» session, were selected. The 26 projects hail from 17 countries,…
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DOX:EXCHANGE: documenting change in restrictive environments
Making documentary films and nurturing an ecosystem is not easy for most filmmakers, but in #Belarus and #Georgia, filmmakers encounter hurdles outside of the usual production/funding/distribution challenges. Both countries have a growing documentary filmmaking communities and a mostly self-made industry infrastructure. Challenging political situations on the ground and increasingly restricted arts environments have closed screening…

