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Sunny Side of the Doc 2024: Shaping the Future of Documentary Filmmaking
Sunny Side of the Doc is set to return to La Rochelle from 24 to 27 June, 2024, celebrating its 35th edition with a renewed ambition to shape the future of documentary filmmaking. This year’s event promises to be a milestone, showcasing innovative ideas and fostering global collaboration in the documentary genre. The four-day event…
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Sunny Side of the Doc concludes 2023 event; 2024 dates announced, and more.
The 34th edition of Sunny Side of the Doc has just concluded in La Rochelle, France. With a strong focus on viewers, this year’s edition recognised the significant impact of documentaries on audiences worldwide. The event attracted over 2,000 participants from 64 different countries, representing major broadcasters, studios, and decision-makers. This diverse gathering fostered collaboration…
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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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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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The spiritual significance of water
ECOLOGY: Fresh from a competition screening at DOK Leipzig, Violeta Paus' short film is a haunting and lyrical look at water pollution and deprivation.
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In our hands
ECOLOGY: Watch it and weep: Jennifer Abbott's remarkable, poetic, and lyrical film about the profound urgency, grief, and gravity of climate change is deeply moving.
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The fireball at the end of the world
COSMOS: In his tireless search for uncanny strangeness, Herzog encounters different types of meteorite-hunters who look for a lived connection with the larger cosmos – and explores the deeper causes of our apocalyptic thrills.
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The dark art of politics
CONTROL: Intersecting power, truth, and myth through Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo.
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