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
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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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
The dark art of politics
CONTROL: Intersecting power, truth, and myth through Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo.
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Melbourne 2011: The human condition
When faced with the choice of starvation or survival, the family chooses to trade their
younger daughter
A heartbreaking story
When Norma Khouri’s “memoir”, “Forbidden Love”, the heartbreaking story about her Jordanian friend stabbed to death by her father because she fell in love with a Christian man
NEW AUSTRIAN DOCS: Trademark – Proper Research
In Austria several public bodies provide film funding for documentaries, giving filmmakers a base on which to deal with Austrian issues, instead of having to please several international co-producers. The filmmakers return the favour by making thoroughly researched documents on complicated historical and contemporary issues in their own country. TUE STEEN MÜLLER saw a selection of the new docs at the Diagonale fest in Graz this past March.