Iikka Vehkalahti

  • Submit your documentary projects to the Ex Oriente Film 2023

    Submit your documentary projects to the Ex Oriente Film 2023

    Ex Oriente Film workshop 2023 is an international project-based training program that supports the development and funding of exceptional creative documentaries from Central and #Eastern Europe#. They are currently accepting applications for feature-length documentary projects and creative documentary series projects until April 14th, 2023. The workshop includes 12 documentary feature-length projects and 5 documentary series…

  • State-conjured terrorism

    State-conjured terrorism

    RUSSIA: An ordinary Russian teenager was arrested and incarcerated on charges of extremism. Three years later, the fight for her innocence continues.

  • Ex Oriente Film opens submissions for 2021 workshop

    Ex Oriente Film opens submissions for 2021 workshop

    Established in 2003, Ex Oriente Film was the very first training initiative for Eastern European creative documentaries. In 18 years, over 200 documentary projects from Eastern and Central Europe have gone through it. Now, applications are open for the 2021 Ex Oriente Film workshop for projects and docuseries in development and early production, challenging genres,…

  • When a war reporter chooses a side in conflict

    When a war reporter chooses a side in conflict

    An intriguing portrait of a war reporter that died under murky circumstances during the 90s in wartime Yugoslavia, after trading in his pen for a more active role in the bloody conflict.

  • Drifting in a sea of amiguity

    Drifting in a sea of amiguity

    According to Pirjo honkasalo: ”making the image is the documentary – the visual aesthetic is the essential part.” AS DOX’s Pamela Cohn comments, she is attached to the logic of the dream, and trusts the simple poetry of images.

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