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Sofia DocuMental 2025 wraps with industry prizes and audience honours
The sixth edition of #Sofia DocuMental# closed with a string of awards recognizing both completed films and works in development, as the festival’s industry platform, the Balkan Documentary Market (BDM), distributed nearly €100,000 in support across film and podcast projects. The market ran 30 September – October alongside the festival, bringing nearly 70 international guests…
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Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!
HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
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Top festival programmers to join dok.incubator workshop in Czech Republic
Over 120 film professionals—including leading festival programmers, sales agents, and broadcasters—will gather in Olomouc, Czech Republic from 29 June to 7 July for the annual dok.incubator workshop. Programmers attending the workshop include Sudeep Sharma from #Sundance Film Festival, Mourad-Anis Moussa of Visions du Réel, Amalie Brok from #CPH:DOX, Heather Haynes representing #Hot Docs#, and Elena…
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An unknown soldier
CONFLICT: Contrasting quiet Ukrainian life compositions with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
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Widowhood in India as farmers’ suicides soar
GRIEF: Amidst India's farmer suicide crisis, a young woman navigates her grief as she joins a community of widows.
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Reverberations through time and space
PALESTINE: Four generations of Palestinian women take us on a journey through family, war, memory and identity.
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The cost of progress
POLLUTION: An exploration of the inextricable link between breathtaking natural beauty and ecological and health disaster, as much as that of life and death, in a Sicilian contested petrochemical plant.
