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,
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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.
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
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking
An unknown soldier
CONFLICT: Contrasting quiet Ukrainian life compositions with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
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.
Reverberations through time and space
PALESTINE: Four generations of Palestinian women take us on a journey through family, war, memory and identity.
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.
Dreaming of a change
HEALTHCARE: The relentless efforts to soothe patients’ suffering amidst institutional challenges in a Paris hospital.
Hospitals and their victims
HEALTHCARE: In Cannes’ ACID section, the urgent question about the health system is pointed out.