Movies That Matter
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique presents six projects; announces 2022 award winners
From the Balkan Documentary Center and Sarajevo Film Festival, the 2022 edition of CineLink Industry Day’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique has come to a close with awards presented on 18 August 2022. Docu Rough Cut Boutique presented sicx projects overall in 2022 with countries represented, including #Ukraine, #Romania, #Hungary, #Croatia, #Serbia, #Georgia, #Kosovo, and more.…
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Sarajevo Film Festival announces full 2022 documentary competition programme
22 films will compete across the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Programme – Documentary Films. Of the selections, 8 films will be world premieres and will be received by a jury consisting of Director Hilal Baydarov, director #Salome Jashi# and Artistic Director of Movies that Matter Margje de Koning. Sarajevo Film Festival Documentary Competition DIARY…
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Sunny Side of the Doc 2022: the complete winners
The 33rd Sunny Side of the Doc has drawn to a close after 4 days of return to La Rochelle. The event ran in congruence with the 6th virtual reality-focused #PiXii Festival#, which took over eight cultural and heritage sites across the city. With #NewVoices as the central theme, compelling stories from around the world…
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Movies That Matter Festival announces full programme ahead of 14th edition
The 14th edition of the Movies that Matter Festival, the yearly film festival with human rights at its core, has announced the titles across its competitions. The festival will once again present two international competitions: the Grand Jury Fiction Award and Grand Jury Documentary Award. Along with the two international jury competitions, the festival also…
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Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland's resource exploitation at the hands of China.
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Movies That Matter announces new Afghanistan-focused theme for 2022 festival
Movies that Matter Festival 2022 (8 – 16 April) will present over eighty documentaries and feature films from around the world, along with debates, Q&As and educational programmes. The new theme Take on Afghanistan showcases urgent films from and about Afghanistan that deserve even more attention in light of recent events. The first main guest…
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International filmmaking community calls for immediate release of Myanmar filmmaker Ma Aient
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk and its founding institutions, the European Film Academy (EFA), #IDFA and #IFFR, and other festivals and film institutions, have called on Myanmar authorities to release filmmaker Ma Aeint from custody. As she was leaving her house on 5 June, Ma Aeint was detained. She is now being held…
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Movies that Matter 2021: The complete winners
The Netherlands’ Movies that Matter Festival has just announced its winners. The international film festival on #human rights# held 30 national and international premieres and a wide range of in-depth programmes. Later in 2021, the festival will organise screenings in satellite cities across The Netherlands. Movies that Matter 2021 winners Grand Jury Fiction Award: Quo…
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Framing Africa (what is the reality behind the stories we don’t tell?)
AFRICA: A Dutch filmmaker looks to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the dominance of Western perspectives of the Congo and the African continent.