Fifteen films, six from Europe, will advance in the 2020 Oscars documentary feature category after 159 films were submitted this year. The final shortlist of films will be announced January 13 ahead of the awards ceremony February 9 2020.
The six European films are:
Advocate: Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche (Israel/Canada/Switz)
Aquarela: Victor Kossakovsky (UK/Germany/Denmark) The Cave: Feras Fayyad (Denmark/Syria/Germany/US/Qatar/France)
For Sama: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts (UK/US/Syria)
Honeyland: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)
Maiden: Alex Holmes (UK)
Honeyland is also short-listed in the Best International Feature Film category (formerly known as Best Foreign Film).
For Sama (pictured) recently picked up the European Documentary prize at the 2019 European Film Awards.
The full short list in the 2020 documentary feature category is as follows:
Advocate: Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche
American Factory: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
The Apollo: Roger Ross Williams
Apollo 11: Todd Douglas Miller
Aquarela: Victor Kossakovsky
The Biggest Little Farm: John Chester
The Cave: Feras Fayyad
The Edge of Democracy: Petra Costa
For Sama: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
The Great Hack: Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim
Honeyland: Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska
Knock Down The House: Rachel Lears
Maiden: Alex Holmes
Midnight Family: Luke Lorentzen
One Child Nation: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
