Nick Cunningham

Norwegian producer Bjarte Mørner Tveit of Piraya Film discusses the Nordic collaboration (plus UK, courtesy of BBC Storyville) on the dynamic doc mini-series The Mole: Undercover in North Korea.

In Bitter Love, screening in Best of Fests, Jerzy Sladkowski tells us that while the rest of the world takes to the road to deal their problems, Russians take to the river. In this instance on a Volga cruise ship, full of lonely hearts. The director talks to Business Doc Europe.

Saskia Gubbels’ Sheltered in Dutch Competition is a paean to love for our furry four-legged friends. But set in the Amsterdam Animal Shelter, it is also an indictment of the human species and its frequent propensity towards cruelty. The director explains all.

Chiledoc is out in force November 19 during IDFA Industry, as a delegation of doccers present a selection of upcoming features. IDFA also presents two Chilean world-premieres in 2020. The Sky Is Red plays in First Appearance while Arica is selected for Frontlight.

The East Doc Interactive is open to all kinds of non-fiction interactive and immersive projects, covering any projects with an innovative and cutting-edge approach to the possibilities of new media storytelling and the medium itself. Deadline November 27 2020.

An Ordinary Country, Tomasz Wolski’s immersion into the Secret Service archives of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, packs a considerable political punch, and delivers on an aesthetic level too. The Best of Fests director explains all to BDE.

NFB to present Frontlight doc The Magnitude of All Things, about grief suffered both personally and on an environmental level, which features Greta Thunberg. Also three new interactive works to be showcased at DocLab, including the phone adventure Motto to be broadcast live from Montreal.

Berlin-based sales house Rise and Shine have three major music-themed documentaries on their slate, including the Here We Move, Here We Groove about Balkan Beats godfather Robert Soko in Dutch Competition. Festival manager Anja Dziersk also points out that work life under lockdown hasn’t been so bad…

Prague-based sales agency picks up the pastoral Bosco, directed by Alicia Cano, in Luminous, and Eleonore Weber’s There Will Be No More Night, based on video recordings from the American and the French armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, selected for Paradocs.

Polish broadcaster follows ARTE-NDR, BBC Arabic, NHK Japan, RSI & RTS Switzerland and RTV Slovenia in acquiring the Israeli/German co-pro from Go2. The company’s DfS slate also includes Living in Paradise (Best Doc Film Award, Haifa) and Doc Aviv Best Debut winner Rain in her Eyes.