Nick Cunningham

Sixty-three projects selected for festival’s co-production and co-financing market, plus new award for best pitch (worth €2,500) and additional category designed to support filmmakers through the pandemic.

Nathan Grossman’s doc 'Greta', about Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, that premiered in Venice joins Roy Andersson’s Venice winner About Endlessness and Amanda Kernell’s Sundance hit Charter.

2020 online ceremony to be hosted from Berlin on 12 December. Reykjavik to host the EFA Ceremony in 2022.

Programme features 206 films, 31 world premieres and 30 international premieres, spread over six ‘moments’ of the festival, all commencing October 22 and concluding March 10 2021.

Festival releases a statement 9 October to confirm virtual event. Festival dates extended, now to run 27 October to 8 November. Press conference October 14 to give details of programme.

“Today more than ever it is important that we cannot just see documentary film as entertainment any more. It costs too much money and there are too many crises on this planet, so for me it is very important that the films add something to change our situation,” says Flemish producer Emmy Oost.

'Dark Rider' may be about bikes and speed and men breaking records, but it also the stories of both a mother and a wife, as told by self-confessed petrol-head director Eva Küpper and produced by not so petrol-head Flemish producer Ellen de Waele.

Millennium Docs Against Gravity’s Artur Liebhart reflects on the success of his hybrid festival, held across seven cities in Poland September 4-18 and online September 19-October 4.

Giedrė Žickytė’s The Jump, about a Lithuanian sailor’s audacious bid for freedom during the Cold War and the resulting diplomatic furore, world-premieres October 9 at the 36th Warsaw Film Festival. The director talks to Business Doc Europe about boats, intrigue…and Henry Kissinger.

150 films and XR works, including 43 world premieres, 11 international, 7 European and 36 German premieres. International competitions and Camera Lucida section with world premieres by Ada Ushpiz, Shelly Silver and Boris Gerrets