Nick Cunningham

Flemish producer Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film talks about two of his doc projects at RE>CONNEXT 2020; Four Brothers, about lives of of four Ukrainian brothers torn apart by war, and Parked Life, which examines the acute sense of isolation felt by a long distance lorry driver.

German docfest announces a new podcast series in collaboration with What's Up with Docs, programmers of Color Collective and Themba Bhebhe

A total of 47 films have been added to the IDFA 2020 program, in which “risk-taking artistic choices and fluid roles of artist and filmmaker come to the fore.”

Film selected for Dok Leipzig, also pick-ups of chess doc Glory to the Queen and Backstage – Vienna State Opera.

New EFA Award for Innovative Storytelling goes to director Mark Cousins, paying tribute to the ground-breaking 14-hour documentary odyssey produced by Hopscotch Films

Shot over three years, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno presents a mosaic of ‘encounters’ along the borders separating Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan and Lebanon, and follows on from his Berlinale Golden Bear-winning Fire At Sea (2016), about refugees on the island of Lampedusa.

Doclisboa co-director Miguel Ribeiro talks to Business Doc Europe about the creative reappraisal of the festival structure in 2020/21.

Hungary’s only human rights documentary film festival will run online 10–22 November. The festival kicks off 76 Days, which provides an account of the early days of the COVID pandemic in Wuhan, China.

61st Krakow Film Festival to be held in Krakow cinemas and online throughout Poland May 30 to June 6, 2021. First deadline: November 30, 2020 for films made before October 31.

For the first time at DOK Leipzig, a Golden Dove (€3,000) and a Silver Dove (€1,500) will be awarded in the newly established Audience Award competitions for long and short films. 20 docs and animations from 12 countries include five world, five international, one European and nine German premieres.