Nick Cunningham

Fest runs May 5 - 16, 2021 and is demanding ‘stirring, touching, curious, enlightening and urgent documentary films.’ The Covid-affected event in 2020 attracted an online audience of 75,700.

Eight new documentary feature projects were presented during the 9th edition of the Finnish Film Affair on September 24. The winner of the Best Documentary...

Early entry deadline set for November 6; first in series of Autumn weekenders ‘Into the World’ to come to Sheffield & Online 2 - 4 October; tribute to be paid to the late Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 – 13 April 2020) as one of the Filmmakers in Focus for 2020.

The programme is aimed at documentary makers looking for “a clearer dramaturgical structure and a more streamlined production process for their next project in development.”

Deadline of November 30 for film submissions leading Greek doc fest and Oscar® documentary feature qualifying event, running 4-14 March 2021.

Long and short competition selections include works by Andreas Voigt, Jan Soldat, Carsten Rau, Martina Priessner, Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann

In Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Clive Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog reunite, this time to examine meteors and meteorites (those that make it into the Earth’s atmosphere) from scientific, ethnographic, religious, historical and aesthetic perspectives.

Doc haul to include a pitch of Lennart Stuyck’s fantastical story of two Somali pirates Capturing the Pirate King plus Draw for Change (pictured), a documentary series about female cartoonists who use their drawings to empower women and strive for gender equality.

The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) and its founding institutions, EFA, IDFA and IFFR, as well as Berlinale, call for the Sudanese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and the four artists imprisoned with him.

Czech docfest’s October programme to offer the first and last film by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, a portrait of artist Marina Abramović, Giedre Zickyte’s The Jump and Hubert Sauper’s Epicentro. Women to dominate the music doc section and Inspiration Forum to turn gaze towards Africa.