Nick Cunningham

Best Documentary Project Award valued at 3000 euros to be spent on an international trailer. Eight Finnish doc projects to compete.

October and December deadlines for films, November and December deadlines for Pitching du Réel, Docs in Progress and Rough Cut Lab industry events. Festival to run 16 to 24 April 2021.

Love It Was Not by Maya Sarfaty awarded Best Israeli Film, Alexander Nanau’s Collective crowned Best International Film. Other winners include Tokyo Ride by Louise Lemoine and Ila Bêka, Aswang by Alyx Ayn Arumpac and Huntsville Station by Chris Filippone and Jamie Meltzer.

The Lux Prize, previously awarded by the European Parliament, has merged with EFA’s People’s Choice Award and is rebranded as the Lux European Audience Film Award.

British director Luke Holland died in June after the completion of Final Account, for which he interviewed the last generation of Germans – from Waffen SS to non-military citizens – who, one way or another, played a role in the Holocaust.

Four weekends comprising physical and online screenings, an art exhibition, talks and discussions to run 2 October - 15 November 2020

“Now we are operational we have approximately six or seven cases that we are actively dealing with on various levels. The world is changing rapidly and artists are more and more at risk in hotspots across the world,” underlined EFA Chair Mike Downey.

US maverick filmmaker Abel Ferrara spoke at Venice following the world-premiere of his Sportin’ Life, a personal and intimate documentary made in lockdown.

Greta Thunberg and I Am Greta director Nathan Grossman answered questions from the world press following the world premiere of the film at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.

Like Pasolini and Mel Gibson before him, Milo Rau journeys to the Italian city of Matera to shoot the tale of Christ’s Passion. But Rau’s Christ is a modern-day anti-slavery activist, his apostles are migrants, and the witnesses to (and participants in) the crucifixion are Matera’s townsfolk and tourists.