Nick Cunningham

Ukrainian project Elevation picks up $5000 USD prize following its Docu Talents from the East pitch at Sarajevo.

Three further projects were pitched at Sarajevo, on the nature of memory, the legacy of freethinking in the time of Czech Normalisation, and an intimate confession from a woman to her brother.

It may be beautiful but Český Krumlov, the second most visited city in the Czech Republic, is unrecognisable as an urban community. The reason? Over-tourism. Meanwhile, in Elevation, an ageing Ukrainian ski-coach confronts his demons in search of renewed success.

Seventeen producers from 17 European countries plus one from guest country Israel selected for 2-part programme running at Ji.hlava 2020 and Berlinale 2021.

67 films selected for open-air screening in Skopje (North Macedonia), but discussions, masterclasses and talks online. Also online is the MakeCoProDox Forum, kicking August 20-25.

2017 Locarno Golden Leopard winner Wang Bing talks to BDE about his new project, dealing with African migration to Guangzhou (China), whose realisation is temporarily interrupted by the global pandemic.

Algerian/Swiss filmmaker Mohammed Soudani talks to Business Doc Europe about his upcoming doc project that argues that the future of Africa belongs to women.

Acclaimed auteur Lucrecia Martel talks to Business Doc Europe about Pardo 2020-winning Chocobar, her Covid-interrupted doc project that takes its cue from the murder in 2009 of Argentinian land rights activist Javier Chocobar.

Due to exceptionally high response rate, DocCelerator set to run extra training workshop at the end of August 2020.

French director Justine de Gasquet, currently studying cinema at HEAD Geneva, discusses her archive-based short film about African-American culture, as told through the testimony of Prisoner no. 74A3701.