Nick Cunningham

In Oscar-nominated Zofia Kowalewska’s feature-length doc debut, the filmmaker travels with her 92-year-old grandfather to a remote village in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled during WWII, in search of his first love.

A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic ‘On the Silver Globe’. Docs to Go! pitch presentation

On the eve of the Krakow Film Festival Industry event, Katarzyna Wilk of Polish Docs outlines the effectiveness of the pitch event, and how the switch to online is proving very beneficial in 2020.

Spotlights are on Sarah Maldoror, Lynne Sachs and Simplice Ganou, while the retrospective is revealed as Reimagining the Land, curated by Christopher Small.

From 1997 to 2001 Cooke was a film programmer of Sheffield Doc/Fest and is currently the CEO and one of the two founders of Renegade Pictures.

The Institute of Documentary Film has selected 12 documentaries, out of a record number of 108 submissions for the 18th edition of the Ex Oriente Film workshop.

Levan is a drunk whose every decision is influenced by its potential effect on his hypochondriac mother, so he generally does nothing at all. He also happens to have been one of Georgia’s most creative musicians…

Mira Jargil’s film title carries neither a question nor an exclamation mark, so we are kept guessing until the end as to whether a Syrian family divided by war can be united once more.

Like the festival (which kicks off May 31), Krakow Industry will be online in 2020, and offers up a wide range of opportunities to collaborate with the Polish doc industry.

Doclisboa joint directors reveal plans for a “new format” that will offer “six different moments’ between October 2020 and March 2021.