Nick Cunningham

In total, 189 feature-length documentaries and 74 short documentaries from around the world will play throughout the festival’s 11-day duration (5-15 March 2020)

From the idyllic German lake of Walchansee to Mexico, the Greek islands and San Francisco for the Summer of Love, Janna Ji Wonders tells the complex and at times tragic story of her family.

Magnolia Pictures International revealed sales of four documentary features including The Fight and Assassins and Once Were Brothers.

Knoxville/Tennessee filmmaker Douglas McDaniel was at Berlinale DocSalon to raise finance on a number of projects, including Löttken: Rising Nationalism Then and Now about a woman who, as a 15-year-old girl acted a courier for the German Resistance during WW2.

Selina Murat and Polina Teif spoke at the end of the 4-day pilot DocSalon Toolbox Programme, designed to deliver doc business know-how and connections to creatives from underrepresented groups.

The Agora Doc Market of the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival is enhanced by three new initiatives in 2020, aimed to boost doc activity in the South-east Europe and Med region.

Director Carol Dysinger will attend the leading Greek doc event for the March 15 conclusion

National Geographic Documentary Films picks up Sundance selection entry Saudi Runaway from Berlin-based Rise and Shine.

Andreas Rochholl speaks about his EFM doc The Female Voice of Iran, screening February 26. The film shows the digital methods employed to defy a ban on Iranian women wishing to express themselves via song.

Neon has acquired North American rights to Gunda, directed by Russian auteur Victor Kossakovsky and selected for Berlinale Encounters.