Nick Cunningham
CPH:FORUM selects 34 projects for its 2020 edition
These include new projects from the Oscar-nominated Laura Nix and Talal Derki, Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie, Sundance winners Jialing Zhang and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and the Venice-winning team of Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski.
Cinéma du réel (13-22 March 2020) announces 24 Int’l and 20...
Five world prems plus 4 international premieres in International Competition. All are world prems in French competition.
Thessaloniki Doc Fest names its Masters of Documentary 2020
Legendary Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon, avant-garde French-Colombian Laura Huertas Millán and Lauren Greenfield, who chronicles the accumulation of vast wealth, will be in the spotlight at Thessaloniki (5-15 March 2020).
15 films selected for Int’l Comp at 12th Taiwan Doc Fest,...
44 competition titles in total across International, Asian and Taiwan categories.
Homo Homini Award to jailed Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov
The People in Need NGO award to be presented by Oleg Sentsov March 5 2020 to Yorov’s brother during the opening of the One World Film Fest, Prague.
Journeyman to the Moon
Journeyman Pictures acquires world rights (except The Netherlands and Flanders) to Frank Herrebout's moon doc Fallen Astronaut.
UK’s Learning to Skateboard… wins Oscar for Best Short Doc
Academy nod for Carol Dysinger's film about the all-girl skate school in Kabul; follows BAFTA win.
Polish short docs win at Slamdance and Budapest
Awards for Shooting Stars at the Sundance shadow fest and 19:91 at Budapest International Documentary Festival.
Finnish doc Colombia in my Arms wins Dragon Award Best Nordic...
The Gothenburg Film Festival prize is valued at €25,000.
Epicentro wins Grand Jury Prize of Sundance World Cinema Doc Comp
The Reason I Jump garners Audience Award, and Benjamin Ree’s The Painter and the Thief wins Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling. Further prizes for The Earth is Blue as an Orange, Softie and Acasa, My Home.

















