Nick Cunningham

Organisers of the Budapest-based human rights festival invite docmakers, aspiring film critics and students to apply for the 7th DocLab Workshop, the inaugural Film Critics Workshop and this year’s Student Jury. The 19th edition of the documentary film festival will take place 8-20 November 2022.

The European Film Academy has revealed the 13 feature-length documentary films, as chosen by a committee comprising a diverse range of European experts, that have been recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2022. The European Film Awards will be presented on 10 December in Reykjavík.

Aida Begić, Dana Budisavljević, Fatma Riahi, Phil Grabsky and Ensar Altay will all serve on the international jury of the fifth edition of AJB DOC Film Festival, which will be held in Sarajevo from September 9 to 13. The five-member jury will select the best film of the AJB DOC Festival Competition Programme and award the AJB DOC Main Award.

At the end of the 13th MakeDox Creative Documentary Festival which ran 18 to 25 August as an in-person event in Skopje, North Macedonia, five awards (plus Special Mentions) were handed out. Feature doc awards went to Natasa Urban’s The Eclipse, A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont and Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner. All awards…

The two organizations have announced joint initiatives to be presented at the 79th Venice Film Festival in solidarity with filmmakers who have been arrested or jailed over the past year. First is an international panel on September 3, the second is a flash mob on the red carpet (September 9) before the screening in Sala Grande of the competition film No Bears by Jafar Panahi.

The UK-based power house will handle international sales while the company’s distribution arm will handle the UK and Irish release (dates to be announced soon) on Poitras’ Nan Goldin documentary set for high-profile Venice, Toronto and New York premieres. NEON recently announced that they will release the film in North America.

Srđan Keča’s Museum of the Revolution (pictured) wins the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film (€4000). Vedrana Pribačić’s Bigger Than Trauma receives the Human Rights Award. Igor Ivanko picks up the Special Jury Award for Fragile Memory. Visar Jusufi’s We,…Composition wins the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film (€2000).

Zambrano joined the Festival as Head of Film Programmes earlier in 2022. Following a return to a predominantly in-person festival, attracting 30,323 attendances, the organisation is adopting a “new, joint leadership model for the future” and has commenced the search for a new Managing Director and Creative Director.

The five Docu Rough Cut Boutique Awards were handed out August 18, with Gergő Somogyvári’s Fairy Garden (Hungary) picking up two prizes. This year’s jury comprised: Margje de Koning, Movies That Matter; Hanka Kastelicova, HBO Europe; Eugen Kelemen, Avanpost; Catherine Le Clef, Cat&Docs, and Marcel Maiga, DOK Leipzig. Awards in full…

For their debut documentary world-premiering at Edinburgh, intrepid filmmakers Cat and Hannah set off on a 3000-kilometre odyssey along Central Asia's Pamir Highway, which runs from Uzbekistan, through Tajikistan and into Kyrgyzstan. With women “both behind the wheel and behind the camera,” the pair wanted to use the journey to examine the lives of women in the region. Cat and Hannah explain more to Business Doc Europe.