Nick Cunningham

Silver Bear Jury Prize for Mr Bachmann and His Class by Maria Speth and Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to Yibrán Asuad for the editing on Una película de policías (A Cop Movie) by Alonso Ruizpalacios.

21 projects are selected for 2021 edition of Doc Lab Poland. First session scheduled for April in Warsaw (online or in a hybrid mode) while the second session (DOCS TO START, DOCS TO GO! plus individual meetings) is planned offline for Krakow Film Festival.

Director Phie Ambo’s new doc follows the Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities and young environmentalists as they fight for a more sustainable world. 70/30 will be live transmitted on CPH:DOX’s streaming platform.

In No táxi do Jack (Jack’s Ride) we are told the engaging story of our eponymous hero’s emigration to New York in the 1970s with just $300 in his pocket. Now he is back in his native Portugal and eyeing up an altogether different life, one of retirement. Director Susana Nobre grabs a cab with BDE.

In the film, after 20 years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova travels back to her great-grandparents house where she endured damaging traumas that left a deep lasting imprint on her memory. Jury statement underlines the “personal courage combined with cinematic mastery that creates a film that is both powerful and emotionally layered.”

Amsterdam-based Danish filmmaker Maia Elisabeth Sørensen underlines to Business Doc Europe how, despite dealing in dance as a director, choreographer, editor and performer, her film work is about so much more.

Ten doc projects to receive funding through IBF Classic, the Fund’s flagship grant program that supports independent, critical, and artistic voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Total funding support amounts to €125k.

Thirty-five projects selected for the 2021 edition of CPH:FORUM, including new projects from Oscar-nominated Lucy Walker, Sundance winners Mads Brügger and Eugene Jarecki, Berlinale multi-award winning Geneviève Dulude-De Celle and Venice-Orizzonti winner Lech Kowalski.

It is rare that you sit down to a documentary and are moved to tears, only to find out it’s a fiction but be equally moved to elation. Brothers Saša and David Vajda talk to Business Doc Europe about their extraordinary German film Jesus Egon Christus, which features the mesmerising Paul Arámbula in the lead.

DOK.fest München announces 13-film shortlist for the award’s fourth roll-out, valued at €7500 and the first award in Germany to focus on the work of documentary film producers. Fest also announces three-person jury.