Nick Cunningham

Portuguese docmaker wins the €5000 award with Ghosts: Long Way Home. Film nominated by Doclisboa. Doc Alliance is an international network of seven European doc film festivals, each of which nominated a film for the prize.

Lynne Sachs’ Film About A Father Who is a film decades in the making, an extensive study of her philandering father which concludes a “triptych” of studies into the human condition. In January 2021 MoMI (NY) will present a retrospective of her works.

Workshops cover stages of rough cut, fine cut and near picture lock. Three projects at Sundance 2020 World Cinema Doc Competition were developed during previous dok.incubator editions.

European documentaries and/or docmakers were garlanded across no fewer than eight categories of the 2020 European Film Awards that were presented 8-12 December. The top prize of European Documentary 2020 went to Alexander Nanau’s Collective, after votes from 3800+ Academy members were counted.

A Vida em Comum (Life in Common) tells of the sustainable lifestyle within a poor community on the outskirts of Lisbon, where self-made houses and domiciles are now threatened with demolition. Director Diogo Filipe talked to BDE after the film's world-premiere.

The film is also nominated for LUX European Audience Film Award, together with Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round and Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi. Mark Cousins picks up the new EFA Award for Innovative Storytelling for Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema.

In 'O que não se vê' ('What you don’t see') Portuguese director Paulo Abreu returns to a project he put to one side after the death of his friend and collaborator, turning it into something altogether different during lockdown.

First two nights of the extended 2020 awards ceremony (running 8-12 December) sees four awards for European documentaries, plus Eurimages Co-production Award to doc/fiction producer Luís Urbano. European Short Film winner announced Dec 10: 'All Cats Are Grey in The Dark' by Lasse Linder.

Holland was previously chair of board 2014-19. Six new board members also elected. Matthijs Wouter Knol to take over as EFA Director, as previously announced.

André Guiomar’s feature doc charts the lives of residents within Porto’s doomed Aleixo social housing project, as they prepare for its demolition and their own relocation. The film world-premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020.