East Doc Platform 24

Lithuanian Viktorija Mickute participated in the Ex Oriente training program in 2023/24, receiving the Cut thru the Noise Award, dedicated to the project team that made the most progress during the workshop at this year’s edition of East Doc Platform. In the film, Mickute follows several Lithuanian women from different generation who were all devotedfans of Latin American telenovelas in the 1990s.

Crowned the most promising European project at last year’s Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, Pepa Lubojacki’s debut project If Pigeons Turned to Gold zooms in on four family members, including Lubojacki’s own brother and cousins, unhoused for over a decade and struggling with addiction. The work-in-progress, produced by Wanda Kaprálová for CLAW AV with Guča Films, was presented both in Prague and last month at CPH:DOX.