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The winner of the VIKTOR DOK.international Main Competition Award was announced as Johatsu – Into Thin Air by Andreas Hartmann und Arata Mori. The VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb prize was won by Zwischen uns Gott by Rebecca Hirneise while the winner of the VIKTOR DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency prize was revealed as Kamay by Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaran. All prizes…

Additionally the Docs&Cat jury awarded Casa Reynal by Laia Manresa as Best Catalonian doc. “In this 27th edition, we increased by 60% the number of spectators in the cinemas, which reinforces not only the interest of Barcelona's audiences in documentaries but also the local and international creative effervescence of filmmakers who work with reality,” said Artistic Director Anna Petrus.

The big winner was Adelina by Aurela Berila which won both the DocsBarcelona Project Award and the HBO Max Best Pitch Award, as well as the San Sebastian Lau Haizetara Award. Dolya Gavanski’s Confessions of a Female Gamer picked up two prizes; the East Doc Platform Award and the Artist-in-Residency Program Award (Jacob Burns Film Center & Women Make Movies. All awards…

Greek director Efthymia (Efi) Zymvragaki and dok.incubator’s Andrea Prenghyová discussed the development of Light Falls Vertical which, from the most unlikely of starts, was selected for IDFA Envision Competition before being short-listed for the European Film Awards 2023. “Efi didn't have money…Efi didn't have a team [and] there was a producer who was not really a producer,” Prenghyová remembers of their first contact.

The maverick, madcap director of the eponymous ‘How to…’ series for HBO Max shared his working methods and creative processes with the audience of Docs Barcelona Industry this week. “The closest thing I can relate it to is when you're at a bar and someone's just talking at you for an hour,” he said of his interview technique. “That's the kind of vibe that I try to recreate in the work, where I like to find someone that can just talk without interruption and just doesn't care what I think, which is, I feel, how most conversations historically for me go.”

“I think that it's easier to describe the essence of MDAG by telling how we do it. We promote the festival's films and their directors rather than just promote the festival itself,” CEO and Fest Director Artur Liebhart tells BDE on the eve of his festival’s 21st edition, which will once more play across seven Polish cities. MDAG runs May 10 to May 19 before going online May 21 to June 6.

The 2024 film programme includes 48 world, 14 international, 17 European and 29 UK premieres from 56 countries of production. The International Competition consists of eight world prems including Tilda Swinton’s feature directorial debut (co-directed with Bartek Dziadosz). The 31st Sheffield DocFest runs June 12-17. The complete Industry programme will be announced May 15.

Six new teams are announced to compete for prize funding for innovative new audio projects June 15 at Sheffield DocFest 2024. A grand first prize of £5,000 will be awarded, with £2,000 going to the runner up. The award is designed to celebrate the global trend towards solo and episodic listening to factual audio. Sheffield DocFest runs June 12-17.

The True Film by Christina Zimmermann wins the DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats, while the DOK.archive award goes to Our Sister Angela – Black Power in the GDR by Katharina Warda and Jascha Hannover. The DOK.talent Award is given to the project Politik ist persönlich by Indira Geisel (HFF München). All awards…

Fifteen awards were handed out during the March 3 closing ceremony, of which 9 were won by women. The Best International Feature Documentary Award was given to Farming the Revolution by Nishta Jain, while Best Canadian Feature Documentary was named as The Soldier’s Lagoon by Pablo Álvarez-Mesa. The Special Jury Prize (International Feature Doc) was awarded to Death of a Saint by Patricia Bbaale Bandak. All awards…