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The film received excellent reviews after its world premiere at Sundance and has its international premiere in Berlinale Panorama. “I am so happy that The Eternal Memory has found its home at MTV Documentary Films which, in recent years, has believed in the artistic innovation of documentaries and has released documentaries that I greatly admire,” says Alberdi, who was Oscar-nom’d in 2021 for The Mole Agent.

INTRO:DOX is a new initiative that supports emerging filmmakers, and will kick off this year’s industry programme in Copenhagen. The festival also announced a record number of eleven international delegations attending CPH:INDUSTRY, and has published a preliminary list of decision makers confirmed for CPH:FORUM 2023 taking place March 20-23.

The fifth FIPADOC Industry Days closed Thursday January 26 with the award of prizes to French and international projects. “Our aim is to ignite collaborations and create long-lasting ties within the European documentary industry,” FIPADOC Creative Director Christine Camdessus told Business Doc Europe during the event.

An engaging, charmingly candid and ultimately warm-hearted film that depicts the complex lives within a neurodiverse working-class Australian family. We have seen verité-style documentaries that follow families before…but this family is unlike any other, and the film appropriately offers them a lovely (and loving) filmic platform.

DOK.fest München’s market for “co-creation and co-production” invites submissions from German-speaking countries for its next edition. Non-fictional formats at any stage of development are welcome. During 3-11 May up to 45 selected project teams will meet around 250 committed partners from production, broadcasting, distribution and sales during pitch events, roundtables and one-to-one meetings.

VdR–Industry will take place during the 54th edition of Visions du Réel from April 23 to 27. This year Benelux will be the focus of the "Switzerland Meets..." programme, running 23/24 April. The Documentary & Audiovisual Forum, a think tank and discussion ground for the national industry, will be held on Sunday 23 April. The 54th edition of Visions du Réel will run April 21-30 in Nyon, Switzerland.

Five feature docs and five short docs have advanced to the final round of Oscar voting. The winners will be announced March 12 during 95th Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. This year, 144 documentary features and 98 shorts were eligible for consideration.

Less about protestors on the streets and more about the personal and emotional impact of fighting against a brutal regime, Syrian filmmaker/journalist/campaigner Lina’s film is a moving and thoughtful look into how protests are planned, how friendships are challenged and how fear of violence is a terrible constant.

Thomas Jackson’s film about the struggle for the Sámi culture also won Best Original Score. The Best Sound Design award went to Ted Krotkiewski  for the doc All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars, directed by Jennifer Rainsford, while yet another documentary won for Best Editing, Daughters by Jenifer Malmqvist, edited by Åsa Mossberg  and  Line Schou.

Superpower by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman to world premiere in Berlin. “In a festival that will take place one year after the Russian invasion in Ukraine, it is important to show the film that Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman made under such difficult conditions,” writes the festival. Additionally, Sur l’Adamant by Nicolas Philibert is selected for Main Competition.