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The first fully in-person edition since 2019 will welcome audiences to London’s Bertha DocHouse, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Close-Up Cinema, Curzon Soho, Genesis Cinema, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LUX, Tate Modern and the Festival Hub. Running 7-13 September, this year opens with It Is Night In America by Ana Vaz, and closes with Tsuchimoto Noriaki’s masterpiece The Shiranui Sea (1975).

Laura Poitras and Nan Goldin were in fiery form when talking to the international press in Venice on September 3 before the world-premiere of All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. The film, handled by Altitude Film Sales, looks at the part that artist Nan Goldin played in “taking down” the billionaire Sackler family who made their fortune through pharmaceuticals.

Eight feature documentaries and nine doc projects to be presented between 21-23 September during Finnish Film Affair, the industry event of Helsinki International Film Festival. The three-day event will welcome execs from industry giants such as Netflix, TrustNordisk, and Cannes, Venice, and Berlinale film festivals. In co-operation with German Films, German producers interested in co-productions will also journey to Finland.

Comprising four themed sections including an International Competition, as well as a comprehensive (and inaugural) Industry Days programme, the Sarajevo-based fest will run 9-13 September. “Aware of the fact that peace as the highest ideal is eluding mankind again, we found inspiration and faith in a better tomorrow in authentic and touching human stories that return the focus to the ordinary man, providing us with an insight into his fear, hope, regret – and cry for peace,” write organisers.

Weaving striking archival footage with new performance material featuring actress Alba Rohrwacher, The March on Rome provides the perfect platform for Cousins to ruminate on the dark times of Mussolini’s rule and how fascism still lurks in the shadows. World-premiering Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival it stands out thanks to judicious use of the powerful stock footage and photos provided by the Luce Archives.

The 2022 IDA Screening Series will showcase 43 feature-length documentary films that are eligible for consideration for the upcoming Academy Awards; 20 films to be screened both in-person and online, and 34 will be available for virtual viewing only. The screening program runs Sept 9 to Nov 23. Ten projects selected for the 2022 Awards Campaign Access Initiative (ACAI).

Organisers of the Budapest-based human rights festival invite docmakers, aspiring film critics and students to apply for the 7th DocLab Workshop, the inaugural Film Critics Workshop and this year’s Student Jury. The 19th edition of the documentary film festival will take place 8-20 November 2022.

The European Film Academy has revealed the 13 feature-length documentary films, as chosen by a committee comprising a diverse range of European experts, that have been recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2022. The European Film Awards will be presented on 10 December in Reykjavík.

Aida Begić, Dana Budisavljević, Fatma Riahi, Phil Grabsky and Ensar Altay will all serve on the international jury of the fifth edition of AJB DOC Film Festival, which will be held in Sarajevo from September 9 to 13. The five-member jury will select the best film of the AJB DOC Festival Competition Programme and award the AJB DOC Main Award.

At the end of the 13th MakeDox Creative Documentary Festival which ran 18 to 25 August as an in-person event in Skopje, North Macedonia, five awards (plus Special Mentions) were handed out. Feature doc awards went to Natasa Urban’s The Eclipse, A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont and Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner. All awards…