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DOK Leipzig “emphasises its long-term connection to Eastern Europe” with a programme of current feature-length films offering insights into life in the region’s countries. This year’s retrospective will focus on docs by female filmmakers from the GDR while this year’s homage is dedicated to renowned Serbian documentary filmmaker Mila Turajlić. Emphasis placed on in-person Festival and Industry presentation and attendance in 2022.

With total doc support for this round just short of €1m, one of the recipients is Lynx Man, directed by Juha Suonpää and pitched at Nordisk Panorama Forum 2021. Other projects include a doc about the repatriation of the Sámi ancestral heritage from museums (Homecoming) and a non-linear narrative of Tom of Finland’s house in Los Angeles (Tom House the VR Experience).

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated animated film (also Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner in the World Cinema Documentary) tells the story of his childhood friend’s extraordinary physical and emotional journey from Afghanistan to finally building a new home in Denmark. The film was produced by Final Cut for Real.

World broadcast and streaming rights for Pleistocene Park have been acquired by VICE World News for Season 3 of its spotlight documentary series, The Short List with Suroosh Alvi. The film, selected in 2022 for CPH:DOX, Hot Docs and Thessaloniki is described as a captivating and entertaining look at Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov’s attempt to rewild a remote corner of Siberia.

CPH:DOX is open for film submissions for next year's festival which takes place from March 15-26 2023. Two deadlines: September 1 and December 1 respectively. Final deadline also this week (June 16) for the CPH:LAB international talent development programme. The festival is also inviting internship applications from students wanting to be part of CPH:DOX 2023.

Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, presents in October a rare and complete retrospective of the Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach, one of the protagonists of Brazilian Marginal Cinema. “This important film movement, along with Cinema Novo, originated in the 60s from São Paulo’s slum Boca De Lixo, at the height of the military dictatorship’s repression, as a response to the instability experienced in the country,” writes the festival.

Submission deadline of August 1 for Forum and DocLab Forum. Deadline for Docs for Sale is September 8. This year, IDFA Industry events will be presented in a new venue: Felix Meritis, located in Amsterdam’s Jordaan district. The new location will house both IDFA Forum and Docs for Sale, as well as their various sections and services, under the same roof for the first time.

Film London announced 8 June a new London Screenings partnership with Doc Society, with Head of Film Shanida Scotland to showcase a special presentation of Doc Soc titles. In addition, Mia Bays, Director of the BFI Film Fund, will present BFI’s Work in Progress showcase. For the first time, there will also be a specific doc strand in the London Screenings Breakthrough section.

Fleming will lead the impact team on key social impact entertainment campaigns for new film releases and brands, including Tribeca titles Battleground (in partnership with Red Owl Pictures) and Fashion Reimagined. Reporting to Sarah Mosses, Founder and CEO of Together Films, “the role feeds into Together Films growth ambitions as they expand to become the leading social impact agency in the UK and US,” the company writes.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica premiered in the 2022 edition of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. The film is made by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, directors of Leviathan. The producers are Norte Productions, CG Cinema, Rita Productions and the Sensory Ethnography Lab.