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How do you measure the impact of a horrific crime on a nation? And, more specifically, how does a crime involving children affect their peers? The End of Innocence is a haunting and gripping reconstruction of the extensively covered case of Marc Dutroux, who in the 1990s triggered a collective Belgian trauma, but who also united a divided nation.

Talents Sarajevo, the prestigious programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival founded in collaboration with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talents, is inviting applications for its 16th edition. This year the programme will be presented under the title Dis/Content. The closing date for applications is May 31.

A compassionate yet deeply harrowing delve into the important work done by the Croatian empowerment programme ‘I Am Much More Than My Trauma’ which helps women who were raped and traumatised during the Croatian War of Independence. Vedrana Pribacic’s film focusses on a handful of women taking part throughout the programme’s two-year duration.

Evelien Spreitzer is disabled and in a wheelchair. Her sexuality has always taken a back seat, but now she’s on a quest. A quest which she shares with honesty and intimacy. Screening in Hot Docs World Showcase, the resulting film is an inspiring portrait of self-discovery, despite doubts and vulnerabilities, with starring roles for sex toys and a professional sex carer.

A Bright Yellow Films, Samson Films and Groove International production, The Ghost of Richard Harris, directed by Adrian Sibley, concerns the late actor, poet, lover and singer whose prodigious career was overshadowed by a reputation for drinking and riotous behaviour earning him the epithet “hell raiser.”

The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) has called on Turkish authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release film producer Çiğdem Mater. The main accusation against Çiğdem is that she was trying to raise financing for a documentary project about the Gezi Park movement – a film which was never made.

A fascinating and enthralling film that begins as a story of momentous artistic discovery before spiralling into heated examination of the power of the cultural establishment. Acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Nils Gaup’s documentary debut, an International Premiere at Hot Docs, may raise questions and provoke debate but ultimately (and perhaps most importantly) it helps celebrate an artistic talent long thought forgotten, and one that has been hitherto dismissed.

Three film projects engaging international stories of migration from unique perspectives to receive mentorship, distribution consultation and $25,000 in grant support. The Lab, funded by Kalliopeia Foundation, marks the first partnership between Emergence Magazine and IF/Then Shorts, an initiative of Field of Vision.

The 8th edition of Arché - Space for Thinking and Creative Development will take place October 12-20 during the 20th Doclisboa International Film Festival, running 6-16 October. The call is out for film projects in development. Arché also includes project development workshops with Brazilian director Sergio Oksman and Spanish editor/filmmaker Virginia García del Pino.

In My Imaginary Country Chilean Patricio Guzmán documents the recent history of his country, while Riposte Féministe by French feature debutants Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon focuses on the ‘colleur.euses’ movement bringing the high level of femicides in France to the attention of the public. They join the previously announced Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind by Ethan Coen and Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction.