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Polish delegation invited to Malmö, plus two doc projects selected for pitch. Ten Polish documentary film producers will have the opportunity to participate in Producers meet Producers. International pitches for Lili, directed by Sylwia Rosak and produced by Katarzyna Kuczyńska (Haka Films) and Joanna Ratajczak’s Trust Me, produced by Stanislaw Zaborowski (Silver Frame).

19th Doclisboa (21-31 October) opens with a double header featuring Landscapes of Resistance by Marta Popivoda and The Earth Is Still Blue When I Get Off Work, by Sérgio Silva. Closing film is The Tale of King Crab by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The festival also welcomes Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Jane by Charlotte and Steve McQueen’s Uprising.

DOK Leipzig’s 2021 film programme will take place entirely in the city’s cinemas, once again placing greater emphasis on film history with the showing of a Retrospective and two Matinees that had to be postponed in 2020. From Retrospectives to Homages, animation art and more, 10 film series for this year's festival have been finalised.

Full live programme to include actress Charlotte Gainsbourg’s directorial debut, the story of LSD populariser Timothy Leary, a unique focus on Romanian experimental cinema and a retrospective of Slovak-Czech ethnographer Karol Plicka. After 6 days of live screenings 26-31 October, a fortnight of online screenings will commence November 1.

Sourced from 36 countries, the 35 projects are in development or at an early stage of production. ‘The selection consists of projects with a great artistic vision that are developed for an international audience, aim for a theatrical release and have the potential for international co-productions,’ say Market organisers.

The fourth edition of the Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC) closed September 14 with an award ceremony held at the Kovači Multimedial Center in Sarajevo. Main Award goes to Wait For Me by Damir Markovina. Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Gosh’s Writing With Fire win the Al Jazeera Balkans Programme Department Jury Award.

24th edition to run 10-20 March 2022. TDF is an Oscars® documentary feature qualifying festival running in parallel with Agora Doc Market, a lively hub for film professionals. Festival has four competition sections: Feature Length Int’l Competition, Newcomers Int’l Comp, >>Film Forward Int’l Competition and VR Int’l Competition. The deadline for submissions is November 30 2021.

Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC) announced that a new industry platform, AJD Industry Days @ AJB DOC, which will be launched during the 2022 festival, and “is intended to become one of the largest and most important funding platforms for documentaries.”

The fourth Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC) opened September 10 in Sarajevo with a screening of Catherine Harte’s Faith and Branko. The festival, comprising 21 documentaries across 4 sections, including the new Smart Doc program which presents docs filmed on mobiles, runs to September 14.

Taking place in hybrid format, the 25th edition of Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (Baltic Sea Docs) brought together filmmakers from the wider Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and Caucasus region. 18 film projects participated this year, representing film studios in 17 countries including Latvia, Poland, Armenia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Georgia, Russia, among others.