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Summer Nights by Ohad Milstein wins Best Israeli Film, Sabaya by Hogir Hirori takes home Best International Film Award. Docaviv kicked off July 1 in a hybrid format and was set to run through July 10, but due to the high demand for online screenings the festival has extended its digital programme until July 31.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins updates his expansive 15-part series The Story of Film: An Odyssey some 10 years on, examining the impacts, themes and innovations in cinema that have helped define the highly eventful period between 2010 and 2021.

Canadian Cinema - Reignited partnership announced between Telefilm Canada, Hot Docs, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The Fund provides in-kind grants valued at €20,000 for visual and sound post-production of documentary and hybrid films at production or post-production stage. The in-kind grant(s) can be accessed for doc and hybrid films with a length 15 minutes+ and at production or post-production stage. The completed film will premiere at the Ji.hlava IDFF.

Feature-length Competition: Golden Alexander to Magaluf Ghost Town by Miguel Ángel Blanca, Special Jury Award to Luchadoras by Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim. In Newcomers Competition: Golden Alexander Dimitri Eipides Award to On the Other Side by Iván Guarnizo. Τhe Special Jury Award given to Sediments by Adrián Silvestre.

Philippa Kowarsky’s sales outfit Cinephil will hit the Cannes market this week with several new docs on its slate, among them the multi-director A Jewish Life, described as a companion piece to the company’s award-winning A German Life (2016), and Adi Arbel’s Grossman, a TV doc about the revered Israeli writer David Grossman.

Jonathan Demme, the director of The Silence Of The Lambs as well as a host of award-winning documentaries, died over four years ago, in April 2017. Nonetheless, the last film he was working on, Right To Return is still being finished, and is one of many represented in the Cannes market this week by Reservoir Docs’ Anais Clanet, who talks to Business Doc Europe.

Five Czech majority documentaries and one Serbian doc selected across Crystal Globe and East of West competitions, as well as Special Screenings. The 55th edition of the leading Czech festival to run August 20-28.

The Thessaloniki Doc Fest professional prizes were handed out June 30. Agora Docs continues its initiatives through to July 4. Fourteen projects participated in Thessaloniki Pitching Forum while ten projects from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region were selected for Agora Docs in Progress.

Winners in the Doc Alliance feature and short film categories to be announced at the Doc Day Lunch of the Marché du Film in Cannes on Tuesday July 13. Doc Alliance is a network of 7 of the most influential European documentary film festivals.