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Midnight June 30 is the deadline for submission of films and Nebulae projects for 19th Doclisboa (21-31 October), while FIPADOC (17-23 January 2022) opens its film registrations, with a deadline of 22 October.

CPH:DOX has declared itself open for film submissions for next year's festival which runs March 23 -April 3 2022. Deadlines are September 1 for finished films, and December 1 for films finished after the first deadline. Upcoming submissions deadline of July 6 for CPH:LAB, the festival’s talent development programme.

1500 industry professionals from 58 countries (including 380 decision-makers) and 891 companies (68% of which were beyond French borders) took part in the 32nd Sunny Side of the Doc online. Meanwhile, the 5th edition of PiXii Festival was held across La Rochelle, while offering industry professionals a digital and physical programme. All winners.

110 films from 39 films selected from 2648 film submissions. 43 world and 4 international premieres across the FID Marseille (19-25 July) competitions. Opening film is Mano a Mano (with lyrical text by Eric Cantona). “Although the festival’s length and scope were reduced last year, for this 32nd edition, we are back at almost full sail!” says festival chief Jean-Pierre Rehm.

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas will world premiere in Cannes Classics section in 2021. In the film, director Cousins joins Thomas on an intimate road trip from London to the Cannes Film Festival – an annual pilgrimage that Thomas has taken for the last 40 years.

IDF and DAE call for “ongoing support for pitching events and markets in these smaller countries…to showcase and celebrate European storytelling in all its diversity, while also allowing the same support and ‘home court advantage’ to be accessible to CEE film professionals.” Bring decision-making structure to the region, the report further advises.

Maria Speth’s Mr Bachmann and His Class wins 2021 inaugural Berlinale Competition Audience Award while The Panorama Audience Award goes to The Last Forest (Brazil) by Luiz Bolognesi. For the Competition Audience Award at total of 8,498 ballots were counted while 5,658 ballots were counted to determine the winner of the Panorama Award.

After yesterday’s unveiling of Polish projects at Sunny Side’s Producers Meet Producers, today sees a presentation of Poland’s offer to the international doc community as a potential co-production partner. Polish Docs' Barbara Orlicz‐Szczypuła and Katarzyna Wilk explain more to Business Doc Europe.

The new market service will “serve as a bespoke platform for fostering international co-production, providing a necessary space for sustaining this collaborative model of realizing documentary projects,” say IDFA organisers.

Sunny Side will present a June 23 case study of 8 BILLION, developed by Waterbear and described as “an exciting multi-media initiative and online community for shared visions, hopes and beliefs joining forces to defend Planet Earth.” Waterbear answers questions on the project posed by Business Doc Europe.