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Using as its creative starting point an iconic early 70s photograph by acclaimed photographer Don McCullin of a youngster running along a bleak Liverpool street, this engaging documentary delves into the community who live in that same area today.

International Documentary Competition winner named as Far Eastern Golgotha while Golden Hobby-Horse went to Walk with Angels during the Krakow FF awards ceremony June 5. The audience award was granted to Polański, Horowitz. Hometown. Plus all Industry awards.

Six new doc projects supported through the IDFA Bertha Fund Europe – International Co-production funding scheme. Each will receive €40,000 in addition to tailored support through IDFA's Filmmaker Support department and year-round opportunities for connecting with IDFA’s professional network.

Docaviv, taking place in Tel Aviv 1 - 10 July, will present a total of 116 documentaries, of which 31 are world premieres (28 Israeli films, 3 international titles). The programme will “reflect the times - by showing protests and calls for change, struggles for freedom of speech, basic liberties, and human rights,” says Artistic Director, Karin Rywkind Segal.

After the documentary Arica unveiled the effects of toxic waste on the people of Arica (Chile) after Swedish toxic waste was dumped there over 30 years ago, United Nations Human Rights Council has advised the Swedish Government that “urgent measures should be taken to repatriate the hazardous wastes…and/or ensure the disposal of the hazardous wastes in an environmentally sound manner.”

A delightful and gently profound meditation on the deep-rooted relationship between nature and humanity, Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s beautiful and gentle film resonates with sound, music, voices and history.

A powerful and compelling doc that plays like a drama feature at times, No Hero At All is a striking real-life story of a young disabled Polish man with a petty criminal past who is also a promising alpine skier potentially good enough to make the Paralympics.

Memories both welcome and traumatic are at the moving and involving heart of a film that charts the emotional return of Roman Polański and Ryszard Horowitz to the streets of Krakow that they knew so well as children.

The Greek market, running June 25 - July 4 will present “a series of actions,” aiming to strengthen documentary filmmaking in the wider geographical region, presenting new projects within its Forum, Docs in Progress and Agora Labs programmes, as well as shining the spotlight on the Serbian doc industry.

Institute of Documentary Film’s three-stage Ex Oriente Film training programme is focused on the development and funding of creative documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. The first workshop will be presented online during the upcoming Sunny Side of the Doc.