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At 217 minutes the film may be very long, which may limit screen exposure, but that should take nothing away from its warmth, compassion and sensitivity in boldly tackling a highly complex subject.

One of the companies returning to the second edition of EFM Archive Day is British Pathé. The company’s Simon Witter underlines to Business Doc Europe the increasing demand for archive from the international filmmaking community.

A gripping, important and impressively powerful documentary about the fight for liberation and female emancipation in Egypt in 2021.

Award-winning Elizabeth Klinck talks EFM Archive Day 2021, working during the pandemic and a career banging the drum for the increasingly essential archive sector.

Acknowledging the influence of his mentor Roberto Minervini, director Carlos Alfonso Corral imbues his feature debut on homeless people at the US-Mexican border with remarkable immediacy and respect, within a highly stylized structure.

A strikingly mounted, illuminating and gently powerful film portrait of James Morrison, a truly great Scottish landscape artist, who died in 2020.

An intriguing personal portrait of artist and mother Poly Styrene, UK’s first woman of colour to front a major rock band, co-directed by daughter Celeste Bell and Paul Sng.

Taking place during the 25th Ji.hlava IDFF (October 26-31), the 18th East Silver doc market will again support producers and distributors from Central and East Europe. Each year, approx 300 films from more than 29 countries are selected. The deadlines for submissions are March 31, May 31 and July 31 respectively.

Austrian doc specialists Autlook Film Sales’ CEO Salma Abdalla is in upbeat mood of the eve of the Berlin European Film Market. She autlines why to Business Doc Europe.

Copenhagen-based sales company LevelK has released the trailer for their documentary The Red Ring, about the global epidemic of tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease, which will screen at EFM.