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Álvarez’s observational black-and-white film intimately documents the intense sessions of a reading group who meet in a Buenos Aires café.

Adventurous new Swiss doc sales outfit Lightdox has added a new football hooligan title to a slate that already includes 5 IDFA titles and one in Docs for Sale. IDFA titles include Arica, which world prems in Frontlight, and Lina Soualem’s Their Algeria (in Best of Fests).

When lockdown began, industry misgivings were shared at newsreel archive British Pathé, which holds huge amounts of film material from 1896, the very start of cinema, to the early 1980s. Would anyone pay to license this material during such a difficult period? The answer was a resounding ‘yes’.

Gorbachev. Heaven shows a vulnerable, yet proud and quietly cunning old man, stuck in time, with nothing to lose.

The dream to make a sleepy French village a Mecca for auteur documentary makes for an intriguing and ultimately enthralling story.

A documentary about the great mass of contradictions that is Eurovision was always going to be a winner. But lob in an Icelandic grenade in the form of the BDSM-wearing anti-capitalist band Hatari who sing of hate, debauchery and the purposelessness of life, and you’ve got gold dust. A Song Called Hate director Anna Hildur talks to Business Doc Europe.

“As you know, Danish documentary makers tend to travel out into the world. They were challenged by the whole situation,” Cecilia Lidin, doc consultant at the Danish Film Institute, observes of how the local doc community reacted earlier this year when, thanks to the Corona lockdown, their wings were suddenly clipped.

The 2020 Nordic talents attending online IDFAcademy talk to Business Doc Europe about the projects they will be pitching to, and discussing this year with, the great and the good of the international documentary community.

An impressively structured film rich in terms of beautifully composed images which brings an understated anger about what has befallen its central character.

Chiledoc is out in force November 19 during IDFA Industry, as a delegation of doccers present a selection of upcoming features. IDFA also presents two Chilean world-premieres in 2020. The Sky Is Red plays in First Appearance while Arica is selected for Frontlight.