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36 projects from 33 countries selected from 300+ submissions to 16th DOK Co-Pro Market, running 26-27 October.

José Barahona’s Nheengatu - The Language of the Amazon to open, Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes to close the festival, plus projects for Nebulae and Arché industry initiatives revealed.

Six teams each to receive a $5,000 post-production grant and participate in a month-long online editing lab, following the program’s call for socially/politically/culturally relevant stories from American Northeast and Puerto Rican storytellers.

IDFA Project Awards handed to Some Women (Singapore) and Breaking the Cycle (Thailand) at recent Docs by the Sea and to The Ship from the Sea, a co-production between Mozambique, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain, at Durban Filmart.

Presentations of three new documentary projects and 9 works-in-progress plus screenings of 5 new and recent doc features at annual showcase of creative output from Flanders and Brussels, 5-31 October 2020.

£10,000 Assembly Feature Development Funding Award to Gabriela Pena for Here, the Silence is Heard. Open City Award for Authored Feature Film to Belgian trio Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere for Victoria.

September 11 2020: European Film Academy and Berlin International Film Festival call for “the immediate and unconditional release” of writer, human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is desperately ill in a Tehran jail where she has been incarcerated since June 2018.

Swiss-based doc sales agency announces both the company rebrand and the recent pick-up of Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed’s Purple Sea.

Best Documentary Project Award valued at 3000 euros to be spent on an international trailer. Eight Finnish doc projects to compete.

October and December deadlines for films, November and December deadlines for Pitching du Réel, Docs in Progress and Rough Cut Lab industry events. Festival to run 16 to 24 April 2021.