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With 13 films in International Competition (12 from Europe), climate change and its impact on the local landscape is the core theme of the 2020 One World Film Festival (5 – 14 March 2020).

“[We] ask for [his] immediate and unconditional release... and call on festivals around the world, cinemas and all artists to do the same,” the combined statement underlines.

March 1 2020 is the application deadline for projects to attend the industry section of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival, the festival underlined at EFM, February 19 2020.

International theatrical distribution outfit Piece of Magic Entertainment, Cinema Nolita and producer Shani Hinton (Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) have joined forces on the worldwide theatrical release of Christopher André Marks’ upcoming feature doc King Otto.

Incredible Film's It’s Dutch Design, market-premiering at EFM 2020, selected for October’s prestigious Milan Design Film Festival.

9th East Doc Platform unveils its 2020 programme, which includes a Fredrik Gertten masterclass as well as pitches of upcoming documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe.

The film also ushers in a curated programme on the Anthropocene Age, which denotes the period that humankind has been active on the planet.

These include new projects from the Oscar-nominated Laura Nix and Talal Derki, Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie, Sundance winners Jialing Zhang and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and the Venice-winning team of Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski.

Five world prems plus 4 international premieres in International Competition. All are world prems in French competition.

Legendary Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon, avant-garde French-Colombian Laura Huertas Millán and Lauren Greenfield, who chronicles the accumulation of vast wealth, will be in the spotlight at Thessaloniki (5-15 March 2020).