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The Best Documentary Feature prize went to Hacking Hate by Simon Klose (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) while the Documentary Feature Best Cinematography and Best Editing Awards went to Ezra Wolfinger for Shelf Life (United States) and Rupert Houseman for Antidote (United Kingdom) respectively. The Albert Maysles Award for Best New Doc went to Debra Aroko and Nicole Gormley for their Searching for Amani (Kenya).

Relentless Memory, a film about indigenous peoples and human rights, world premieres in International Competition. Piropolis, telling the story of a firefighting company fighting simultaneous devastating fires in Chile, has its European premiere. Meanwhile in MeetMarket, A Troop of Bears is presented. The doc project tells the story of the encounter between the son of a disappeared detainee and the man who betrayed him during the Chilean military dictatorship.

The documentary pitching has finalized the project selection for its 28th edition, scheduled to take place in Riga 1-6 September 2024. The selection includes 22 projects currently in development and production, as well as four projects at post-production stage within the forum's Coming Soon session.

50 films make up the competition sections (International, French, First Film, Flash and Cine+) of the 35th edition of FIDMarseille. Of these, 42 are World Premieres, 5 are International Premieres and 3 are French Premieres. The festival opens June 25 with Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes and closes June 30 with Alain Guiraudie’s Miséricorde.

The winners of the Doc Alliance Awards 2024 were announced June 6 at the award ceremony of Docudays UA in Kyiv. The prize for the Best Feature Film, endowed with 5,000 euros, went to The Landscape and the Fury by Nicole Vögele. Crushed by Camille Vigny received the Doc Alliance Award for Best Short Film, endowed with 3,000 EUR. Both awarded films were the nominations of Visions du Réel.

The feature doc, directed by Jayson McNamara and Andrea Tortonese, concerns the life of the esteemed Argentinian activist and feminist icon Norita Cortiñas. Fonda joins fellow executive producers, Oscar® winner Gustavo Santaolalla and author/activist Naomi Klein. “It is an honour to have Jane’s support and backing,” says director Jayson McNamara. “As a respected artist across generations, she is the ideal person to be bringing light to the story of an activist such as Norita.”

Documentary Competition presents a dozen US and international doc features while the Docs In Spotlight section presents a further 26 non-fiction features. “Storytelling possesses a remarkable ability to bring us together, offering hope in these challenging times. We eagerly anticipate engaging with audiences on difficult yet timely subjects,” says co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. The New York celebration of film runs to June 16.

Eight filmmakers and executives will form the first board of trustees of the Documentary Film Council (DFC), the new national membership organisation designed to represent the interests of the sector in the UK. The trustees were elected on a 58.2% turnout, and will formally take over from the interim board at Sheffield DocFest at the DFC’s annual Open Assembly and AGM on Saturday June 15.

The Golden Horn for Best Film was given to Askold Kurov and Anonymous 1 for Of Caravan and the Dogs (Germany). The Silver Horn for Highest Artistic Merit went to Tomasz Wolski for A Year in the Life of the Country (Poland). The Silver Horn for Best Film on Social Issues was won by Oksana Karpovych for Intercepted (Canada, France, Ukraine). The KFF Recommendation to the European Film Award (Doc) is Silent Trees by Agnieszka Zwiefka (Poland).

The Industry awards of Krakow 2024 were handed out May 31 within the Docs to Start and Docs to Go categories, for Polish and Ukrainian documentary projects in development and in post-production respectively. KFF Industry runs May 27 to June 1. The 64th Krakow Film Festival runs to 2 June in Kraków, and across Poland on the KFF VOD online streaming platform between 31 May and 16 June 2024.