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Miecia is the “Queen of Łeba”, a seaside resort at the Baltic Sea, the Sea, so well known for a Dane, who has tasted lots of smoked fish on the Island of Bornholm. Miecia has had her smokehouse for 40…

Co-director: Andrew Siedenburg. Allow me first to take a shortcut to the precise and inviting synopsis provided by IDFA, where the film in November was selected for the Luminous section, after that I give you a personal view on the…

Amsterdam, Thursday November 20, 2025A Fox Under a Pink Moon wins Best Film in the International Competition and Past Future Continuous wins Best Film in the Envision Competition This evening, the winners of IDFA’s 38th edition competition programs were officially announced at the Awards Ceremony held at…

Not only it was a comeback for me to Ji.hlava, but it was also a return to good old times. In many ways. A quiet city (or town) with old style shops, different prices than the ones in big cities,…

The award-winning films of the 68th edition of DOK Leipzig have been announced. The seven Golden and two Silver Doves as well as various Partnership Awards were presented at the Schaubühne Lindenfels in Leipzig on Saturday. In the International Competition Documentary…

Eleven industry awards were presented today to the most promising projects participating in the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2025. In total, fifty-five projects from Europe, United States and East & Southeast Asia were presented at the Forum. The projects in development, production and…

There were many new talents at the Baltic Sea Docs – and there were filmmakers, who have been awarded many times for their works. Audrius Stonys is one of them. He was a new talent, when the Baltic Sea Docs…

There is hope! That was my reaction this morning at the first round of pitching at the 29th Baltic Sea Docs in Riga. I thought so when I met the Hungarian film project “Kind of Adults” by Rita Balogh and…

After a long first day of the Baltic Sea Docs, the tutors were invited for dinner on top of Riga. Two of the tutors come from Georgia and Ukraine: Salomé Jashi and Darya Bassel. Both of them play an important…

The 29th edition of Baltic Sea Docs, the long-running documentary co-production forum in Riga, is set to run from 31 August to 5 September. The forum will feature 26 documentary projects within its industry programme, alongside film screenings for audiences…

Jury Special Award at the Sarajevo FF. And a text taken from the press kit of the best publicist I know, Greek Dimitra Kouzi: “Bulgarian queer artist and songwriter Ivo Dimchev transforms personal and social hardship into provocative public and…

PRESS RELEASESarajevo, August 19, 2025 DOCU TALENT AWARDS 2025 WENT TO A SONG WITHOUT HOME, FLYING COWS, AND LAND OF FIRE EMERGING PRODUCERS 2026 AND RECIPIENTS OF JI.HLAVA /JB FILMS SUPPORT WERE ANNOUNCED Seven outstanding documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe,…

Producer Adnan Ćuhara. Shown, world premiere August 16 at Sarajevo Film Festival. I quote Sarajevo Times (March 2 2025), where the film crew gives this congratulatory note the 1st of March, to the independence day of Bosnia and Herzegovina: “The…

There is a short text at the beginning of the film bringing us to the location: “… a network of rural communities (that) provides shelter to individuals struggling with addiction and mental health issues”. A former abuser is running the…

The 22nd Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has announced its winners. However, Docudays UA does not end there: the winning films can be watched during the screening day 13 June. Some recordings of the festival discussions will…

How to pitch your upcoming documentary here and now? And how to successfully promote it once it’s completed? On June 11 and 12, the DOCU/PRO platform will host events that will help industry-accredited participants explore the tools of development, effective pitching,…

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge“, one of many quotes from Albert Einstein that I was thinking of while watching this well made originally thought documentary from Ukraine. Take a…

Gosh, what a film, what a woman, a sad comedy, but also a documentary with a message… Let me give you the precise logline from the website of the director’s company: “Carmen’s life has always been a Quixotesque comedy. Living…

Tomorrow will be the final day of a training week in Baku in Azerbaijan arranged by The Azerbaijan Union of Film-makers (AUF). With filmmaker Afaq Yusifli as the workshop leader, taking care of everything, the perfect organizer behind this project…

“Turning pain into happiness” is a key sentence in the film that deals with a Gaza, before it was totally destroyed after October 7 2023 and the consequent events. The pain of the director Areeb, Palestinian living in the US,…

Wolski pitched “The Big Chief” in Sarajevo last August. During a workshop at ZagrebDox he told me that the film was to have its premiere at Visions du Réel in Nyon. It had, the other day. He sent me a…

Barcelona, April 8, 2025 · The Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival DocsBarcelona will hold its twenty-eighth edition from May 8 to 18 at the CCCB, the Renoir and Phenomena cinemas, and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the festival’s regular venues, in addition to Casa Montjuïc and Espai Texas.…

I was invited to the premiere by Marie (Schmidt-Olesen), who with her company Northern Soul produced first time long documentary of Camilla Arlien, who has graduated from the film school in Copenhagen. I could not attend and later on in…

6.4.2025. The Big Stamp went to Mr. Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein and Pasha Talankin in International Competition and My Dad’s Lessons by Dalija Dozet in Regional Competition. The Little Stamp for best short film went to Arshia Shakiba…

Best International Film:Mr. Nobody against Putin (Denmark, Czech Republic) (PHOTO)Directed by David Borenstein, Pasha TalankinProduced by made in copenhagenCoproduced by PINK in association with BBC Storyville, DR, ZDF/ARTESupported by the Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, FilmFyn, Fritt…

Second time I saw this film. Same reaction. Emotional reaction. A mother decides to go to war to fight for her country. And first and foremost for the future of her child with whom she video-communicates during the film and…

Foreword to the festival catalogue: With all the explosions, sirens howling, cries andfights pervading our small endangered planet, all Ican hear is – silence.The silence of intelligence, reason, dialogue and –humanity.The world is dominated by bullies, some new ‘gold’defines the…

The juries have deliberated and the winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2025 have been announced this evening at the festival’s Award Show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The international competition lineup included a total of 71 films in competition, in…

Brilliant film, full of life, observing and arranging, lots of music, the end credits invite you to dance, young people, well read the intro from the catalogue to know where we are in the world: “There is a lot of…