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Are the gatekeepers of the international feature doc sector brave and inclusive enough?
“We’re ready for the ‘giving up space’ phase,” says one producer.
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Oscars international feature race: the European contenders
This year, 41 countries from Europe have entered the international feature film race.
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“We cannot have another year like this,” say doc sales agents at IDFA
Cautious distributors, slimmed-down festivals and dwindling funders are cause for concern.
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Oeke Hoogendijk explains how she convinced her agoraphobic mother to feature in ‘Housewitz’
The Dutch documentary director is debuting two very different films at IDFA.
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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival opens with exemption from any new Covid measures
The festival has a new green focus and increased prize money
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My Screen Life: Estonian film head Edith Sepp on her love of yoga, jazz and her ambition to become a film editor
The Estonian Film Institute CEO reveals her favourite films, proudest moment and why Christopher Nolan should direct her biopic.
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Rising Icelandic filmmaker Tinna Hrafnsdóttir talks about her directorial debut ‘Quake’
Icelandic psychological mystery is premiering at Estonia’s Black Nights Film Festival.
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Why the Black Nights Discovery Campus is the cornerstone of Tallinn festival’s industry focus
The new talent initative is designed to give regional talent an international boost.
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Atlas Workshops to showcase a new generation of Moroccan filmmakers
2022 looks set to be a promising year for Moroccan cinema.
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Erige Sehiri’s ‘Fig Trees’ promises rare snapshot of Tunisia’s rural youth
The fiction feature captures contemporary Tunisian society through the prism of teenage female fig pickers.
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Why Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is urgently seeking development funds for ‘The Chattering of Teeth’
Project is Mosese’s second feature after award-winning This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.
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Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops poised to ride Arab, African indie cinema wave
The Workshops are running online from November 22-25.
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How are producers making documentaries with real impact without preaching and turning off audiences?
Producers need to balance supporting a filmmaker’s vision while raising funding and finding an audience.
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IDFA Bertha Fund head: “Whenever there is a rise in applications, it comes from Latin America”
Isabel Arrate Fernandez, head of the Bertha Fund, on why applications doubled in 2020.
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Louis Hothothot on how IDFA opening film ‘Four Journeys’ brought him back to his family
The film tells the story off how China-born Hothothot was an illicit second child during China’s one-child era.
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Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley talks date changes, fainting audience members
Moodley discussed staging this year’s event, the most talked about films and the pros and cons of the on-demand elements.
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New talent focus: ‘Carajita’ directors Ulises Porra and Silvina Schnicer
The Spanish and Argentinian filmmaking duo on how they pressed reset on their San Sebastian favourite Carajita.
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My Screen Life: ReFrame's Andria Wilson Mirza on why being allowed to fail is part of the fight for equality
The equalities expert and festival lover on her proudest moment and how films were her comfort growing up.
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Rising Spanish director David Pantaleón on his ode to anti-masculinity ‘Our Father’
Pantaleón’s debut feature is screening at the Seville European Film Festival this week.
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Liliana Torres talks drawing on her own real-life heartbreak for docu-drama ‘What Went Wrong?’
‘What Went Wrong?’ is making its debut at the Seville European Film Festival this week.