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dok.incubator presents 8 documentaries within regional programme

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Over the coming months, the Prague-based dok.incubator rough-cut programme will workshop eight documentary projects from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, soon to be released to international audiences. These will be presented in parallel with the eight International projects, previously announced.
Acid Cannes/Critics Week/Quinzaine doc selections - Business Doc Europe

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Acid will screen world premieres of Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk, and Namir Abdel Messeeh’s second feature doc Life After Siham, as well as the French premiere of Sylvain George’s Obscure Night – Ain’t I A Child? The Critics Week sidebar for first and second features will include a sole doc, Imago by Déni Oumar Pitsaev, as will Directors Fortnight, which has selected the Ukrainian feature doc Militantropos by Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith and Simon Mozgovyi.
Copan and Writing Hawa take top prizes at It’s All True

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

É Tudo Verdade / It’s All True – International Documentary Festival, one of Latin America’s core non-fiction film events, this weekend announced the winners of its 30th anniversary edition which closed April 13. Directed by Carine Wallauer, Copanwon the Brazilian Feature and Medium-Length Film Competition, receiving both a R$20,000 cash prize (approx. €3,000) and the It’s All True Trophy.
VdR 2025: The Prince of Nanawa and The Vanishing Point win top awards

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Clarisa Navas’ The Prince of Nanawa and Bani Khoshnoudi’s The Vanishing Point were awarded Visions du Réel’s two main international competitions prizes during the festival’s April 12 closing ceremony. Argentinian director Navas won the Grand Prize in the International Feature Film Competition with The Prince of Nanawa, an expansive film that follows the transformations of Ángel over 10 years, from childhood to adulthood, on the border between Argentina and Paraguay.
VdR-Pitching 2025: Salut Robert by Laura Israel

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

For almost half a century, legendary New York photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank diligently captured his own life on film and video. But the footage was never seen, because for years it sat in the basement of his New York apartment, collecting dust. Until now.
Visions du Réel WiP presentation: Memory by Vladlena Sandu

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Vladlena Sandu’s dramatic and poetic hybrid film Memory tells a deeply personal story of life during the Chechen war as neighbours are murdered, her family targeted, andthe capital Grozny turned into a battlefield. It also seeks an answer to a fundamental question. How can the cycle of violence – that shapes the lives of children and is inevitably passed to the next generation – be broken?
DOK.fest München All-Inclusive Award; Industry news

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

On May 10, DOK.fest München will present the new All-Inclusive Award which will honour documentary film productions in which filmmakers with disabilities play a leading role. The first winner is announced as Patrice: The Movie, by US director Ted Passon, which will have its German premiere May 10 at DOK.fest Munich. The prize is valued at 5,000 euros and is donated by the Werksviertel-Mitte Stiftung München.
Visions du Réel: VdR–Industry awards 2025 - Business Doc Europe

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

The 23rd VdR–Industry programme concluded April 9 with an award ceremony during which CHF 80,000 of prizes were distributed to 13 projects at the 2025. These included the second presentation of the prestigious Eurimages Co-production Development Award, a €20,000 cash prize, as well as the CHF 10,000 prize from visions sud est, Switzerland’s national fund designed to encourage independent film production in countries with low production capacity.
UN Perception Change Award to German doc The Family Approach

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Given annually during Visions du Réel to a film that highlights current issues shaping the future world, The UN Perception Change Award was presented April 9 to Britta Strampe (Bandenfilm) producer of Daniel Abma’s The Family Approach. The film, which also won the ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness at DOK Leipzig 2024, focuses on the lives of five teenagers who live together and the social workers who look after them.
DocsBarcelona 2025 delves into the “fragilities of Europe”

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Faced with “the multiple fragilities that threaten Europe,” the programme of DocBarcelona 2025 “delves into the old continent’s past to consider its present and future with a section dedicated to the archive, where documentary filmmakers explore the dark folds of the 20th century with found footage,” organises write.