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Child of Dust and Silver big winners of 65th Krakow FF - Business Doc Europe

6 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Child of Dust by Weronika Mliczewska and Silver by Natalia Koniarz were the big winners of the 65thKrakow Film Festival. Child of Dust won the Golden Horn in International Competition and shared the Golden Hobby-Horse in National Competition (with Wojciech Staroń for The Passion of Agnieszka).
IDFA Forum 2025: Changes for November roll-out

6 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

IDFA is edging even closer to its old spiritual home as Forum 2025 moves into the ITA Theatre on the Leidseplein and all industry talks and consultancy sessions relocate to the legendary de Balie. Docs For Sale meanwhile is headed for the Documentary Pavilion in the Vondelpark. “This means that now, everything is really concentrated around the square,” says Head of Industry Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen. Other changes are afoot at Forum (November 16-19).
Krakow FF Industry: Awards of Docs to Go and Docs to Start

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

On May 30, the awards of the 20th Krakow FF Industry were handed out, with the top cash award (the Polish Film Institute Award for a project nearing completion) going to Inner Landscapes directed by Zofia Sawicka. In total, nine Polish and Ukrainian projects were pitched in the advanced Docs to Go Section, while 14 new projects were pitched in the Docs to Start. All awards…DOCS TO GO AWARDS: Five prizes were given for Polish documentary film projects in the post-production phase.
Docs Ireland announces programme for 7th edition - Business Doc Europe

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Docs Ireland returns to Belfast June 23 to 29 for its seventh edition, showcasing “hard-hitting, eye-opening, and life-affirming documentaries from Ireland and around the world,” organisers write. It also features a “robust” industry programme, connecting filmmakers with leading commissioners and film financiers, drawing a host of influential industry representatives to the city. The festival also presents IGNITE-Docs LASAIR a new Irish language Talent development programme.
KFF Docs to Go: Inner Landscapes by Zofia Sawicka

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Produced by Zofia Kujawska and Maciej Kubicki of Polish production company Telemark, Zofia Sawicka’s debut feature observes the lives of folk on a train as it progresses through an empty wilderness. “This film odyssey is a journey beyond time and space — days and seasons change, and an infinite steppe stretches outside the window,” reads the synopsis (in part). “In the cramped train interior, travellers from around the world meet.
KFF Docs to Go: Theater on Main Street - The Ida Kaminska Story by Dawid Szurmiej - Business Doc Europe

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

At Krakow Film Fest Docs to Go, actor/director/producer Dawid Szurmiej presented his project telling the story of the eponymous Polish luminary, the only actress from behind the Iron Curtain to be nominated for an Academy Award, but who was forced into exile at the height of her career as anti-semitic riots swept across Eastern Europe in 1968There is a very strong personal undertow to the project, he revealed. “Both my parents are actors. They worked at the Yiddish Theatre.
KFF Docs to Go: Every Death Diminishes Me by Sergiusz Bażenov

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Ukrainian Sergiusz Bażenov’s feature tells a story that should never have had to be told. It tells of a filmmaker who becomes a military paramedic in a team with a Dutch volunteer. Together, they witness how war changes people — and themselves. “I’m aiming for a more universal message about war itself, and how it transforms people,” the director tells BDE. “I was certainly transformed by it, and I believe that in today’s world, no one is truly safe, that war can reach anyone.
KFF Docs to Go: The Curse by Jakub Jakubik - Business Doc Europe

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

In Jakub Jakubik’s 90-minute project The Curse, set for October 2026 delivery, yet another person has drowned in the river near the synagogue converted into a liquor store. Waldek, a long-time teetotaler, the homeless Marek, and the Polish Jew Dawid must confront what is quickly developing into a curse. “The Curse explores universal themes—guilt, collective memory, and inherited trauma—through a very specific, local story set in a small Polish town.
KFF Docs to Go: The Herd by Mariusz Biernacki

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

In The Herd, 12 men of different ages, professions and life experiences gather for a four-day intensive workshop aimed at uncovering their feelings and confronting their physical and emotional limitations while grappling with the question: What does it mean to be a man in today’s world?”“Anger, fear, shame, sadness, the longing for closeness.
KFF Docs to Go: Maestra by Magda Nabiałczyk

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

When producer Iwona Harris was asked to come on board Magda Nabiałczyk’s documentary about legendary Polish pianist Lidia Grychtołówna, she feared that the project may be a touch derivative. Her fears proved unfounded, however. The director had already been shooting for over a year, and the footage was excellent. “I realised that this is not a factual biopic, but one that tells the story of the power of passion, which is the driving force behind our heroine’s actions,” Harris tells BDE.