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Film Harbour boards ‘The Dialogue Police’ following Gothenburg premiere (exclusive)
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Amsterdam-based sales outfit Film Harbour has snapped up international rights to documentary The Dialogue Police by Swedish filmmaker Susanna Edwards following its premiere last week in Gothenburg’s Nordic Documentary Competition.

The documentary sees Edwards follow a specialised unit of police officers - the Dialogue Police - on their mission to safeguard the right to freedom of speech amid demonstrations, Quran burnings and climate actions in Sweden in 2022. The team, established after the Gothenburg riots of 2021, favours dialogue over force.

Edwards previous credits include Sunshadow and Capturing The Divine. The Dialogue Police will have its international premiere in March in Cph:dox’s Human Rights Competition.
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  • 2/4/2025
  • ScreenDaily
Korea’s Dmz Docs unveils revamped structure, opening with ‘The Eternal Memory’
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Nearly 150 documentaries set to screen at festival in South Korea.

South Korea’s Dmz International Documentary Film Festival (Dmz Docs) has overhauled its programme structure ahead of its 15th edition, which will open with Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory.

A total of 147 documentaries, comprising 83 features and 64 shorts, from 54 countries will be screened at the festival from September 14-21 at cinemas in and around Goyang city, near the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, in Gyeonggi Province.

The programme, which previously included the Global Vision and Dmz Open Cinema sections, have been reorganised into three competition strands: International, Frontier and Korean.
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  • 8/24/2023
  • by Michael Rosser
  • ScreenDaily
Filmmakers and industry execs debate the future role of film academies in Europe
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The European Film Academy hosted a series of conversations in Karlovy Vary.

The current and future role of film academies was the topic of debate at a European Film Academy-hosted event, Academies Open Doors, held this week at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Directors, producers and festival programmers revealed in one panel session what they expect from film academies, and what they would like academies to offer in the future, beyond glitzy award ceremonies.

The panel included Rada Sesic, who heads the documentary section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Slovakian producer and consultant Katarina Tomkova, Italian director Mattia Colombo, whose...
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  • 7/6/2023
  • by Tim Dams
  • ScreenDaily
Academy Open Doors: filmmakers and industry execs debate the future role of film academies in Europe
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Panellists debate the role of academies at European Film Academy-hosted event.

The current and future role of film academies was the topic of debate at a European Film Academy-hosted event, Academy Open Doors, held this week at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Directors, producers and festival programmers revealed in one panel session what they expect from film academies, and what they would like academies to offer in the future, beyond glitzy award ceremonies.

The panel included Rada Sesic, who heads the documentary section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Slovakian producer and consultant Katarina Tomkova, Italian director Mattia Colombo, whose documentary...
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  • 7/6/2023
  • by Tim Dams
  • ScreenDaily
Pure Unknown - Amber Wilkinson - 18325
Cristina Cattaneo
Cristina Cattaneo is likely to be among the people who are unknown to you at the start of this eye-opening documentary by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo, which is screening as part of Visions du Réel. Afterwards, however, you’ll likely view the Italian forensic pathologist as an unsung hero, who is fighting for the rights of those who can no longer speak for themselves.

Cicogna and Colombo’s observational approach immerses us in the comings and goings of Cattaneo’s lab in Milan. It is here where she encounters those she labels “pure unknowns”, the bodies of the dead - many killed attempting the treacheorous sea crossing from Africa to Europe - who have no indication of identity beyond the clothes they stood up in and whatever is in their pockets.

In between meticulously documenting what she can about each body in the lab, she composes emails that try to call attention to.
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  • 4/21/2023
  • by Amber Wilkinson
  • eyeforfilm.co.uk
Deckert Boards ‘Pure Unknown,’ ‘My Father’s Prison’ Ahead of Premieres at Visions du Reel (Exclusive)
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Sales company Deckert Distribution has boarded “Pure Unknown,” by Italy’s Mattia Colombo (“Il Posto”) and Valentina Cicogna, and Venezuelan filmmaker Iván Simonovis Pertíñez’s debut feature “My Father’s Prison,” both selected in the main International Competition at Swiss international documentary film festival Visions du Réel.

“Pure Unknown” follows the story of Italian forensic pathologist Cristina Cattaneo in her battle to put a name to each nameless body that lands in her autopsy room.

She calls them the Pure Unknown. Many belong to the fringes of society: they are homeless, sex workers or runaway teenagers. More recently, they have been mostly migrants drowned at sea trying to reach Europe’s shores.

The film marks Cicogna’s directorial debut. An established scriptwriter and editor, she first met Cattaneo in 2015 while researching an autopsy scene for a thriller she was writing, she tells Variety. She approached her long-time collaborator,...
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  • 4/21/2023
  • by Lise Pedersen
  • Variety Film + TV
Visions du Réel unveils global line-up of documentaries for 2023 edition
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Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel is guest of honour at Swiss non-fiction festival

Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel (VdR) has revealed the line-up for its 54th edition which opens with Juliette de Marcillac’s Nightwatchers and runs April 21-30.

The festival has programmed 163 films – including 82 world premieres.

Nightwatchers is part of the previously announced Grand Angle competition. Filmed at high-end ski resort Montgenèvre on the French-Italian border, it tells the story of volunteers trying to help migrants, and the authorities trying to catch them.

VdR’s flagship international competition has 14 competing films, including 12 world premieres and two international premieres.

Swiss...
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  • 3/28/2023
  • by Tim Dams
  • ScreenDaily
Swiss Documentary Festival Visions du Reel Unveils Lineup Including 82 World Premieres
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Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel (VdR) has unveiled the lineup of its 54th edition, which features a broad panorama of both established names and newcomers from around the world.

The festival kicks off on April 21 with the world premiere of “Nightwatchers” by Juliette de Marcillac and runs through April 30. The event will screen a total of 163 films from 46 countries, with a 50-50 parity between female and male directors.

No fewer than 12 out of 14 films in the main International Competition and 13 out of 15 in the Burning Lights section, the festival sidebar dedicated to new documentary expression, are world premieres, bearing testimony to the fest’s reputation for setting the trend on the global doc scene.

“I am thrilled to see that Visions du Réel is confirming both its role as a trailblazer – there are 24 first feature length films whilst 82 of the films screened are world premieres – and strong ties...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 3/28/2023
  • by Lise Pedersen
  • Variety Film + TV
China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival Returns As In-Person Event; Competition Titles Include ‘Aftersun’, ‘Saint Omer’, ‘The Beasts’
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Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) in China’s Sanya has returned as an in-person event, following a relatively short Covid-related postponement, with separate competition sections for features, documentaries and shorts.

The festival opened on December 18 with a screening of Chinese filmmaker Da Peng’s Post Truth and is scheduled to wrap on December 25. It was originally scheduled to run December 3-10, but was postponed due to the on-going Covid situation.

Veteran festival director Marco Mueller recently joined Hiiff as artistic director. He previously headed programming for China’s Pingyao International Film Festival.

Hiiff’s 11-title competition section will screen recent festival favourites including Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts. Chinese titles in competition include Chakme Rinpoche’s Georgia and Qiao Siyu’s The Cord Of Life. The documentary competition will screen eight titles (see line-up below).

In addition to the competition sections,...
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  • 12/19/2022
  • by Liz Shackleton
  • Deadline Film + TV
China’s Hainan film festival reveals new dates, competition line-ups
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Marco Mueller overseeing fourth edition of festival.

China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) is to take place from December 18-25, after being postponed at short notice, and has revealed the titles in its feature and documentary competitions.

The fourth edition of the festival, held in the city of Sanya, was set to run from December 3-10 but was abruptly put on hold following a rise in Covid cases. Now, following the relaxation of pandemic measure in China over the past week, the festival is back on and has unveiled its line-up of titles.

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The Hiiff Competition,...
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  • 12/16/2022
  • by Michael Rosser
  • ScreenDaily
‘Il Posto’ to Roll Out on Arte and Ndr Following World Premiere at Visions du Réel (Exclusive)
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“Il Posto” (“A Steady Job”), which world premiered Tuesday at Visions du Réel film festival, is set to launch in Europe on Franco-German channel Arte and German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk in September. The film is directed by Italian duo Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese, whose “Fashion Babylon” premiered recently at Cph:dox.

“Il Posto,” which is competing in Visions du Réel’s Grand Angle section, takes the viewer on a road movie between southern and northern Italy alongside Italian nurses in search of a steady job.

The bus service is run by Raffaele, an unemployed nurse who decided to set up his own company to help freelance nurses like himself travel to the north at low cost to pass an exam that will secure them a job in the public health system.

As the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Raffaele sees the number of his clients drop and, with his business on the brink of bankruptcy,...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 4/13/2022
  • by Lise Pedersen
  • Variety Film + TV
Gianluca Matarrese
Report: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Agora 2020 - Thessaloniki Documentary 2020 – Agora Doc
Gianluca Matarrese
We present an overview of the winning European projects from Agora, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's industry section, which was held online this year. We bring you an overview of the winning European projects from Agora, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's industry section, which was held online for the first time owing to the coronavirus outbreak. You can read the news about the winners here. Pitching Forum award winners Thessaloniki Pitching Forum Award and Mfi Doc Lab Script 2 Film Workshop AwardA Steady Job (Italy/France)Co-directed by Italian filmmakers Mattia Colombo (I Wanna Sleep With You) and Gianluca Matarrese and produced by Giovanni Donfrancesco, of Florence- and Paris-based Altara Films (The Resolute), follows a bus full of nurses from the South of Italy who travel to try their luck in a competition for a job in the great hospitals of the North,...
See full article at Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
  • 3/16/2020
  • Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Gianluca Matarrese
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Agora hands out its awards - Thessaloniki Documentary 2020 – Agora Doc
Gianluca Matarrese
Projects from Italy, France, Greece, Ukraine, Georgia, the USA, Netherlands, Spain and Palestine have won prizes in the Pitching Forum and Docs in Progress sections. The first of what looks to be a series of industry events that are being moved online due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Agora has been a resounding success, according to the jury of the Pitching Forum, who congratulated the participants and the organisers. The jury consisted of Heidi Tao Yang, of Canada's Hot Docs Film Funds; Gitte Hansen, of Switzerland's First Hand Films; and HBO Europe's Hanka Kastelicová, who said they were “really thrilled with the selection. [We] have heard 12 strong pitches, and it was hard to choose the winners, as many projects deserve an award.” A Steady Job by Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese, a co-production between Italy's Altara Films and France's Bocalupo Films, won two gongs: the...
See full article at Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
  • 3/13/2020
  • Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Gianluca Matarrese
Italian nurse film ‘A Steady Job’ wins Thessaloniki industry awards
Gianluca Matarrese
Agora Doc Market took place entirely online for the first time due to coronavirus concerns.

A timely documentary focused on Italian nurses has won a brace of awards at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s annual Agora Doc Market.

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A Steady Job, directed by Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese, picked up the Thessaloniki Pitching Forum Award of €2,000 and the Mfi Doc Lab Script2Film Workshop award with a full scholarship worth €2,500.

The film follows the journey taken by multitudes of Italian nurses every month, who journey from the south of the country to the...
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  • 3/12/2020
  • by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
  • ScreenDaily
The 2015 Slamdance Film Festival announces its lineup
While the Sundance Film Festival is the better known film festival located in Utah that runs in January, it is not the only one, as the Slamdance Film Festival has been running in the same place during the same month for over 20 years. The unique aspect of the Slamdance Film Festival, however, is its Narrative Features and Documentary Features program, which restricts its selection to films that are directorial debuts, made for under $1 million, and don’t have Us distribution. The 2015 incarnation of the festival is set to run from January 23rd to the 29th, and ahead of the festival’s premiere next month, organisers have unveiled the lineup for the aforementioned categories. The lineup is as follows.

Narrative Features Program:

Across The Sea (Turkey/USA), making its North American Premiere

Written and Directed by Nisan Dağ and Esra Saydam

Starring Damla Sönmez, Jacob Fishel, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Hakan Karsak,...
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  • 12/2/2014
  • by Deepayan Sengupta
  • SoundOnSight
Slamdance 2015 unveils line-up
Festival top brass announced the 19 films that will screen at the Slamdance Film Festival, set to run in Park City, Utah, from January 23-29.

The 11 narrative and eight documentary selections include 13 world premieres. All competition films are feature directorial debuts budgeted below $1m without Us distribution.

“It’s very exciting to bring this dynamic lineup to audiences in Park City,” said festival director Anna Germanidi. “We are proud to help launch these filmmakers’ careers and celebrate the success we all believe these films deserve.”

“Our success in showcasing emerging artists is most obviously linked with American talent, but increasingly at Slamdance, we want to also support new international talent,” said co-founder and president Peter Baxter.

All synopses below provided by Slamdance.

Narrative Features

Across The Sea (Turkey-usa)

Dirs Nisan Dağ, Esra Saydam

Young, beautiful and pregnant, Damla has to confront her first love in a Turkish summer town before she can fully embrace her new life in...
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  • 12/1/2014
  • by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
  • ScreenDaily
Dennis Rodman in The Apprentice (2004)
Slamdance Fest Sets Slate
Dennis Rodman in The Apprentice (2004)
The Sundance Film Festival dominates Park City in late January, but there is also the upstart Slamdance Film Festival. We’ve not really highlighted that fest or its program, but I always stay at Treasure Mountain Inn where Slamdance is headquartered and they’ve kind of grown on me. Last year they brought Christopher Nolan to speak (the fest had the good sense to program his first film) and Joe Mangianello came to vamp his male stripper docu. This year, there’s every chance of seeing Dennis Rodman, the flamboyant former rebounding machine and Bff of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for the docu Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang In Pyongyang. So let’s all root for an international incident! Here are the films they’ll be playing from January 23-29:

Narrative Features Program

Across the Sea – Directors & Screenwriters: Nisan Dağ, Esra Saydam. (Turkey/USA) North American Premiere.
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  • 12/1/2014
  • by Mike Fleming Jr
  • Deadline
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