Santwana Bayaskar’s doc short Kata's Motherhood won the Best Short Documentary award of the Short Joy section and Violena Ampudia’s graduation film BLUE received a Special Mention of the Jury for Best Experimental Doc in the Fascinations section at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.

Also, Memories of a Perfect Day by Davina-Maria El Khoury won the Special Jury Award of the Portuguese Authors Society in the Portuguese Competition of Doclisboa IFF.

Read More

The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival selected films of DN students for its 27th edition held from 24 to 29 October.

Santwana Bayaskar’s doc short Kata's Motherhood and Violena Ampudia’s graduation film BLUE will be in competition in the sections Short Joy / Fascinations, María Casas Castillo´s graduation film Dust is a whale, is sunlight, Inshallah Montero’s doc short Reversible, and Anna Gyimesi’s graduation film Falling will be presented in the section First Lights.

Read More

Memories of a Perfect Day by Davina-Maria El Khoury is presented in the Portuguese Competition, whereas in the Green Years competitive section will premiere Onde quer que o Sol esteja by Jeremy Luke Bolatag.

Also, Motherland, a feature-length documentary co-directed by Alexander Mihalkovich, alumnus from DocNomads edition 3, is presented in the 21st edition of DocLisboa held from 19 to 29 October.

Read More

Juliette Menthonnex´s graduation film Tale of the Three Flames will have its world premiere in the International Documentary Competition, and Daryna Mamaisur’s graduation film Smoke of the Fire will be screened in the Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe section at the 66th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film held from 8 to 15 October.

Read More