News

11 Juni 2025

BLAME winning Audience Award

BLAME has won the Audience Award at the 28th CinemAmbiente Festival in Turin. Despite the complexity of its subject matter, BLAME resonates strongly with audiences. „Blame is not just a documentary. It is a field report. A case study. A moral reckoning. Blame is not merely a defense of scientists; it is a defense of the very idea that truth still matters.“ „Each frame, each quote, each scientific detail builds toward a singular point: the greatest threat to public health may not be a virus, but the systems that distort truth for political gain.“ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/06/usdf-j06.html

01 Juni 2025

Rise And Shine Award in Cannes

Congratulations to Jorge Acevedo Carrasco and Mixie Araya Soler, who’s project THE TIGER OF THE EAST was selected by the Jury to receive the Rise And Shine Award at Cannes Docs in May.

07 Mai 2025

Meet us in Cannes

We’ll be at Cannes Docs again from May 16 til 20. See you there.

17 März 2025

Thessaloniki Doc

Success for Rise And Shine films at Thessaloniki international Documentary Festival. Our latest acquisition CHILD OF DUST participated in the Main competition and received a Special Mentions. Congratulations to the young filmmaker Weronika Mliczewska. And our lovable THE DAY ICELAND STOOD STILL which participated out of competition received the Audience Award. Congrats to Pam Hogan and Hrabba Gunnarsdottir.

22 März 2024

CPH:DOX

We are very happy to announce our first RISE AND SHINE AWARD Winner for a project in the pitching forum with the best international potential and no sales agent: It was given to Children Of Honey. Directed by Jigar Ganatra and produced by former BBC exec Natalie Humphreys for Storyboard Studios, the Tanzania-UK co-production follows three friends growing up in one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa. The jury described it as “a generous invitation that welcomes us into a rarely seen culture that is threatening to disappear and sheds light on pressing issues.”

31 Okt. 2023

IDFA 2023

We are happy to meet you at IDFA from November 10 until 15, with the world premieres of the films IN WOLF COUNTRY and SON OF MULLAH, both in Frontlight competition.

17 Okt. 2023

DokLeizig 2023

We are very happy for Marianna Kaat, who was awarded with the MDR Filmpreis at DokLeipzig for her film THE LAST RELIC. Congrats!

30 Aug. 2023

European Film Awards

Very happy to see our film THE HEARING in the list of potential nominations for the European Film Awards. Keeping our fingers crossed. Congrats to the film team.

13 Juni 2023

A double at Cinemambiente

We are happy to announce that both of our films participating at Cinemambiente 2023, have been awarded at the weekend. LYNX MAN won the main award for BEST DOCUMENTARY. This is what the jury says: For its skillful synthesis of ethnographic research, poetic narrative and aesthetic quality giving birth to a film capable of narrating the culture-nature, transcendence-immanence, man-animal relationship, breaking the anthropocentric vision without giving in to an overly romantic rhetoric. At the same time, the film restores in an almost realistic way a local, Finnish-Arctic culture that conceives the protection of biodiversity and natural heritage as an existential task of the individual and communities.The film presents in a symbolic intimist style an image of the relationship with nature present in European culture and society that is able to coexist with a world undergoing great transformation, traversed by conflicts and upheavals produced by the…

16 Mai 2023

RAS in Cannes

Meet us at the new CANNES DOCS. We are in Cannes May 20 til 24 presenting our brand new film titles. See you there.