We are happy to have the premieres of five of our films at the prestigious and Oscar® qualifying Greek Festival. You’ll find THE BEAUTY OF ERRORS in the International Competition, IN COD WE TRUST in the Newcomers Competition, JASON’S BOX, SCARECROWS and MENOPAUSE MYSTERY in the Open Horizon. Don’t miss it.
We are happy to present the new film of Evgenia Arbugaeva: Chuuraa. As her first film Haulout it will also have its world premiere at Berlinale Shorts. Meet us there and at EFM.
Meet us at IDF in Amsterdam. And also have a look at the film DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK by Marcin Wierzchowski screened in the Best of Fests section.
Happy to present our film THE HELSINKI EFFECT to the Nordic audience at Nordisk Panorama. Meeting you all there also for the pitches.
Another award for BLAME. In New Zealand the film was awarded yesterday at DocEdge NZ with the In Truth We Trust Award. Congratulations to the team.
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
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.
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.
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.”