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Eight feature documentaries and eight short docs have been selected as finalists for the 16th Doc Alliance Awards, presented by the Doc Alliance – the association of European documentary festivals.
The announcement of nominees was made today during Doc Day at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Each member festival chooses one feature and one short as its nominees, selected from among the program of their most recent events. The winners will be revealed at DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo in August, where all the nominated films will screen. A three-person jury will choose the winners: Anna Berthollet (CEO, Sales & Acquisitions at Lightdox), journalist and programmer Arnaud Hée (La Cinémathèque du Documentaire) and festival programmer Jonathan Ali (Third Horizon, Tribeca Film Festival).
The winning feature will earn a €5,000 prize, while the winning short will receive €3,000. Members of the Doc Alliance include CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark); Docslisboa (Lisbon, Portugal); DOK Leipzig (Leipzig, German); FIDMarseille (Marseille, France); Ji.hlava IDFF (Jihlava, Czech Republic); Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Lublin, Bydgoszcz and Łódź, Poland), Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland), and this year’s guest festival, DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo.
Full list of Best Feature nominees:
a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN, Czech Republic, director: Jan Bušta, nominated
by Ji.hlava IDFF
Christina (Kristina), Serbia, director: Nikola Spasic, nominated by FIDMarseille
Death of a City (A Morte de uma Cidade), Portugal, director: João Rosas, nominated
by Doclisboa
Disturbed Earth, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ North Macedonia/ Spain, directors:
Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi, nominated by DokuFest
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