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NEWS

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 2023 tributes

FIPADOC 2023: the complete winners

FIPADOC closes 2023 Industry Days with award ceremony

On 80th anniversary, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival pays tribute to the city’s Holocaust victims

FIFDH kicks of 2023 Industry Days activities with day-long seminar

Visions du Réel announces 2023 Honorary Award recipient

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival tributes observational documentary with 2023 retrospective

FIPADOC announces complete 2023 programme

Sunny Side of the Doc reveals 2023 Global Pitch selections

INTERVIEW

«Starting the year in an inspiring location by the sea is the perfect setting for launching new ideas and making new connections»

FIPADOC Industry Days Head of Coproduction Forum Ove Rishøj Jensen on the specifics of this year's edition, its role as the first festival of the year, and more.

FILMS

Cobalt Rush: The Future of Going Green

FIPADOC

Director: Arnaud Zajtman, Quentin Noirfalisse

The cost of going carbon neutral painted in the nightmare colours of cobalt blue.

Matter Out of Place

FIPADOC

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Following waste across the planet and the endless struggle of people to gain control over it.

The Investigator

FIPADOC

Director: Viktor Portel

A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future...

Too Close

FIPADOC

Director: Botond Püsök

Multi-layered and wholly dedicated to observation, Too Close is as searing an indictment of faith-based tribalism as it is an expose on other current societal practices - from both liberal and conservative, alike.

Umberto Eco - A Library of the World

Director: Davide Ferrario

How books represent a collective world memory, as described through the vast collection of Umberto Eco.

BOOKS

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World

Author: Zarifa Ghafari Hannah Lucinda Smith

Afghanistan's youngest female mayor's memoir covering the country's tumultuous two-decade span, from the Taliban's initial banning of women in school to America's incessant airstrikes and beyond.