The Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia is continuing its impressive awards run, earning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature over the weekend at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California.
06.03.2024 - 16:29 / variety.com
Christopher Vourlias As the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival embarks on its second quarter-century, with its 26th edition kicking off March 7, the event’s industry arm continues to look for ways to reinvent itself. “We are educating ourselves. We are asking the local and the regional industries and communities, ‘What do you need from us?’” says Angeliki Vergou, who heads the Agora industry program.
“I believe in this open dialogue…with our colleagues about the challenges they face and we face [as we] try to figure it out together.” A perennial highlight of the industry program is the Agora’s co-production and co-financing forum, which takes place March 11 and will present 12 projects in development by documentary filmmakers from Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and the Black Sea region. Another highlight, Agora Docs in Progress, held March 12, showcases 11 films nearing completion and ready to hit the festival circuit this year. Recent titles to take part in the Agora pitching forum include Alisa Kovalenko’s 2023 Berlinale premiere “We Will Not Fade Away” and Tzeli Hadjidimitriou’s debut documentary feature “Lesvia” (pictured, top), which world premieres March 8 in Thessaloniki.
Among the awards that will be handed out is a new €10,000 ($10,900) cash prize from the International Emerging Film Talents Assn. (IEFTA) for a project in development, making Thessaloniki just the second fest, after the Cannes Film Festival’s Cannes Docs, where IEFTA will be handing out such an award. The nearly two-decade-old pitching forum unspools against a radically different backdrop for docmakers from Southeast Europe.
The Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia is continuing its impressive awards run, earning the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature over the weekend at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California.
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The champagne may be flowing at the kickoff for the 27th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival – for more reasons than one.