dok.incubator, an international rough-cut training initiative for documentary filmmakers, which provides six months of individual tutoring by top-notch editors, producers and distributors, is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and to mark this occasion, it will hold an online presentation of the eight projects from its 2020 edition on 9 February.

During the presentation, the teams behind the projects from the past year will pitch them to international decision makers, including programmers from Sundance, IDFA, Hot Docs and CPH:DOX, in the hope of securing a release for the upcoming films.

An overview of the projects can be found here, and for the full list, please scroll down.

Andrea Prenghyová, project director of dok.incubator, says: “The film industry has faced many challenges over the past few months, and so have our teams for this year’s programme. When they applied in January 2020, none of us could have imagined the state of the world we find ourselves in today. Our participants, however, most of them fairly new to the industry, have shown remarkable flexibility, creativity and resilience. We want to kick off the year by learning from and celebrating them.”

The online presentation will take place at 4 pm on 9 February, and you can register by sending an email to nela@dok.incubator.net by 5 February.

Each year, dok.incubator selects eight international projects. Since its inception in 2012, the initiative has seen the participation of dozens of international hit titles, including Acasă, My Home [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Ciorniciuc
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interview : Iryna Tsilyk
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fiche film] by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, Ukrainian Sheriffs [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Roman Bondarchuk and The Workers Cup [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jindřich Andrš, The Disappearance of My Mother [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Beniamino Barrese, Gods of Molenbeek [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Reetta Huhtanen, Lapü by César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco, The Men's Room [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jo Vemund Svendsen and Petter Sommer, Searching Eva [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pia Hellenthal, Eva Collé
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fiche film] by Ilinca Călugăreanu.

Recent tutors include producers Sigrid Dyekjær, Ulla Simonen and Christine Le Goff, editors Yael Bitton, Per K Kirkegaard and Gesa Marten, marketing strategist Freddy Neumann, and sales agents Vesna Cudic (MetFilm Sales), Salma Abdalla (Autlook Filmsales), Maëlle Guenegues (CAT&Docs), Philippa Kowarsky (Cinephil) and Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de/Deckert Distribution).

The projects selected for the tenth edition of dok.incubator will be announced in March 2021.

The full list of dok.incubator 2020/2021 projects is as follows:

How to Kill a Cloud [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tuija Halttunen
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Director: Tuija Halttunen
Producer: Niina Virtanen
Editor: Jussi Sandhu
Production company: Wacky Tie Films

Life of Ivanna [+lire aussi :
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Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano
Producer: Vlad Ketkovich
Co-producers: Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Pertti Veijalainen, Marianna Kaat
Editor: Inge-Lise Langfeldt
Production companies: Ethnofund, Ten Thousand Images, Illume Ltd

We Are Inside (Lebanon/Qatar/Denmark)
Director: Farah Kassem
Producer: Cynthia Choucair
Co-producer: Patricia Drati
Editor: Anders Jepsen
Production companies: Road[2]Films, Good Company Pictures, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel

Diagnosense (Norway)
Director: Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård
Producers: Andrew Grant, Øyvind Nyborg Gregersen
Editors: Truls Krane Meby, Stéphanie Morin
Production company: Mattima Films

Ciné-Guerrillas, Scenes from Labudović Reels [+lire aussi :
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Director: Mila Turajlić
Producers: Carine Chichkowsky, Mila Turajlić
Editor: Sylvie Gadmer
Production companies: Dribbling Pictures, Survivance, Restart, Kino

Brotherhood [+lire aussi :
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interview : Francesco Montagner
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Director: Francesco Montagner
Producer: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Co-producer: Nadia Trevisan
Editor: Valentina Cicogna
Associated producer: Dagmar Sedláčková
Production companies: Nutprodukce, Nefertiti Film

The Pawnshop (Poland)
Director: Lukasz Kowalski
Producer: Anna Mazerant
Editor: Adriana F Castellanos
Production company: 4.30 Studio

Untitled Turkey Project (Germany)
Director: Maria Binder
Producer: Florian Schewe
Editors: Eytan Ipeker, Janine Dauterich, Florian Miosge
Production company: Film five