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Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).

At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.

A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.

The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.

Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...

Mr. Turner among first 12 films named in the Riff line-up.

British filmmaker Mike Leigh has been named the guest of honour at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, ahead of its 11th edition (Sept 25 - Oct 5).

His latest film, Mr. Turner, which picked up a Best Actor prize for Timothy Spall at the Cannes Film Festival in May, will be screened at the festival.

Previous Riff guests of honour include Milos Forman, Lukas Moodysson and Jim Jarmusch.

More than 80 features will be screened at the festival and 12 films by new directors will compete for the Golden Puffin in the New Visions category.

Other strands include Open Seas, featuring a variety of recent prize-winning films; green movies, comprising documentaries on environmental matters, in strand titled A Different Tomorrow; Icelandic short films; and a variety of docs.

Ahead of releasing the full line-up, an initial 12 titles have been teased out. As well as Mr. Turner, these include:...

Out of competition screening for My Craft about artist Arsen Dedic.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced its documentary competition for 2014.

Themes explored include non-violent protests and civil disobedience (Everyday Rebellion); refugee immigration and growing xenophobia (Evaporating Borderes); a controversial Stalin statue in a small town (The Ruler); Egyptian women in the Arab Spring (Private Revolutions); and It engineers searching for love (Love and Engineering).

Also, the festival will host a gala screening, out of competition, with the international premiere of Mladen Matičević’s My Craft from Croatia and Serbia, about the music, poetry and life of the artist Arsen Dedić.

Documentary Competition

Azemina

Enes Zlatar, Ajdin Kamber (Bosnia and Herzegovina) [world premiere]

Ghetto 59

Ines Tanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) [world premiere]

Naked Island

Tiha Klara Gudac (Croatia) [world premiere]

Private Revolutions – Young, Female, Egyptian

Alexandra Schneider (Austria) [world premiere]

The Ruler

Shalva Shengeli (Georgia) [world premiere]

Scandal

Elton Baxhaku, Eriona Cami (Albania) [world premiere]

Children Of Transition

Matija Vukšić (Croatia)

The Forest

Siniša Dragin (Romania-Serbia)

Mitch - The Diary...

Out of competition screening for My Craft about artist Arsen Dedic.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced its documentary competition for 2014.

Themes explored include non-violent protests and civil disobedience (Everyday Rebellion); refugee immigration and growing xenophobia (Evaporating Borderes); a controversial Stalin statue in a small town (The Ruler); Egyptian women in the Arab Spring (Private Revolutions); and It engineers searching for love (Love and Engineering).

Also, the festival will host a gala screening, out of competition, with the international premiere of Mladen Matičević’s My Craft from Croatia and Serbia, about the music, poetry and life of the artist Arsen Dedić.

Documentary Competition

Azemina, Enes Zlatar, Ajdin Kamber (Bosnia and Herzegovina) [world premiere]

Ghetto 59, Ines Tanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) [world premiere]

Naked Island, Tiha Klara Gudac (Croatia) [world premiere]

Private Revolutions – Young, Female, Egyptian, Alexandra Schneider (Austria) [world premiere] [pictured]

The Ruler, Shalva Shengeli (Georgia) [world premiere]

Scandal, Elton Baxhaku, Eriona Cami (Albania) [world premiere]

Children Of Transition, Matija Vukšić (Croatia)

The Forest, Siniša Dragin...

The nominations in the various competition sections have been announced at the documentary festival.

Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has announced the nominees for its 26th edition. Winners will be named on Friday evening in Amsterdam.

The jury of the Idfa Competition for First Appearance will also present an extra Award in memory of Peter Wintonick, who died earlier this month.

The BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award, worth €5,000, and the Idfa Music Audience Award, worth €2,500, will then also be presented.

In addition, the Mediafonds Kids & Docs Award 2013, which consists of € 15,000 with which to develop a new youth documentary, will be presented by a youth jury.

Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary (€12,500)

Ai Weiwei The Fake Case by Andreas Johnson (Denmark);Ne Me Quitte Pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden (the Netherlands / Belgium);Song from the Forest by Michael Obert (Germany).

Idfa Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (€10,000)

Kismet by Nina Maria Paschalidou (Greece / Cyprus);Pussy Versus...