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9752 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 03/09/2025.

Sunny Side of the Doc announces its winning pitches

Sunny Side of the Doc announces its winning pitches

With In Front of Us and Leonard Cohen: Behind the Iron Curtain, European producers shine bright in two of the seven categories in which awards were handed out at the documentary market pitch  

27/06 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2025 | Awards

Review: 13 Days, 13 Nights

Review: 13 Days, 13 Nights

Martin Bourboulon delivers an enthralling and hard-hitting thriller inspired by real events and remixed in an American style which places charismatic Roschdy Zem centre stage  

26/06 | Films | Reviews | France

Cyrille Perez and Emmanuelle Mauger • President of the Audiovisual College and Deputy General Delegate, France's Union of Independent Producers

Interview: Cyrille Perez and Emmanuelle Mauger • President of the Audiovisual College and Deputy General Delegate, France's Union of Independent Producers

"Documentary is the key genre of democracy; otherwise, we will have image taps, without reflection, without perspective"

The members of France's Union of Independent Producers (SPI) examine all the issues surrounding documentary production: public service, platforms, export, financing, creative freedom...  

25/06 | Sunny Side of The Doc 2025

Unifrance brings "Watch Next from France" to Sunny Side of the Doc

Unifrance brings "Watch Next from France" to Sunny Side of the Doc

A selection of 21 French documentaries with high international potential are being presented to buyers assembled in La Rochelle  

25/06 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2025

Song Pham, Martin Laurent • Producers, Temps noir

Interview: Song Pham, Martin Laurent • Producers, Temps noir

"What our films have in common is that they question the way the world works by seeking out the political dimension"

Selected for the Sunny Side of the Doc pitch with Greenland, The Icy Eldorado, the Parisian production company is brimming with projects  

24/06 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2025

Julie Gourdain’s De l’autre côté de l’été scoops a CNC advance on receipts

Julie Gourdain’s De l’autre côté de l’été scoops a CNC advance on receipts

The French film centre is also throwing its weight behind first feature films by Mathilde Profit, Foued Mansour and Boris Petric  

24/06 | Production | Funding | France

The 3rd edition of the Biarritz Film Festival - Nouvelles Vagues is ready to open its doors

The 3rd edition of the Biarritz Film Festival - Nouvelles Vagues is ready to open its doors

Sofia Coppola and Keira Knightley will dazzle among the many guests invited to the festival, unspooling between 24 and 29 June and comprising an eight-feature-film competition  

23/06 | Festivals | Awards | France

60 films to be showcased at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival

60 films to be showcased at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival

French and US independent cinema will be placed centre stage at the 14th edition of this event unspooling in Paris between 17 and 23 June  

20/06 | Festivals | Awards | France

EXCLUSIVE: The Party Film Sales boards On the Way

EXCLUSIVE: The Party Film Sales boards On the Way

The French sales agent is adding Natalia Dołgowska’s project to its line-up, a movie produced by Kijora Film, Bellota Films and Cinedokke and set to be pitched in La Rochelle  

20/06 | Sunny Side of the Doc 2025

Léa Mysius shooting Histoires de la nuit

Léa Mysius shooting Histoires de la nuit

Bastien Bouillon, Hafsia Herzi, Monica Bellucci, Twaba El Gharchy, Benoît Magimel, Paul Hamy and Alane Delhaye all star in this F Comme Film production  

19/06 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium

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