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11036 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 18/09/2025.

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

Olivier Meys • Director of Jahia’s Summer

Interview: Olivier Meys • Director of Jahia’s Summer

"The idea wasn’t to make a propaganda film, but to lend real human form to asylum requests"

The Belgian director spoke to us about his sensitive portrayal of a young female asylum seeker who’s living her life in limbo and whose fate changes through the beauty of friendship  

27/06 | BRIFF 2025

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

David  Duponchel  •  Festival Director Al Este Festival

Interview: David Duponchel • Festival Director Al Este Festival

The three festivals have all similiraties but each are adaptated to the country

The director of Al Este David Duponchel talks about the three different editions of the festival, their locations, their similarities and their differences  

25/06 | Euro Film Fest

Manon Kerjean  •  Founder of Lost in Frenchlation

Interview: Manon Kerjean • Founder of Lost in Frenchlation

"Today we have screened more than 500 films with English subtitles"

Manon Kerjean is the founder of Lost in Frenchlation which is a cineclub organising French films screenings with English subtitles in France  

25/06 | Euro Film Fest

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

Jean-Pascal Zadi • Director of Black to the Future

Interview: Jean-Pascal Zadi • Director of Black to the Future

"I wanted to write science fiction, but from a new perspective: African and environmental"

The actor-director talks to us about his adventure comedy, which imagines that the race to conquer space is led by a crew trained and financed in Africa  

25/06 | BRIFF 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

Lucas Belvaux • Director of The Haunted Minds

Interview: Lucas Belvaux • Director of The Haunted Minds

"Genre allows you to smuggle ideas in, to tell stories about society without appearing to do so"

The Belgian filmmaker talks to us about his latest film, the story of a disturbing manhunt that ventures into metaphysical reflections on life  

24/06 | BRIFF 2025

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