A new initiative announced last month is on its way to becoming a reality: this year, EFP - European Film Promotion is launching, in collaboration with Toronto's Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival (the 25th edition of which is set to take place from 26 April-6 May) and with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA, a programme entitled The Changing Face of Europe, showcasing ten new documentaries illustrating and examining the current cultural, geographic, economic and political factors affecting Europe today. The ten selected films have just been announced. 

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From a line-up of 36 submissions made by EFP member organisations, the organisers of North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market have accepted ten outstanding, creative works, representing 14 European countries. All of these documentaries will be personally introduced by their filmmakers and sometimes also accompanied by their producers. The programme, including one world, two international and four North American premieres, embraces a variety of topics.

Clément Cogitore's Braguino, a French-Finnish co-production submitted by UniFrance, is set in the vast loneliness of the Siberian taiga, whilst Melanie Andernach and Andreas Köhler's Global Family follows a family clan scattered around the globe after fleeing war-torn Somalia (submitted by German Films), and Heike Bachelier and Andy Heathcote's Of Fish and Foe observes Scottish salmon fishermen (British Council). 

Kiur Aarma and Raimo Joerand's Rodeo [+lire aussi :
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The Czech Film Center is presenting two films: Petr Horký's The Russian Job, on a run-down automobile factory from the Soviet era which an experienced Swedish manager tries to bring back to prosperity, as well as Vít Klusák's portrait of a Czech Neo-Nazi at odds with his life, The White World According to Daliborek [+lire aussi :
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The selection is rounded off by two very personal stories broaching the subjects of cultural identity and new lifestyle concepts: Biljana Tutorov's When Pigs Come [+lire aussi :
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The filmmakers selected to take part in The Changing Face of Europe will participate in an array of festival industry events, including workshops, pitches and meetings with potential buyers, which will enhance their professional development on an international scale and increase their films' access to the North American and international markets. Click here for more information on the selection for The Changing Face of Europe 2018.