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Highlights
DAE Talks With: Director & Writer, Aistė Žegulytė and Co-Writer, Vėjūnė Tamuliūnaitė of HOLY DESTRUCTORS
byFor the last in my conversation series for this year, it was my pleasure to speak with Lithuanian writer-director, Aistė […]
YOUTH DOC TRAINING @ IDFA 2025: Announcement of the Cohort
byThe D4K-Alliance is launching its first European Training focusing on children’s documentaries in cooperation with IDFA (NL), organised by DOXS […]
DAE Talks With: Director & Writer, Oleksiy Radynski and Producer, Lyuba Knorozok of SPECIAL OPERATION
byLike every other year since its inception, the program selection at this year’s edition of DokuFest in Kosovo, its twenty-fourth, […]
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