Doc Alliance
"Doc Alliance" - "The New Deal for Documentary Films" is a collaboration between seven major European documentary film festivals: CPH: DOX Copenhagen ( Denmark ), Doclisboa ( Portugal ), Docs Against Gravity FF ( Poland ), DOK Leipzig ( Germany ), FID Marseille ( France ), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival ( Czech Republic ) and Visions du Réel Nyon ( Switzerland ).
The aim of the Doc Alliance is to stimulate the documentary genre and to promote qualitatively creative documentaries. Doc Alliance is based in Prague and was founded in 2008. It is financially supported by Creative Europe, the Czech Film Fund and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
DAFilms.com is the Doc Alliance's online distribution platform and is home to more than 1,700 films; from historical films to retrospectives by leading documentary filmmakers. The database contains films by filmmakers such as: Ulrich Seidl , Jørgen Leth (Jens Leth) (New Scenes From America) and Chris Marker (The Fall Of The Grinning Cat).
Doc Alliance selection and award
The Doc Alliance Award is a prize for the best European feature length documentary with a special focus on creative documentaries and exceptional talent. Each participating festival nominates their film for participation in the competition. The award ceremony has been taking place at the Locarno Festival since 2015 .
2015
- Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) - Director: Abbas Fahdel - Winner DAS Award 2015
- Walking Under Water - Director: Eliza Kubarska
- Stranded in Canton - Director: Måns Månsson
- Illusion Director: Sofia Marques
- I Am the People - Director: Anna Roussillon
- Haunted Director: Liwaa Yazji
- All Things Ablaze - Directors: Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov
2016
- Gulîstan, Land of Roses - Director: Zaynê Akyol - Winner DAS Award 2016
- Jarocin - The Rise of Freedom - Director Lech Gnoinski, Marek Gajczak
- Fragment 53 - Director: Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli
- Maybe Desert, Perhaps Universe - Director Miguel Seabra Lopes, Karen Akerman
- Steam on the River - Director Filip Remunda, Robert Kirchhoff
- Maestà, the Passion of Christ - Director: Andy Guérif
- Train to Adulthood - Director: Klára Trencsényi
2017
- Taste of Cement - Director Ziad Kalthoum - Winner DAS Award 2017
- 95 and 6 to Go - Director: Kimi Takesue
- Convictions - Director: Tatyana Chistova
- Childhood Director: Margreth Olin
- Specters Are Haunting Europe - Directors: Maria Kourkouta, Niki Giannari
- Those Shocking Shaking Days - Director: Selma Doborac
- When Will This Wind Stop - Director: Aniela Astrid Gabryel
2018
- Srbenka - Director: Nebojša Slijepčević - Winner DAS Award 2018
- Doel - Director: Frederik Sølberg
- Granny Project - Director: Bálint Révész
- The Limits of Work - Director: Apolena Rychlíková
- Inside - Director: Camila Rodríguez Triana
- Instant Dreams - Director: Willem Baptist
- Southern Belle - Directed by: Nicolas Peduzzi
Individual evidence
- ^ Doc Alliance launches online distribution portal . screendaily.com. February 11, 2009.
- ^ Locarno: Iraqi-French director Abbas Fahdel's 'Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)' Scoops Doc Alliance Selection Award . variety.com. August 8, 2015.
- ↑ DAS Awards 2015 . dafilms.com. April 15, 2015.
- ↑ DAS Awards 2016 . dafilms.com. April 15, 2016.
- ↑ DAS Awards 2017 . dafilms.com. April 15, 2017.
- ↑ DAS Awards 2018 . dafilms.com. 4th April 2018.