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Second Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC coming soon

7 Sep 2023

Second Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC coming soon

From 9 to 11 September 2023, the second edition of Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC will take place, the event that promotes the dissemination and development of the documentary genre by bringing together the main players in the field.

The festival will be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and will be launched during the Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival 2023. Projects from South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa will be presented.

The first edition of the Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days at AJB DOC saw the participation of more than twenty projects and the distribution of $60,000 made available by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Al Jazeera Balkans.The prizes for this second edition total $70,000, to which must be added the $20,000 that can be awarded by the event’s partners. In addition to these financial prizes, there are also various other prizes to be awarded during the event.

There were 177 projects submitted to this year’s edition from 52 countries, and 22 titles made it to the shortlist of finalists:

Main Pitch

  • Jana – Mohammad Reza Azadi (Pakistan/ Iran);
  • The Srebrenica Tape – Chiara Sambuchi (Germany);
  • Finding the Way Home – Zakaria Mohamed Ali (UK);
  • December – Grzegorz Paprzycki (Poland);
  • Solo – Amine Boukhris (Tunisia);
  • Con 24000 baci – Alessio Bozzer / Ivana Marinić Kragić (Croatia);
  • A Butterfly Hug – Sally Abobasha (Egypt/ Sudan);
  • The Rabbis’ Intifada – Heather “Chana” Tenzer (USA).

Work in Progress

  • My Mother & I – Dilpak Majeed (Iraq/ Egypt)
  • Bitter Sugar – Ana Barjadze (Georgia);
  • Green Line – The Cat-Child – Sylvie Ballyot/ Fida Bizri (France);
  • Moscow Nights – Irina Maldea/ Brendan Culleton (Ireland/ Romania);
  • Until the Buzzing Stops – Abd al-Kader Habak (UK/ Lebanon);
  • My Mother the State – Ieva Ozolina (Latvia);
  • Life is Beautiful – Mohamed Jabaly (Palestine/ Norway);
  • Dakar Sistaz – Jan Těšitel, Zuzana Kučerová (Czech Republic).

Balkan Stars

  • The Partisan Necropolis – Chris Leslie (UK);
  • I Don’t Want To – Hanis Bagashov (North Macedonia);
  • Rear Admiral – Mladen Ivanović (Croatia/ Montenegro);
  • Another Film About the War, Father & Home – Damir Markovina (Croatia);
  • Cordon – Anton Mezulić (Croatia);
  • I’m Sorry I Didn’t Die – Ana Lalić, Aleksandar Reljić (Serbia).

For further information, please refer to the official event e-catalogue.

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