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WRITING RESIDENCY EURASIADOC IN BISHKEK
The Eurasiadoc writing residency took place in December 2025 in Bishkek in collaboration with Umut Doc.
12 authors from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan were able to develop their project with our trainers Samuel Aubin and Vladimir Léon for 10 days.
This workshop is part of the documentary section of the international Horizons Médias project, implemented by CFImedias with the support of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
LAUNCH WORKSHOP FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF THE IMPALA PROJECT
The launch workshop for the second phase of the Impala project took place from August 26 to 29 in Lomé. The CNA-TOGO, representing the Impala project in Togo, welcomed 24 representatives of the associations supporting the IMPALA project, from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Guinea, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, the Central African Republic and France.
The partners exchanged experiences from the first phase of the project and the activities that will be developed in the second phase until the end of 2027.
Objective: to strengthen the role of African documentary film as a tool for awareness, expression and development.
Phase 2 of the Impala project (2025-2027) is supported by AFD – Agence Française de Développement, International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), FRENCH INSTITUTE and City of Paris et ASKY.
Partners from Central Africa, West Africa and France : ARDC – Association of Cameroonian Documentary Filmmakers, Central African Traveling Digital Cinema, 3C – Club of Congolese Filmmakers, AFCC – Association of Congolese Women Filmmakers, Gabon Ciné Doc, Africadoc Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal Traveling Digital Cinema, ATCNA – Togolese Association of Traveling Digital Cinema, Lumière des Tropiques (Guinea), Ciné Doc Benin, Docmonde and the Varan Workshops.
The film Blueberry Dreams by Elene Mikaberidze, produced by Iota Production, Wide and Parachute Films with the support of Tënk.fr was presented as part of the MEETINGS OF EUROPEAN CINEMAS in collaboration with Docmonde.
The film was developed in an Eurasiadoc writing residency in Georgia in 2018 in collaboration with Opyodoc, and then the director presented her project at the Eurasiadoc Co-production Meetings in Yerevan in 2019.
Elene Mikaberidze was present to talk to us about her film in Aubenas.
Thanks to MEETINGS OF EUROPEAN CINEMAS, to Elene Mikaberidze and Baptiste Brunner of Wide Productions!
CALLS FOR PROJECTS
THE PROJECTIONS
Docmonde was present at the General Assembly of Documentary Film – Lussas to accompany the screening of the selected films:
Forgetting kills twice by Pierre-Michel Jean in the presence of the director produced by The After Image.
Kouté Vwa by Maxime Jean-Baptiste in the presence of co-writer Audrey Jean-Baptiste and director of photography Arthur Lauters.
Films supported by Docmonde
Congratulations to Derwha Kasunzu and Boubakar Gakou Touré for their selection in the “Perspectives” section at FESPACO.
Catcher by Derwha Kasunzu is produced by Les films du Djabadjah in co-production with Wide Productions and BIMPA Production.
Klema de Boubakar Gakou Toure produced by Bassy Konate, The Films of the 7th.
