51° Visions du Réel

Visions du Réel is one of the world’s premiere film festivals, with a focus on new voices in cinema that expand and challenge the documentary form.

⭐ World Premiere in Intl Feature Film Competition
🏆 Special Mention for Best International Film

24° Málaga Film Festival

Málaga Film Festival is one of Spain’s premiere film festivals, screening Spanish-language cinema.

🏆 Awarded Silver Biznaga Prize for Best Director

IDFA 2020

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam.

⭐ Best of Festivals Selection

UK Cinema Release

Our UK cinema release in 2021 included screenings at the Barbican Theatre in London, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, Glasgow Film Theatre in Scotland, HOME in Manchester and Arthouse Crouch End.

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Colombia Cinema Release

Our Colombia cinema release in 2021 included screenings at the Cinemateca de Bogotá and the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín.

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Netherlands Cinema Release

Our Netherlands cinema release in 2020-2021 was in arthouse cinemas across the country, booked with our hybrid cinema-streaming partner Picl.

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60° Krakow Film Festival

Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest events in the world dedicated to documentary and short films.

⭐ International Film Competition Selection

42° Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival is the only international film festival recognized by the FIAPF in the Arab world and Africa, as well as the oldest.

⭐Special Screening Selection

37° Festival de Cine de Bogotá

Festival de Cine de Bogotá began in 1984 as a need to reward the achievements of Colombian Cinema; the festival is now an international selection of films.

🏆 Awarded Best Film About Art

Festival de la Crítica Cinematográfica de Caracas

The Festival de la Crítica Cinematográfica de Caracas is Venezuela’s top festival championing artistic international cinema, founded by the Venezuela’s top film critics.

🏆 Awarded Best Direction Prize
🏆 Awarded Grand Jury Prize for Best Film

17° Festival del Cine Venezolano

Festival del Cine Venezolano is the premiere film festival in Venezuela.

🏆 Awarded Best Cinematography
🏆 Awarded Best Director of Photography

Doc Alliance Award 2020 (nomination)

The Doc Alliance Award is a collaboration of programmers from seven significant European festivals, whom select one significant documentary work from the year's festivals.

⭐ Visions du Réel’s nomination for the Doc Alliance Award

DOC NYC

DOC NYC is the country's largest documentary film festival, held each year in New York City.

⭐ Encore Selection

Dokufest Kosovo

DokuFest is an international documentary festival held in the Kosovo city of Prizren, founded in 2002.

⭐ International Competition Selection

Perso Film Festival

PerSo Film Festival, set in Perugia, Italy, focuses on the films that create new bridges between genres.

🏆 Awarded Special Mention for Perso Award

22° Lucania Film Festival

Lucania Film Festival is the top festival of the Basilicata region of Italy.

🏆 Awarded Honorary Mention for Best Film

Garden Route Intl Film Festival

GRIFF is a festival on the Western Cape of South Africa celebrating international cinema.

🏆Awarded Best Direction Prize to Mo Scarpelli
🏆Awarded Best Actor Prize to Jorge Thielen Armand

29° Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine

The Biarritz Latin American Film Festival is a benchmark festival for Latin American cinema.

⭐ Avant-Premières Selection

Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine

Transcinema is a major Latin American showcase for contemporary, avant-garde, non-fiction cinema, held in Lima since 2013.

⭐ TransAndes Competition Selection

Cucalorus Film Festival

Cucalorus is a non-competitive independent film festival in North Carolina, USA, that supports innovative artists and encouraging creative exchange.

🏆 Opening Night Film

Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine (SANFIC16)

SANFIC, Santiago Festival Internacional de Cinema, is a major film festival in Chile’s capitol.

⭐ Directors in Focus Selection

42° Durban International Film Festival

The Durban Intl Film Festival is the longest-running festival in South Africa, a major showcase of global cinema for African audiences.

⭐ Documentary Feature Competition Selection

Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival is held in Yerevan, Armenia, founded in 2004 by the Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development, the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Journalists.

⭐ Official Selection for International Film Competition

Maryland Film Festival

Maryland Film Festival brings films, filmmakers, and audiences together in a friendly inclusive atmosphere while adding to the larger film dialogue across the world.

Festival de Cinéma de la ville de Québec

Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec in Quebec City, Canada, aims to be a daring event that offers a unique experience to cinema lovers in all its diversity.

Atlanta Film Festival

Atlanta Film Festival is an Academy Award qualifying festival, one of the longest-running festivals in the USA.

⭐ Official Selection for Documentary Feature Competition

San Francisco IndieFest

San Francisco IndieFest showcases the best in independent, alternative, and subversive cinema from around the globe.

⭐ Official Selection for Documentary Feature Competition

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival is the premiere forum for international independent cinema in the area screening films at historic venues in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

⭐ Official Selection for Documentary Feature Competition

London Migration Film Festival

The London Migration Film Festival is hosted by Migration Collective, which organizes events aiming to challenge the current narrow rhetoric on migration and bring together members of different communities.

Detroit Freep Film Festival

Detroit’s Freep Film Festival, run by Michigan’s leading newspaper The Detroit Free Press, is a film festival celebrating documentary films.

⭐Documentary Competition Selection

St. Louis International Film Festival

St. Louis International Film Festival is the American city’s premiere cinema festival with more than 26,000 viewers of films.

⭐ Documentary Feature Competition Selection

32° Cinéfest Sudbury - Canada

Cinéfest Sudbury is one of Canada’s premiere film events, hosting over 35,000 attendees each year.

⭐Documentary Competition Selection

Washington DC Environmental Film Festival

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films since 1993.

Festival Internacional de Cine y Memoria Común de Nador (FICMEC)

FICMEC is hosted in Morocco; in 2020 the festival focused on cinema about Latin American identity and memory.

⭐Documentary Competition Selection

Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

MLFF is a premier festival in California, USA, dedicated to discovering and supporting the next generation of filmmakers.

MAFIZ Spanish Screenings

As 24° Málaga Film Festival’s winner of the Silver Biznaga Prize for Best Direction, the film screened in the MAFIZ Spanish Screenings for film industry in 2021.

Busan International Film Festival - Asian Film Market

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) is an industry film market at Busan Intl Film Festival. EL FATHER was available in the library / screened here in 2020. Inquire about the film’s Asian sales availability with us here >