CPH:DOX Cancels Opening Over Coronavirus; Dublin & Glasgow Film Fests Wrap; Aardman Animation Promotes Duo – Global Briefs
CPH:DOX, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark’s government responded to the growing spread of
by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s. The festival will otherwise go ahead as planned, with heightened hygiene procedures, unless the government introduces more severe measures to combat Covid-19, organizers said in a statement today.
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary , which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’swon in the Documentary Competition, while the Discovery Award was split between four: Cara Holmes , Claire Byrne , Paddy Slattery and Dónal Ó Héalaí .
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