We are happy to announce that the second session of this year's Ex Oriente Film workshop will be held for the first time in Germany, in collaboration with our festival, from 6 to 11 October 2023.

A total of 12 creative documentary feature films and five docuseries projects are participating in this year’s intensive sessions. Among the tutors of the second session are VP and Executive Producer of Documentaries for HBO Europe Hanka Kastelicová, sales agent Manuela Buono (Slingshot Films), producer Erik Winker (CORSO Film), and documentary film editor and story consultant Yael Bitton.

The Ex Oriente Film workshop is a project-based training programme from the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF). The three-module creative lab offers a comprehensive support for creative documentary projects in development and early production from Central and Eastern Europe. The third session of this year’s workshop will take place during the East Doc Platform in Prague in March 2024, in partnership with the One World International Human Rights Film Festival.

We look forward to welcome the participants and tutors here in Leipzig!

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