Mediha (2023)
The 40th IDA Documentary Awards announced nominees. Nominated for Best Feature Documentary are Agent of Happiness, Black Box Diaries, Dahomey, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, No Other Land, Queendom, Seeking Mavis Beacon, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane and The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.
The International Documentary Association unveiled the Best Feature Shortlist and Best Short Shortlist for this year’s IDA Documentary Awards.
In Hasan Oswald’s documentary Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl name Mediha, turns her camera on herself to process her trauma after surviving ISIS captivity.
Hasan Oswald’s Mediha bested 36 films from 19 countries to take home the Grand Prize Award at 29th Stony Brook Film Festival.
The 10th Mammoth Lakes Film Festival announced the award winners with prizes going to Atikamekw Suns, Mediha, and The Complex Forms.
This year’s tenth anniversary edition of Mammoth Lakes Film Festival opens with the California Premiere of Never Look Away, directed by Lucy Lawless.
2nd DC/DOX documentary film festival unveiled the lineup including films on Christopher Reeve, Luther Vandross, Ani DeFranco and designer Diane Von Furstenberg.
Mediha, a heartfelt and intimate documentary of a teenage Yazidi girl, recently returned from ISIS captivity, opens the 28th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London.
The 21st annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival returns February 16-25, 2024 in Missoula, Montana featuring over 150 nonfiction films
Clair Titley’s The Contestant will open the 14th DOC NYC documentary festival, running in-person November 8-16, 2023.