Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the world-class nonfiction film festival in Poland, has announced its main competition lineup, with the winner earning instant qualification for the Academy Awards.
A dozen features will compete for the Grand Prix – the Bank Millennium Award. In addition, the three-person jury – comprised of Oscar nominated filmmaker Talal Derki (Of Fathers and Sons), Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Lea Glob (Apolonia, Apolonia), and Oscar-nominated producer Jessica Hargrave (Come See Me in the Good Light) — will award prizes for Best Cinematography and Best Editing in the Main Competition. A separate three-person FIPRESCI jury will award a critics prize in the Main Competition.
MDAG, the second-largest documentary film festival in Europe, runs May 8-17 across seven cities in Poland: Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź and Bydgoszcz. It continues online from May 19-June 1.
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