The award ceremony of the 8th Doc Alliance Selection Award will take place for the first time at the Festival del film Locarno during the Industry Days. The name of the new award winner will be announced on 8 August, in the presence of Doc Alliance festival directors and the jury.

The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote quality creative documentary films. Since 2008, the Doc Alliance platform awards the best European documentary film selected independently by each of the platform’s festival members.

The following films compete for the Doc Alliance Selection Award 2015:

• Homeland (Iraq Year Zero); Abbas Fahdel (IQ, 2015, 334´) nominated by Visions du Réel
• Walking Under Water; Eliza Kubarska (UK/PL/DE, 2014, 90´) nominated by Docs Against Gravity FF
• Stranded in Canton; Måns Månsson (SE/DK/CN, 2014, 72´) nominated by CPH:DOX
• Illusion; Sofia Marques (PT, 2014, 115´) nominated by Doclisboa
• I Am the People; Anna Roussillon (FR, 2014, 110´) nominated by Jihlava IDFF
• Haunted; Liwaa Yazji (DE/SY, 2014, 113´) nominated by FID Marseille
• All Things Ablaze; Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov (UA, 2014, 90´) nominated by DOK Leipzig

www.dafilms.com/selection