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A foursome of Sundance titles (Position Among the Stars, The Interrupters, Hell and Back Again and Senna) and a trio of titles that were launched at Tribeca (Clio Bernard’s The Arbor), Cannes 2010 (Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light) and SXSW (Tristan Patterson’s Dragonslayer) lead the noms with four a piece for this year's five edition of the Cinema Eye Honors -- the annual awards group that honors docu films in directing, editing, design and production tech categories.

The European Film Awards have named the three documentary film candidates earlier yesterday for the aptly titled the European Documentary category. Among the trio we find the familiar pair that stretched between Cannes/TIFF with Janus Metz's award-winning Armadillo and Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light. Completing the noms is Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen's Steam of Life from sauna loving nation of Finland (even small apartments have a built in saunas) and the shared experience of them.

Doc programmer Thom Powers has assembled what appears to be a vintage offering this year, literally a who's who from the documentary field with world preems from Naomi Kawase, Errol Morris (see pic), Ondi Timoner, Alex Gibney, Kim Longinotto and Werner Herzog, while adding to the mix a foursome of must see documentaries from Cannes with Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light, Janus Metz's Armadillo and Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym.

We have the press books for Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Hideo Nakata's Chatroom, Cheol So Jang's Bedevilled, Cristi Puiu's Aurora, Katell Quillevéré's Un Poison violent, Gust Vandenberghe's Little Baby Jesus of Flandr and Diego Lerman's La Mirada invisible (pic above).

Docu-helmer Sacha Jenkins will see his Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues lead the TIFF DOCS section in 2022 with the privileged opening night spot....