Nicole Hálová is a documentary editor based in London. She studied film editing at FAMU in Prague. Her most recent work includes All Rivers Spill their Stories to the Sea (dir. Jeanie Finlay), How Deep is Your love (dir. Eleanor Mortimer) which premiered at True/False Film Festival 2025 and My Father And Qaddafi which premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2025. Other films include The Islands and the Whales (2016) (dir: Mike Day), which was nominated for an Emmy and a BAFTA Award, Good Neighbours (2018) (dir: Stella Van Voorst) and Carrousel (2019) (dir: Marina Meijer), which won the Golden Calf award at the Netherlands FF. She was an additional editor on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) (dir: Laura Poitras).
Nicole also collaborated on projects at Forensic Architecture such as The situated testimonies of Grenfell.
EDITOR
SITUATED TESTIMONIES OF GRENFELL
Forensic Architecture
All Rivers Spill their Stories to the Sea
Jeanie Finlay / Documentary / 2026
My Father and Qaddafi
Co-edited with Alessandro Dordoni and Chloë Lambourne
Jihan K / Documentary / 2025 / Venice Film Festival 2025
How Deep Is Your Love
Eleanor Mortimer / 2025 / Documentary / True/False Film Festival 2025 / Hot Docs 2025 / CPHDOX 2025
ANIMA
Josefien van Kooten & Anna Witte / 2024
Devi
Co-edited with Pihl Jandaly
Subina Shrestha / 2024 / Documentary
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
2024 | Special Mention: Best Social Impact Documentary
Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948
Forensic Architecture
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/executions-and-mass-graves-in-tantura-23-may-1948
Cowboy Poets
Mike Day / 2022 / 81 min / USA, UK / Documentary
CIFF/ Zurich film festival / Artistic Vision award winner at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2023
A Travellers Guide
Ton van Zantvoort & Josefien van Kooten /2022/ ND/ Documentary
The Elvermen
Isla Badenoch / 2020 / UK / Documentary
VISION DU REEL, supported by British Council, Film Market + Showcase 2022 /BRITISH SHORTS Film Festival, Berlin 2022 / SHORT OF THE WEEK + VIMEO STAFF PICK, 2021/ CAMERIMAGE Short Documentary Competition 2021 / CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2021 / SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST 2021 (UK Competition)
CORNWALL Film Festival 2021, Best Sound + Music Award/ DOCS IN EXILE, Athens 2021/ UN FOOD X Film Festival 2021/HEBREDIES INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2021
Honds
Josefien van Kooten / 2020 / NEWTON film / NL / Documentary / Netherlands Film Festival
Olivia Arthur and Philipp Ebeling, MAGNUM PHOTOS / 2019 / UK FR / Video installation piece
Marina Meijer / Netherlands / 2019 / 68 min
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary / IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary / GoldenCalf winner for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival
Stella Van Voorst / Netherlands / 2018 / 80 min / Documentary
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary / One World Film Festival
Co-edited with Mary Lampson
Mike Day / 2016 / 83 min / Documentary
Emmy Awards Nomination / 77th Peabody Award / Grand Jury prize at DOC NYC / Best documentary award at RIFF | Reykjavík International Film Festival and Scottish BAFTA nomination
ADDITIONAL EDITING
The Ban
Roisin Agnew /2024/ 27 minutes
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
(Additional editing)
Laura Poitras/ Documentary/2022/
Golden Lion [Winner] Best Film/ Golden Athena [Winner] Best Documentary
Last Days of Summer
(Additional editing)
/Karl Friis Forchhammer / 2020 / Denmark, Poland / 56 min / Documentary / CPH:DOX 2020
WOOD
(Additional editing)
Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger / 95 min / Austria, Germany, Romania /
2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
CONSULTING
Boxes From Georgia
Gvantsa Meparishvilli /Georgia/ 2025
All You See
Niki Padidar /Netherlands / 2022 / 72 min
Life is Dream
Vanessa Abajo Perez / Basalt Film / 2020
SOUND RECORDIST / PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Cowboy Poets / Mike Day / Documentary
The Tour / Mike Day / Documentary / in production
Amidlisa / Antoine Tassin / Documentary series / FR,USA / 2018
EDUCATION
MA Film editing, FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) 2019
BA Film editing, FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
SPŠG Hellichova, Photography and media