documentaries
Letters from the Silenced Country
BELARUS: A sombre and shocking glimpse inside the horror that opponents of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko experience.
The Legend of the Desert
SAHARA: recordings of this trip to the Sahara from the 1990s in the family archives
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias
PHILOSOPHY: In the grand conclusion of his Pervert’s Guide trilogy, Slavoj Žižek wants us to embrace the end of the world…
No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
CONFLICT: Halkawt Mustafa’s No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman seizes the toxic grammar of post-9/11 war cinema and…
Concrete Land
PALESTINE: Asmahan Bkerat spent eight years with a landless Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family outside Amman, filming a life built around animals and…
Electing Ms Santa
POLITICS: Raisa Răzmeriță’s debut documentary follows Elena, a Moldovan social activist known locally as Santa, as she moves from solving her…
MIA 2026 unveils 67-Title Official Selection From Record 530 Submissions
MIA Market announces over 530 projects received from 82 countries around the world. 67 projects in the 2026 Official Selection
Baltic Sea Docs marks 30th edition with Riga award ceremony
Baltic Sea Docs marked its 30th anniversary in Riga with eight partner awards for documentary projects from across Europe and…
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum Sets 29-Project Line-up for Jubilee Edition
Twenty-nine documentary projects from 15 countries have been selected for the 2026 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, running October 28 to…
DOK Leipzig retrospective traces the buried archive of Latin America’s Third Cinema
A new retrospective at DOK Leipzig is doing something the festival circuit rarely attempts. Rather than simply screening the canon…
MIA 2026 names first Guests as Rome reshapes its venues
MIA, the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo promoted by ANICA (chaired by Alessandro Usai) and APA (chaired by Chiara Sbarigia) under the…
dok.incubator names eight documentary projects for 2026 workshop
The Visegrad region’s leading rough-cut training programme has revealed its selection for 2026. dok.incubator has chosen eight documentary projects to…
Ora et Labora takes Ji.hlava’s Docu Talent Award in Sarajevo
The Docu Talent Award, top prize at Ji.hlava’s Docu Talents from the East showcase, has gone to Ora et Labora…
Verzió opens applications for 5th Young Critics Workshop
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has opened applications for the fifth edition of its Young Critics Workshop, set…
Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller: «Hope? I call it resistance»
INTERVIEW: Short in runtime, yet sprawling in its political scope. With They’re Here, Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller assembled an…
KineDok: «Decentralisation is absolutely crucial»
INTERVIEW: KineDok’s Juliana Moska talks through a season built on decentralisation, and what changed since she and Walter Nagy took over…
From a VHS library to the Oscars: 25 years of the Institute of Documentary Film
Since 2001, IDF has built routes through which documentary filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe can develop projects, find international partners and…
Remembering Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis (1969-2026)
IN MEMORIUM: Marjane Satrapi, Rasht, Iran 1969 – Paris, France 2026.
Archive fever
ARCHIVES: Why do we have a feverish, compulsive, repetitive desire to return to the origin – to preserve archives and collections?…
Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime
GAZA: On Francesca Albanese’ fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.
Baltic Sea Docs 2025: Cats on the Rooftops, Docs in the Villa
BALTIC SEA DOCS: From war testimonies to playful experiments, BSD 2025 showed why Riga’s compact forum punches above its weight in…
A Conversation on NAZA
GAZA: Truls Lie and Sonya Vseliubska discuss the Venice-winning documentary exposing Israel’s AI-driven system of mass killing in Gaza.
Nobody at this year’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique kept their distance
ROUGH CUTS: Five rough-cut documentaries head to Sarajevo for Docu Rough Cut Boutique 2026, each directed by a filmmaker who couldn’t…
Putting on the Glasses: David Sirota’s Master Plan
The land is strong. So are the people.
Pitch@Moldox: building a documentary pipeline in Chișinău
Letters, tomatos, babushkas: Moldovan documentary in the transnational era
Human dignity and survival in times of conflict
GRIMSTAD ISFF: A seashell, a festival bride, and a handful of tears
Putting on the Glasses: David Sirota’s Master Plan
POLITICS: A Review of the Master Plan Podcast, Season 2: The Kingmakers
The land is strong. So are the people.
REPORT: Reflections on Indigenous films at Hot Docs 2026.
Mark Cousins: «AI would never do that»
INTERVIEW: Mark Cousins built a sixteen-hour documentary, refusing to separate images from the world that makes them. In conversation, he keeps…
«Our cameras are weapons, but peaceful weapons»
Sunny Side of the Doc: Managing Director Aurélie Reman discusses the market’s return, Europe’s documentary funding crisis and the move…
Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza
GAZA: Peter Oborne traces how successive UK governments and much of the British media responded to the war in Gaza, and…
Baltic: The Future of Europe
EUROPE: Oliver Moody’s new book makes an ambitious case for the Baltic as a source of ideas for the whole of…
Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide
PALESTINE: A New York Times memo on banned words becomes the starting point for an argument that language, more than any…
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
POLITICS: From Occupy to Gaza solidarity, waves of mobilisation have filled streets and screens without forcing structural change. What happens when…