documentaries
NAZA: The «Real» Story
ISRAEL: An «approved» Israeli reply to Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA borrows its title, its rooftops and its night, and answers…
Menopause Mystery
WOMEN’s HEALTH: Louise Unmack Kjeldsen travels the world to meet the researchers who link menopause to brain health, and then watches a…
The Trap
LEBANON: Al Jazeera’s The Trap follows the 2024 pager attack from Lebanon to Budapest to the White House.
Don’t Ask Me If I Killed
UKRAINE: Ukrainian director and soldier Helena Maksyom presents a raw documentary portraying the atrocities and psychological impact of war while highlighting the…
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
Ji.hlava opens its 30th edition with film on choreographer Jiří Kylián
The 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival begins this Friday, 23 October, in the Czech city of Jihlava. Running until…
BIFED 2026 closes with awards and a call for accountability
The 13th Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary ran from 7 to 11 October and presented four awards on Saturday…
IFFWW 2026 Opens in London with Patricia Clarkson and a World Premiere from the Philippines
The Women and the World International Film Festival runs from 5 to 12 November, opening with Lilly and giving Sigrid…
MIOB In Shorts Award 2026 goes from online vote to Cottbus
Twelve European short films nominated by MIOB member festivals can be streamed and voted on until 15 October, before the…
Krakow Film Festival opens submissions for 67th edition
The festival adds an International Documentary Debut Competition and will select around 200 titles for its 30 May to 6…
FIFDH Impact Days names twelve documentaries for its 2027 Impact Lab
The ninth edition of the Geneva training programme gathers projects from around the world, with subjects ranging from human trafficking…
Six Hungarian films compete at the 23rd Verzió Film Festival
The human rights documentary festival unveils a Hungarian Competition of six features, several by first-time directors, that trace how inherited…
Ji.hlava unveils 350-film programme for its 30th edition
The Czech festival marks its 30th edition from October 23 to November 1 with 350 films, a Trinh T. Minh-ha…
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…
Concrete Turned to Sand: «Cinema gives us the ability to work with duration»
INTERVIEW: Filming at night on 35mm among British Columbia’s oyster farmers, the directors of Concrete Turned to Sand describe how the film…
One World Slovakia: «Human rights do not become optional»
INTERVIEW: Eva Križková, director of the One World festival in Bratislava, explains how the 2026 edition found its funding and why she…
Noor Abed: Small pockets of resistance
PALESTINE: Palestine is one of the most documented lands and peoples. What can be different in filmmaking or art practices to…
Inconvenient Films: «If you bring people who agree, you are talking to a mirror»
INTERVIEW: Gediminas Andriukaitis on twenty years of Inconvenient Films, the Baltic region’s only human-rights documentary festival, and building a programme around impact.
Still rubble rousing at ground zero, righteously
9/11: On the 25th anniversary, two documentaries return to the foot of the towers. The Responders gathers testimony of explosions and calls…
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.
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.
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings
PALESTINE: Ghassan Kanafani, the PFLP editor assassinated in Beirut in 1972, wrote as if from the present. His newly translated political writings…
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…