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…
One World Festival Slovakia 2026 Takes BONDS as Its Theme
The 27th One World International Documentary Film Festival opens in Bratislava on 20 October with BONDS as its theme and…
Buzzies Awards 2026 Nominees Announced by WCSFP
Nominees for nine of the 16 Buzzies Awards categories have been announced, including the debut Best Digital-First category, with winners…
MIA Market returns to Rome with finance at the centre
Rome’s market for film, series and animation comes back to Via Veneto with more than 630 submissions, a new European…
BIFED turns 13 with accountability as its question
BIFED’s 13th edition runs 7 to 11 October 2026 on Bozcaada, built around accountability and ecological justice amid a difficult…
Inconvenient Films Marks 20 Years «Moved By Cinema»
Lithuania’s Inconvenient Films turns twenty this October under the theme Moved By Cinema, with a retrospective shaped by its own…
Thirty Years of Ji.hlava, Told Through Films That Moved Law and Public Debate
The 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival marks its anniversary with a section devoted to films that altered law and…
Docs Beyond Names Nine Projects for First Edition
The Institute of Documentary Film has named the nine Czech projects joining the first edition of Docs Beyond: Audience, Impact…
CPH:LAB 2026/2027 Reveals Nine Immersive Projects
The nine immersive documentary projects entering the 2026/2027 edition of CPH:DOX’ CPH:LAB programme, with prototypes due at the festival next…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…