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Thessaloniki 2026 Announces first titles spanning Faithfull, Novak, Welsh, and Brookner restorations
The 28th edition of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival will take place from 5 to 15 March 2026, opening its programme with a first slate that foregrounds artistic legacy, cultural memory, and the porous boundary between public image and private life. The festival has also unveiled its official poster, created by Greek visual artist Alexandros…
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FIFDH 2026 announces opening and closing films and new media partnerships
The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) returns to Geneva from 6–15 March 2026 with an edition explicitly shaped by the instability of «the real» as a civic category. Set against what the festival describes as rising #fascism alongside geopolitical, environmental, social, and technological upheaval, the 24th FIFDH positions cinema as both…
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«Wild Roses» brings Slovenian women’s cinema to the 37th Trieste Film Festival
The Trieste Film Festival, Italy’s long-running showcase for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe, will return for its 37th edition from 16–24 January 2026, with film screenings, documentaries, shorts, masterclasses and talks across the city. This year’s «Wild Roses» programme, the festival’s annual focus on women filmmakers from the region, will spotlight Slovenian directors. Curated…
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FIFDH Impact Days 2026 launches with webinar on building film campaign teams
FIFDH #Impact Days# 2026 will open on Thursday 15 January with an online webinar on how documentary filmmakers and their partners can build effective teams for social change campaigns. Titled «Impact Filmmaking for Social Justice: Do Yourself a Favour — Choose the Right Team!», the 75-minute session runs from 14:00 to 15:15 CET and is…
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Trieste announces opening/closing films for 2026 festival
The 37th Trieste Film Festival, billed by organizers as Italy’s leading showcase for Central and Eastern European cinema, will run from January 16–24, 2026, with a double opening led by new films from Agnieszka Holland and Kirill Serebrennikov, and a closing-night screening of Ildikó Enyedi’s latest feature. The festival will open on January 16 with…
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Institute of Documentary Film launches applications for 2026 Short Pitch Programme
The Institute of Documentary Film‘s Short Pitch Programme returns in May 2026 as an industry-facing platform for short documentary films (up to 25 minutes) from Central and Eastern Europe, supporting projects at either development or rough-cut stage. Hosted during the 23rd Millennium Docs Against Gravity in Warsaw, Poland (8–17 May 2026), the program will select…
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Sunny Side of the Doc to pause in 2026 amid funding and operational pressures
Doc Services, the organizer of Sunny Side of the Doc, said it will not hold the documentary industry market in 2026, citing the loss of its main European grant, a decline in key financial support, and organizational constraints that it says make it impossible to deliver an event at the level required by today’s global…
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MajorDocs 2025 announces complete winners of 7th edition
MajorDocs has announced the winners of its seventh edition, with jury honors shared for the first time in the festival’s history. The MajorDocs main jury—philosopher Lola López Mondejar, filmmaker Ben Rivers, and sound artist Philippe Ciompi—awarded its top prize *ex aequo* to two documentaries: Songs of Slow Burning Earth by Olha Zhurba and Al Oeste,…
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Porto/Post/Doc 2025: The complete winners
The 2025 Porto/Post/Doc Festival has announced its awards, led by Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer, which won the Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prix for best film in the International Competition. The international jury said the decision was unanimous, and pointed to the film’s poetry and symbolism in crafting a childhood story set in a geography marked…