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Ji.hlava IDFF unveils first 2025 titles
The 29th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival will run 24 October– 2 November, retaining its 10-day format and presenting roughly 300 films spanning new Czech and international work, experimental cinema, and themed retrospectives. Taiwanese auteur #Tsai Ming-liang# will return to Jihlava to shoot a new entry in his Walker series during the festival, premiering the…
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Nordic/Docs 2025: The complete winners
Nordic/Docs concluded this weekend with an awards ceremony celebrating standout work across shorts, mid-length, and feature documentaries, alongside student honours and craft prizes. Below is the complete list of winners, jury mentions, and special recognitions from this year’s festival. Nordic/Docs Award Winners 2025 Best Documentary (Short, under 30 min) The Border Within Us – (dir.…
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DOK Leipzig 2025 unveils US-focused Retrospective and twin Homages
The 68th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (27 Oct–2 Nov) will pair a historically framed Retrospective on critical U.S. cinema with Homages to filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and the abstract-animation platform Punto y Raya. Titled «Un-American Activities: Films from the ‘Other America’ at the Leipzig Documentary Film Week from 1962 to 1989,»…
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MIA 2025 to spotlight 15 new documentary projects in Rome
MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo will return to Rome from 6–10 October 2025, with a strong emphasis on nonfiction through its Doc Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum. This year’s Doc Co-Production Market will present 15 projects in world premiere, selected from nearly 500 submissions to MIA’s broader Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum. The nonfiction lineup…
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Doclisboa 2025 announces opening/closing films and first program highlights
The 23rd edition of #Doclisboa runs 16–26 October 2025. The festival opens with With Hasan in Gaza, by Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari. Edited from footage shot in 2001—when Aljafari and Hasan Elboubou searched for Abdel Rahim, with whom Aljafari was imprisoned in #Gaza in 1989—the film is presented as a road movie set in a territory…
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IDFA invites Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias as 2025 Guest of Honour
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will present an extensive retrospective of Portuguese filmmaker, curator, and academic Susana de Sousa Dias, highlighting her distinctive approach to archival cinema and political memory. De Sousa Dias has gained international recognition for her films examining dictatorship, colonial legacies, and collective memory through innovative use of archival materials.…
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Last Call: FIFDH seeks Impact Documentary films with 19 September deadline
The Festival International du Film et Forum sur les Droits Humains (FIFDH), Geneva’s international human rights film festival, has issued a final call for submissions to its expanded industry program, with applications due by Friday, 19 September. The festival’s #Impact Days# program bridges the gap between documentary creators and influential organisations within Geneva’s network of…
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29th Baltic Sea Docs wraps in Riga with eight industry awards
The 29th Baltic Sea Docs closed on 7 September after a week of workshops, pitching and screenings, awarding eight documentary projects from the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Forum manager #Zane Balčus# said the event’s preparatory workshop and partnerships continue to anchor BSD as a key regional platform for creative documentaries. Awarded…
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Porto/Post/Doc unveils 2025 theme and dual filmmaker spotlights
Porto/Post/Doc has announced key strands for its 2025 edition, running 20–29 November in Porto. The programme foregrounds mobility, memory, and archives through a new thematic cycle, «The Time of a Journey,» and a twin focus on filmmakers #Lina Soualem# and #Andrei Ujică#, both slated to attend for introductions and masterclasses. Extending the festival’s three-year framework…