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Hungary’s film sector demands more than cosmetic reform
Hungary’s film community is no longer speaking in the polite language of sectoral adjustment. Filmreform2026, a new initiative backed by major industry bodies, creative organisations and film schools, has released a white paper calling for a transparent, politically independent and professionally led film financing system. Presented on 8 May at the Eurocine Festival, the proposal…
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Encounters 2026 sets early Oscar contenders alongside major African premieres
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will return in June with one of its most internationally visible lineups in recent years, bringing Oscar-tipped titles, major festival winners, African premieres and four new South African features to audiences in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The festival’s 28th edition runs from 4 to 14 June 2026, with…
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DOK.fest München 2026 winners highlight cinema of structural reckoning
DOK.fest München closed its 41st edition with a winners list that underlined documentary cinema’s continuing turn toward questions of structural responsibility, from global finance and colonial memory to migration, illness and labour. The festival awarded €64,200 across its competitions and partner prizes, with the three VIKTORIA awards anchoring the 2026 honours. Bernard Weber and Martin…
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique selects five projects for 2026 edition
Docu Rough Cut Boutique has announced the five documentary projects selected for its 2026 edition, with works from South-East Europe and the Caucasus set to take part in a three-module programme across Sofia, online and Sarajevo. The initiative is created and organised by Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days and the Balkan Documentary Center, and…
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Short Pitch Program returns to Warsaw with seven CEE documentary projects
The Short Pitch Program 2026 returned to Warsaw on 10 May as part of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, bringing seven emerging short documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe into contact with sales agents, distributors, festival representatives and other industry decision-makers. Organised by the Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with Millennium Docs Against Gravity,…
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KineDok unveils 2026/2027 collection across five-country network
KineDok has announced its 2026/2027 collection, unveiling a slate of 18 documentary titles, including three VR works, that will circulate across its transnational screening network from May 2026 through April 2027. The programme will be available to venues in Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Romania, continuing the initiative’s long-running effort to connect contemporary documentary cinema…
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dok.incubator opens Visegrad call for 2026 rough-cut workshop
dok.incubator has opened applications for a dedicated 2026 regional workshop aimed at documentary projects from the Visegrad countries, marking a renewed format for the long-running rough-cut training initiative. The dok.incubator REG 2026 programme is open to projects from Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, as well as co-productions with those countries, and is designed for teams…
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Chile joins Colombia for first Cannes Docs regional showcase
Chile will return to Cannes Docs in 2026 through a new regional format, joining Colombia for the inaugural Docs-in-Progress Chile & Colombia Showcase at the Marché du Film. The showcase will take place during the Cannes market, running from 12 to 20 May, and will present four Latin American non-fiction projects at an advanced stage…
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Ukrainian feature wins best film at goEast 2026
Roman Ostrovskyi’s Ukrainian feature Clouds Move with Great Speed has won the Golden Lily for Best Film at the 26th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which took place in Wiesbaden from 21 to 27 April 2026. The festival’s first edition under new director Rebecca Heiler presented 76 films and welcomed more than…