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One World 2026 announces award winners in Prague
The 28th One World International Human Rights Film Festival closed in Prague on March 19 with Maasja Ooms’ My Word Against Mine winning the International Jury Award for Best Film, capping a 2026 edition that drew 22,843 attendees and reaffirmed the event’s position as one of Central Europe’s key documentary showcases. The Prague leg ran…
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Iranian composer Atena Eshtiaghi takes Germany’s top documentary film music prize for MATERIA PRIMA
Iranian cellist and composer Atena Eshtiaghi has won the 2026 German Documentary Film Music Award for her score to MATERIA PRIMA, Jens Schanze’s documentary on lithium extraction in Bolivia that premiered last week at CPH:DOX. It is the second time Eshtiaghi has received the prize, after winning in 2024 for My Stolen Planet. Presented by…
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Krakow Film Festival reveals new international titles and visual identity
The Krakow Film Festival has revealed a further pair of international documentary competition titles while also rolling out a new visual identity that sharpens the event’s long-running INSIDER positioning. On the programming side, the newly announced films are Bipuljit Basu’s Redlight to Limelight and Michal Kosakowski’s Holofiction, two works that approach cinema as both subject…
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Thessaloniki 2026 awards reveal documentary field shaped by war, memory, and resistance
At the close of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, the 2026 awards painted a vivid picture of a field preoccupied with war, memory, and embodiment. Across the festival’s main competition strands, the top prizes went to films that approached documentary as a way of rendering absence, testimony, and historical fracture perceptible. In the International…
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FIFDH 2026 unveils winners across documentary, fiction, and series
The Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights closed its 24th edition on 14 March after drawing more than 32,000 attendees across a 10-day run. More than 200 guests from art, science, politics and activism took part in this year’s edition. Leading the winners was A Fox Under a Pink Moon, directed by…
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DOK.fest München 2026 opens With Ingeborg Bachmann hybrid portrait
The 41st edition of DOK.fest München will open on 6 May at the Deutsches Theater with the world premiere of Ingeborg Bachmann – Someone Who Was Once Me, a hybrid documentary by Regina Schilling starring Sandra Hüller as the celebrated Austrian writer. Set for a German theatrical release on 25 June, which would have marked…
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East Doc Platform 2026 returns to Prague with full public programme
East Doc Platform will return to Prague from March 19 to 25 for its 15th edition, offering a programme that brings together industry debate, documentary craft and a selective public-facing strand at a moment of wider change for the nonfiction field. Organised by the Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with the One World Festival,…
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FIFDH Impact Days 2026 expands global reach for impact documentary
FIFDH’s Impact Days closed its 2026 edition in Geneva with what organizers described as a record-setting year, underlining the growing institutional weight of impact documentary within the international nonfiction sector. The professional programme brought together more than 220 participants, including 115 social justice, environmental and philanthropic organisations, alongside over 100 filmmakers and impact practitioners. Across…
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One World 2026 reveals full programme across film, vr and public debate
The One World International Human Rights Film Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 2026 edition. Running from 11 to 19 March across ten Prague cinemas, before extending through Prague Echoes and a nationwide rollout until 24 April, the festival will present 106 films in total, including 82 documentaries, 16 fiction features and 8…