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MIA 2026 unveils 67-Title Official Selection From Record 530 Submissions
MIA Market announces over 530 projects received from 82 countries around the world. 67 projects in the 2026 Official Selection
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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 the Czech programme this March.
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«Our cameras are weapons, but peaceful weapons»
Sunny Side of the Doc: Managing Director Aurélie Reman discusses the market’s return, Europe’s documentary funding crisis and the move from La Rochelle to Strasbourg.
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«We need to reframe innovation»
SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Donata von Perfall sees the documentary industry under pressure, yet far from exhausted. Ahead of Sunny Side of the Doc 2026, she speaks about physical markets, digital-first work, brand ethics and the need for practical collaboration.
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«We want to be an event where… valuable, long-lasting creative professional friendships are forged, resulting in extraordinary films»
KRAKOW FF: As KFF Industry returns to Krakow in 2026, Katarzyna Wilk discusses the movement between Polish documentary, international festival circuits, Ukrainian projects ,and the long-term relationships that allow films to travel beyond recognition alone.
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«Imagine you are a child of an executioner and a victim at the same time»
INTERVIEW: In Last Letters From My Grandma, Olga Lucovnicova turns a box of family letters into a reckoning with Soviet memory, migration, silence and the war in Ukraine. Speaking with Modern Times Review, she reflects on language, trauma and the family as a contested historical archive.
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Verzió DocLab 2026 Opens Call for Emerging European Documentary Projects
Verzió DocLab has opened applications for its 2026 edition, inviting emerging European documentary filmmakers to apply for a five-day development programme focused on editing, story construction and industry presentation. Now in its 11th edition, the Budapest-based lab will take place from 14 to 18 November 2026 and is aimed at directors working on their first…
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«The house could still hold pain, but it could also hold another future»
INTERVIEW: A return to a house left behind in exile becomes an excavation of what cannot be easily restored. In Where the Silence Is Heard, Gabriela Pena and Picho García trace how memory, fear, and absence continue to structure intimacy across generations.
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«It was the people and not the authorities»
INTERVIEW: Ada Solomon on Romanian cinema, documentary, and institutional failure.
