dok.incubator has announced the eight feature documentaries selected for its 2025 development workshop, spotlighting emerging voices and urgent themes from across five continents. The films explore issues of identity, political transformation, environmental anxiety, and artistic resistance.

Over the next eight months, the selected teams will participate in dok.incubator’s acclaimed rough-cut lab, working closely with international editors, producers, and sales agents to prepare for festival premieres in late 2025 or 2026.

Selected Projects

• Alias La Mona (US, CZ) – Directed by Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico
  A former FARC fighter attempts to reconcile motherhood and trauma as she leaves the jungle behind in post-conflict Colombia.
• Brothers in the Hunt (LV) – Directed by Ieva Ozolina
  A debt collection agency founded by ex-convicts operates in legal grey zones while confronting the personal toll of aging and change.
• Crocodile (NG, NZ) – Directed by Pietra Brettkelly and The Critics
  Nine young Nigerians turn to sci-fi filmmaking to express themselves amid religious and political tensions, in a 12-year observational project.
• La pietà (ES, IS, LT) – Directed by Rafa Molés
  A lyrical excavation of ecological and spiritual memory through the story of seven siblings who once lived near Europe’s largest glacier.
• River Dreams (KZ, FR, CH) – Directed by Kristina Mikhailova
  A meditation on womanhood and nationhood, following the voices of young women along a Kazakhstani river.
• Smoking Shores (UK) – Directed by David Roland Warwick
  Surfers find meaning in the waves below the UK’s last major steelworks, as industrial decline casts long shadows.
• Stardust (NO, DK) – Directed by Elisabeth Rasmussen
  A jazz musician and amateur geologist embarks on a poetic quest to prove that cosmic dust exists in everyday places.
• What Would Mom Say? (HU) – Directed by Olivér Márk Tóth
  A rural teenager becomes a rap star and battles addiction as his lyrics propel him into the public eye.