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
The Tale of Silyan
NATURE: The Oscar-nominated Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska returns with a luminous documentary fable that extends her ongoing meditation on a pressing homeland concern: the ecological and economic troubles that drive migration.
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
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
The Dialogue Police
HUMAN RIGHTS: An experiment in protecting democracy and free speech, while maintaining public order, Sweden’s Dialogue Police mediate between protestors and regular police to reduce tension in public gatherings.
The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
GENDER: Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.
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
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
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
The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
CONTROL: A corporate spy embeds with environmental activists, flips (sort of), and drags an asbestos empire into view. What follows isn’t a clean exposé but a knot of moral grey zones.
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