Dokufest
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Special Operation
UKRAINE: Unfiltered surveillance of wartime routine builds toward an unseen horror.
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DokuFest unveils global documentary lineup for ‘View From the World’ strand
DokuFest has announced a powerful and wide-ranging selection of 12 films for its much-anticipated View From the World strand, showcasing some of the year’s most daring and politically resonant nonfiction cinema. Leading the program are two urgent films about the ongoing Ukraine–Russia war. 2000 Meters to Andriivka, directed by Oscar-winner Mstyslav Chernov, offers a harrowing…
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DokuFest 2025 unveils full competition lineup with record submissions
DokuFest, Kosovo’s leading documentary and short film festival, has officially announced the full competition slate for its 22nd edition, taking place from August 4 to 12 in the historic city of Prizren. This year, the festival received a record-breaking 3,481 film submissions from 111 countries—a 22% increase from 2024. A total of 104 films have…
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Unwelcomed
MIGRANTS: This ambitious debut documentary, years in the making, captures Venezuela’s migrant crisis and Chilean radicalisation in urgent cinematic testimony.
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Only on Earth
NATURE: Robin Petré’s cinematically sprawling Only on Earth journeys deep into southern Galicia as wildfires rage on.
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The Mountain Won’t Move
NATURE: The poetic rhythms of shepherding life in North Macedonia amidst breathtaking mountain landscapes and modern encroachments.
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The Helsinki Effect
DIPLOMACY: With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck's account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
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Facing War
NATO: If this opening film at CPH:DOX was screened 30 years ago, we would have bought this narrative. But now, we have alternative media, independent authors, investigative journalists, Wikileaks and solidarity communities outside the military media research community.
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The Tree of Authenticity
ECOLOGY: Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.