Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival

  • Bringing back Jesus, with an AR-15

    Bringing back Jesus, with an AR-15

    RELIGION: Power, money, and religion intertwine as the influential US Christian fundamentalist movement fights for the end of the world.

  • Can justice be brought?

    Can justice be brought?

    CONFLICT: A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future...

  • AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners for fifth documentary festival

    AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners for fifth documentary festival

    The fifth Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival has ended with the international jury deciding on its best film and other awards. The top award for the best film in the Competition program was awarded to Gorki Glaser-Müller, the screenwriter and director of the film Children of the Enemy. The unanimous decision was bestowed…

  • AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners of first Industry Days platform

    AJB DOC Film Festival announces winners of first Industry Days platform

    After three days of Industry activities, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival has announced the complete winners of its inaugural Industry Days platform. The event ran from 10 to 12 September, and 32 projects from Southeast Europe, Caucasus, the Middle East, and North Africa (MENA) region were presented. Ultimately, the top prize went to Srđan…

  • Fifth AJB DOC Film Festival opens with Susanna Regina Meures’ ‘Girl Gang’

    Fifth AJB DOC Film Festival opens with Susanna Regina Meures’ ‘Girl Gang’

    The fifth edition of the AJB DOC International Documentary Film Festival opened last night with the screening of the film Girl Gang (dir. Susanna Regina Meures). After the video retrospective of the AJB DOC Film Festival, Edhem Fočo, the director of AJB DOC, addressed the audience. His speech was followed by the official opening of…

  • Human safari

    Human safari

    CONFLICT: The story of wealthy foreigners who turned besieged Sarajevo into a human safari, paying high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents.

  • Behind the scenes

    Behind the scenes

    COVID-19: The Swedish pandemic approach has been discussed internationally, with it its main figures both the targets of hate campaigns and personality cults.

  • «Bosnia & Herzegovina needed a significant festival of documentary films, and now I hope we have it»

    «Bosnia & Herzegovina needed a significant festival of documentary films, and now I hope we have it»

    AJB DOC: Modern Times Review spoke with its Director Edhem Fočo on the history and impact of Al Jazeera Balkans, the kick start to its Industry Days platform and more.

  • AJB DOC Film Festival unveils full programme & awards for first Industry Days platform

    AJB DOC Film Festival unveils full programme & awards for first Industry Days platform

    Al Jazeera Documentary channel has launched its Industry Days platform, which will take place from 10 – 12 September within this year’s fifth Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival. Over its three days, projects from the Balkans, Caucasus, Southeast Europe and the Middle East-North Africa region will be presented, providing participants the opportunity to connect…

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