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
Gaza
Gaza is by many called the world’s biggest prison
What does it mean to watch?
PANEL: At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?
Generation Gaza: Among the Israelis in India
ISRAEL: Among Himalaya backpackers, Israelis process 7 October, Gaza memories, and identity crisis—numbed by drugs, haunted by politics, searching elusive peace.
Dokufest: Guardians of Democracy in Past Imperfect
DEMOCRACY: In light of the Western political discourse increasingly revealing its own hypocrisy, four DokuFest short films revisit the past, uncovering details that cast new light on the shaken image of today’s so-called liberal order.
Francesca Albanese: From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide
PALESTINE: Francesca Albanese’s UN report on Israel’s occupation of Palestine, widening culpability to global enablers and calling for prosecutable corporate accountability.
Gaza: Journalists Under Fire
GAZA: History is being erased in real time, and those who try to record it are dying with their archives.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
GAZA: Forensically detailed, utterly balanced and absolutely damning, a British documentary banned by the BBC should be required viewing for every craven Western leader that supports Israel’s war on Palestinians.
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
GAZA: Another journalist killed… but this time in the spotlight of the Cannes Film Festival.
Perfect Victims
PALESTINE: In Palestine, the struggle is not only for land but for the right to be seen as fully human.
The occupation is in the frame
PALESTINE: Filmmakers documented the occupation for decades. These films saw the war long before the world pretended it began in October 2023.
Photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed in Gaza, days before Cannes premiere of film featuring her work
Fatima Hassouna, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist who has chronicled the claustrophobic dignity of life in the #Gaza Strip, was killed