Forget Me Not
MEMORY: Visual essays that probe memory and denial, arguing that oblivion may comfort the vulnerable but doesn’t avert violence.
MakeDox
Located in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
An onion-scented multilayered platform. Planted by doc-makers and doc-lovers imbued with the Mediterranean spirit. Creativity is its soul mate, the documentary – its favorite language. It has been growing to tower over conformity and to sharpen the senses of quality and critical sight. MakeDox.
Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!
HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
MakeDox 2025: The complete winners
Skopje’s #MakeDox wrapped its 16th edition on 28 August with a strong slate and clear jury statements. The Onion Award
Unanimal
ANIMAL RIGHTS: Isabella Rossellini narrates a reflective essay-film questioning human dominance, collapsing categories of pet, livestock, wildlife, and revealing systems of control.
Coexistence, My Ass!
PEACE: Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
Makedox announces film programme for 2025 «Who cares about reality?» theme
The 16th MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival will take place from 21 to 28 August 2025, presenting 75 documentaries across
9-Month Contract
CAPITALISM: It’s not just Georgia where are women trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.
Verzió DocLab 2025 opens applications for 10th edition
The Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has announced the 10th edition of #Verzió DocLab#, its five-day documentary development
Only on Earth
NATURE: Robin Petré’s cinematically sprawling Only on Earth journeys deep into southern Galicia as wildfires rage on.
The Mountain Won’t Move
NATURE: The poetic rhythms of shepherding life in North Macedonia amidst breathtaking mountain landscapes and modern encroachments.
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.
The Propagandist
PROPAGANDA: The rise and fall of a filmmaker who reshaped Dutch cinema by serving Nazi propaganda during World War II.