Cutting Through Rocks
IRAN: Set in rural Iran yet reaching far beyond it, this is a quietly incendiary portrait of female autonomy under pressure.
MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival
Located in Melgaço, Portugal
Organized by the Municipality of Melgaço and the AO NORTE Association, MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival intends to promote and disclose social and ethnographic cinema, reflecting with the films about identity, memory and border, and to contribute for an audiovisual archive about the territory.
Winners announced at 11th Edition of MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival
The 11th edition of #MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival concluded on 3 August with the announcement of this
Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
Cutting Through Rocks
IRAN In a conservative Iranian village, one divorced woman’s political rise sparks fierce resistance, gendered repression, and bold feminist defiance.
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
SYRIA: Life in post-siege Homs is marked by rubble, silence, and voices determined to remember, mourn, and somehow endure.
MDOC Melgaço brings record premieres and new critics’ prize to Portugal
The #MDOC# – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival returns this summer with a bold and urgent lineup that spans continents,
MDOC Melgaço returns for 11th Edition, spotlighting documentary and community heritage
From 28 July to 3 August 2025, the 11th edition of MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival returns. Set in
Ancestral Visions of the Future
EXILE: Blending docufiction and philosophy, Lemohang Mosese redefines home, exile, and human interconnectedness through Ubuntu and radical decolonial storytelling.
Mr Nobody Against Putin
RUSSIA: How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
‘My Stolen Planet’ triumphs at MDOC 2024
The 10th edition of the #MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival concluded with the announcement of the 2024 winners.
