Millennium Docs Against Gravity
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Short Pitch Program returns to Warsaw with seven CEE documentary projects
The Short Pitch Program 2026 returned to Warsaw on 10 May as part of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, bringing seven emerging short documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe into contact with sales agents, distributors, festival representatives and other industry decision-makers. Organised by the Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with Millennium Docs Against Gravity,…
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MDAG Industry 2026 centres marginal voices and structural change
The 2026 edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity expands its industry ambitions with a programme that positions documentary as a structural intervention into who gets seen, heard, and financed. Running from 7 to 11 May at the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, MDAG Industry consolidates the rapid evolution of the industry since 2021 into a…
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Doc Alliance taps Armenia’s Golden Apricot Festival as 2026 guest partner
Doc Alliance has added the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) to its lineup as the network’s guest festival for 2026. The move also signals the wrap of Doc Alliance’s 2025 guest-festival partnership with Punto de Vista. The Yerevan-based festival will plug into Doc Alliance’s internal collaboration calendar, joining the group’s working sessions and…
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Institute of Documentary Film launches applications for 2026 Short Pitch Programme
The Institute of Documentary Film‘s Short Pitch Programme returns in May 2026 as an industry-facing platform for short documentary films (up to 25 minutes) from Central and Eastern Europe, supporting projects at either development or rough-cut stage. Hosted during the 23rd Millennium Docs Against Gravity in Warsaw, Poland (8–17 May 2026), the program will select…
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Deadlines approaching for two major IDF documentary opportunities for Central and Eastern European filmmakers
Filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have two crucial Institute of Documentary Film opportunities to develop and present their documentary projects on an international stage as deadlines approach for the Ex Oriente Film Workshop 2025 and the Short Pitch Program at Millennium Docs Against Gravity. The Ex Oriente Film Workshop, a highly regarded training initiative,…
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Millennium Docs Against Gravity to feature Susan Sontag retrospective
The 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity (12 – 22 May 2022) will present both the first documentary films, as well as feature productions, of American essayist #Susan Sontag#. This will be the first time such a wide-ranging showcase will be presented to the public in #Poland. At Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the festival audience will…
