Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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We Have to Survive
CLIMATE: More than a quarter of a century after the groundbreaking eco-doc The Age of Stupid, Tomáš Krupa's We Have to Survive updates the response to global warming and climate change with a more positive message for humanity.
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Derek vs Derek
NATURE: In the English countryside, a clash between industrial dairy farming and ecological restoration becomes an unexpectedly moving reflection on extinction and land use.
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80 Angry Journalists
JOURNALISM: As political and institutional pressure tightens around Hungary’s largest independent news outlet, a newsroom is pushed from exhaustion into collective rupture.
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Replica
AI: In Replica, women turn to AI partners for comfort, affirmation, and emotional refuge, exposing the social and psychological conditions that make such attachments possible.
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American Doctor
GAZA: Following three American physicians in and beyond Gaza, 'American Doctor' confronts genocide, media legibility, and the ever-collapsing distance between war and domestic responsibility.
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Thessaloniki 2026 awards reveal documentary field shaped by war, memory, and resistance
At the close of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, the 2026 awards painted a vivid picture of a field preoccupied with war, memory, and embodiment. Across the festival’s main competition strands, the top prizes went to films that approached documentary as a way of rendering absence, testimony, and historical fracture perceptible. In the International…
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Soap Fever
MEDIA: Memories of an economic crisis, an escapist TV obsession, and timely observations on how cheap entertainment and politics work together, intertwine in this witty, kaleidoscopic collage film of Finland in the 1990s
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A Song Without Home
RIGHTS: A trans woman’s life between Georgia and Vienna anchors this striking CPH:DOX documentary about repression, survival, and the limits of liberation.
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Birds Of War
JOURNALISM: The unequal power dynamics of global journalism through a love story forged across war, exile, and reporting.