Ji.hlava's Docu Talent Award goes to Ora et Labora. Retuning wins the DAFilms.com VoD prize at Sarajevo's CineLink Industry Days.

Sunny Side of the Doc closes its La Rochelle chapter as a new CNC-backed international documentary market prepares to launch in Strasbourg in June 2027.

Chile joins Colombia for the first Docs-in-Progress Chile & Colombia Showcase at Cannes Docs 2026, presenting two new Chilean documentary projects.

Ada Solomon on Romanian cinema, documentary, and institutional failure.

Movies That Matter and NEFTi are launching a new 2026 short film initiative to support displaced filmmakers living in Europe and Africa.

FIFDH Impact Days 2026 closed in Geneva with new awards, expanded partnerships, and a growing international network for impact documentary.

Krakow Film Festival launches the Marcel Łoziński Documentary Award with the Polish Doc Guild, spotlighting innovative nonfiction filmmaking worldwide.

The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival has set dates for its 28th edition (5–15 March 2026), returning as a hybrid event across physical venues and online exhibition.

CPH:INDUSTRY has announced the full lineups for the 2026 editions of the CPH:DOX Summit and CPH:Conference, running 16–19 March in Copenhagen

CPH:DOX has selected Pieter-Jan De Pue’s feature documentary MARIINKA as the opening film for its 23rd edition, running March 11–22, 2026 in Copenhagen.

One World 2026 will take place in Prague from 11 to 19 March 2026 and then tour other Czech cities from 11 March to 24 April.

The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) returns to Geneva from 6–15 March 2026 with an edition explicitly shaped by the

MajorDocs has announced the winners of its seventh edition, with jury honors shared for the first time in the festival’s history.

In Gaza, Dr Ezzalden Shlah stages cinema under a broken truce, where rubble replaces venues and women’s stories refuse to stay buried.

From Gaza’s velodromes to Mexico’s avocado groves, the 2026 Impact Lab at FIFDH’s Industry Days is staking out the frontline of social-justice documentary.

The 10th edition of the #MOLDOX Festival will take place from 26–30 November 2025 in Chișinău.

From the metropolis of Khartoum, five Sudanese people have their stories unexpectedly woven together in this evocative mosaic.

Public screenings are planned as open-air events in Deir el-Balah.

HUMAN RIGHTS: The struggles of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that does not recognize them as its own.

At Dokufest, a panel discussion posed this epic question: What does it mean to watch?

The AJB DOC Film Festival, launched in 2018 by Al Jazeera Balkans, has officially announced the cancellation of its 8th edition.

Held in La Rochelle from 23–26 June, the event brought together 2,100 participants from 60 countries.

AFRICA: An exploration of rare archival material that unveils the significance of Algeria’s fight for independence and its implications for modern-day Africa.

IRAQ: Former UN Secretary-General Hans Blix’s fact-finding mission in Iraq became an issue of war and peace, with his words becoming the most crucial for those trying to stop it.

Chile will mark a significant presence at the 32nd edition of Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s leading documentary festival and industry market, taking place

TRADITION: Director Chloe Aicha Boro returns to her Burkina Faso village to confront her family’s dilemma: should they keep or sell their ancestral land? Witness how tradition and French-inh…

The bill is named «On the Transparency of Public Life»

The 40th edition of DOK.fest München concluded with an awards ceremony on Sunday, marking four decades of one of Europe’s leading documentary film festivals.

UKRAINE: The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the festival will take place in-person from 11 to 15 June at Bristol’s Watershed and Arnolfini cultural centres

The national competition program DOCU/UKRAINE at the 22nd edition of #Docudays UA# (6–13 June 2025) will present five critically acclaimed documentaries

Chile will return to Cannes’ Marché du Film in 2025 with a substantial presence, including four works-in-progress selected for the Docs-in-Progress Chile Showcase

The 36th edition of Sunny Side of the Doc, the leading international co-production market for documentary content, has unveiled its full slate of 42

The 25th anniversary edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film concluded in Wiesbaden with

The Doc Alliance network has unveiled the nominees for the 2025 Doc Alliance Award, celebrating new voices in European documentary cinema.

FID MARSEILLE: Brazilian director Janaína Nagata makes contact with the past somewhere between affect and internet research in Private Footage.