Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Since its inception, the Festival has hosted hundreds of films from Turkey and around
the world and each year, documentary filmmakers and documentary cinema
theoreticians have the opportunity to meet with the audience.
Themes: General
Address:
Kuloglu Mah. Istiklal Cad. Gazeteci, Erol Dernek Sok. No: 6 Kat: 4
Turkey
Web: www.1001documentary.net
The AWDFF is committed to the promotion of knowledge and culture of Pan African
people through cinema. Public viewings of selected AWDFF films shall occur in the US,
Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Address:
USA
Web: www.umsl.edu
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AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Aljazeera Channel is hosting the Aljazeera Int. Documentary Film Festival with the
intent of promoting the best documentary and news programmes. Its aim is to promote
better cooperation and understanding among peoples and cultures. Exact dates tba.
Themes: General
Address:
PO Box 24123
Doha
Qatar
Web: www1.aljazeera.net/festival
ASTRA is an int. biannual documentary film festival based in Sibiu, Romania, with a
strong focus on Eastern European production approaching contemporary issues with
anthropological sensibility. It is the only national showcase for Romanian documentary
films
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Piata Huet 12
550182 Sibiu
Romania
Web: http://www.astrafilm.ro
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BANGKOK INDIEFEST
The goal is to bring the most compelling independent movies from around the world to
screen alongside the best new independent Thai cinema.
Address:
10500 Bangkok
Thailand
Email: info@bangkokfest.com
Web: http://www.bangkokfest.com/
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Postbus 95001
1090 HA Amsterdam
Netherlands
www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl
BELDOCS
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Beldocs is an Interantional Feauture Documentary Film Festival held in Belgrade,
Serbia. Please note the following submission dedlines:1th January 2010 for films
finished before 2009. 1th February 2010 - for films finished 2009.
Themes: General
Address:
11 000 Belgrade
Web: www.beldocs.rs
Themes: General
Address:
11000 Belgrade
Web: www.shortfilmfest.org/
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
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Address:
Brazil
Web: www.filmesdequintal.com.br
Themes: General
Address:
USA
Web: www.bigskyfilmfest.org
Birds Eye View is accepting films of any subject matter directed or co-directed by
women. Documentaries of any length can be entered.
Themes: General
Address:
N5 2EA London
UK
Web: www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
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BRUXELLES FICTION & DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Telephone: +17345386155
Fax: +17345386155
Email: belgium@festivalinfo.info
Web: http://www.mamut.net/6festival/
Themes: General
Address:
Stockton CA 95269-0341
USA
Web: www.sjiff.org/caldocfest/
CINESTRAT
CINESTRAT is a documentary film competition with a yearly issue. Issue for 2010 is
the 21st Century. Among others, best of the fest for feature documentaries is 7000 eur.
Screenings in Spain (Alicante,Valencia), Perú (Lima) and Argentina (Mendoza)
Themes: General
Address:
6
Jazmín 2 6B (62), Edificio España
Spain
Web: www.cinestrat.es
The Festival is organized by the Casa del Documentario Città del Sole which brings
together film-makers and production companies who have found their genius loci in this
region of the Appennines where Continental Europe becomes Mediterranean Europe.
Address:
Italy
Web: www.cittadelsole.biz
CPH:DOX
With an annual admission number about 18.000 cph:dox has by now established itself
as one of the most important documentary events in Scandinavia.
Themes: General
Address:
Tagensvej 85 F
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
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Telephone: +45 3393 0734
Web: www.cphdox.dk
Themes: General
Address:
IL 60622 Chicago
USA
Web: www.chicagodocfestival.org
CINÉMA DU RÉEL
Since 1978, Cinéma du Réel int. documentary film festival has been a meeting point,
where the public and professionals discover films of experienced authors as well as
new talents, the history of documentary cinema as well as contemporary works.
Themes: General
Address:
France
Telephone: +33 1 44 78 45 16
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Fax: +33 1 44 78 12 24
Web: www.cinemadureel.org
Web 2: www.bpi.fr
CORSICA.DOC
Address:
Cadi Faracciolu
20140 Moca-Croce
France
Email: corsica.doc@orange.fr
Web: www.corsicadoc.com
CRONOGRAF
This festival was created to animate the cinema life in Moldova, as well as to discover
new horizons in the field of documentary film making. At the same time, it was aiming
to cultivate an interest for this genre among the local public.
Themes: General
Address:
MD-2012 Chishinau
Republic of Moldova
Telephone: 373-2-232771
Fax: 373-2-225409
Web: www.owh.md
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Dialektus is a European documentary festival, which aims to make documentary and
anthropological film accessible to a wider audience.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Katóka u. 46
H-1163 Budapest
Hungary
Web: www.dialektusfesztival.hu
DOC NYC
Address:
USA
Web: www.docnyc.net
DOCBOAT
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Festival deadline: 30/11-1999
Themes: General
Address:
ul. Bzowa 15
02-708 Warszawa
Poland
Web: www.docboat.pl
Themes: General
Address:
Largo da Madalena, nº 1, 1º
1100-317 Lisboa
Portugal
Email: apordoc@clix.pt
Web: www.doclisboa.org
DOCSBARCELONA
DocsBarcelona has been an international meeting place for the documentary field for
the past 10 years. A marketplace for the industry and a point of encounter for the
public, where viewers come into contact with films and directors.
Themes: General
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Address:
08036 Barcelona
Spain
Web: www.docsbarcelona.com
Themes: General
Address:
CP 06100 México DF
Mexico
Web: www.docsdf.com
DOCUFEST ATLANTA
Themes: General
Address:
12
1132 Virginia Ave. NE, Suite 19
30306 Atlanta GA
USA
Telephone: 1 4043473564
Web: www.docufest.com
DOCUMFEST
TVR Timisoara, regional public studio for South-West Romania, organizes this fall, an
International Festival. It will promote the diversity of documentary films and it will
contribute to a better knowledge of new ways to approach reality.
Themes: General
Address:
300115 Timisoara
Romania
Web: www.documfest.ro
Document understands human rights in its broadest terms to include a wide range of
subjects, and a representative selection of documentaries from home and abroad,
addressing issues such as: Immigration; asylum; racism; eviction; poverty; HIV/AIDS,
etc.
Address:
13
G41-2RJ Glasgow, Scotland
UK
Web: www.docfilmfest.org.uk
Documentaries in Maribor - DokMa is the only film festival with international and
national documentary film competition in Slovenia. There are five categories: Main
Programme, Interregional Programme, Slovenian Special, Great Documentaries and
Parallels
Themes: General
Address:
Glavarjeva ulica 49
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Web: www.dokma.net
Different programme sections will present the so-called problem, socially critical works,
films about myths and icons of the present and the past, intimate portraits, as well as
retrospectives of prominent Slovene and foreign documentarists.
Themes: General
Presernova cesta 10
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
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Web: www.cd-cc.si
DOCUTAH
Themes: General
Address:
USA
Email: tuckett@dixie.edu
DOCVILLE
DOCVILLE stands for documentaries with character: films in which the director shows
his vision toward the medium, films that move, that open new worlds.
Themes: General
Address:
Naamsestraat 96
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Web: www.docville.be
DOKUFEST
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DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, is the largest film
event in Kosova. The Festival is organized in August in the picturesque and historical
town of Prizren which attracts numerous international and regional artists. In
Themes: General
Address:
Mimar Sinan 12
Web: www.dokufest.com
The festival accepts creative documentaries in all fields of the arts and of any length.
Themes: Art
Address:
1070 BT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Web: www.doku-arts.com
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Festival end date: 24/09-2009
Themes: General
Address:
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Web: www.lidff.blogspot.com
DOX BOX
Themes: General
Address:
Damascus
Syria
Email: info@dox-box.org
Web: www.dox-box.org
DOXA consists of critical programs that examine the history of documentary film and
video as well as present new works that expand our thinking about the documentary
genre. Only NTSC cassettes are accepted.
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Festival start date: 07/05-2010
Themes: General
Address:
Canada
Web: www.doxafestival.ca
Detroit Docs was founded in 2000 to promote the best in non-fiction filmmaking. The
festival is presented by the Detroit Film Center.
Themes: General
Address:
5200 Lannoo
MI 48236 Detroit
USA
Web: www.detroitdocs.com
DOC À TUNIS
Address:
1005 Tunis
Tunisia
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Telephone: +216 71 287 203
Web: http://docatunis.nesselfen.org
Address:
Israel
Email: info@docaviv.co.il
Web: www.docaviv.co.il
Address:
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USA
Email: info@docmiami.org
Web: http://docmiami.org/
Address:
Fredrikinkatu 23
00120 Helsinki
Finland
Web: www.docpoint.info
DocuDays was founded in 1999 with the aim of raising public awareness for the non-
fiction genre as an entertaining and informative tool. Beirut Int. Documentary Festival is
still the premiere festival in the Arab world totally dedicated to documentaries.
Themes: General
Address:
PO BOX 113-7222
Hamra, Beirut
Lebanon
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Fax: 961 1 352 256
Email: docudays@docudays.com
Web: www.docudays.com
DOCUMENTA MADRID
Themes: General
Address:
28013 Madrid
Spain
Web: www.documentamadrid.com
DOCUMENTARIST
Address:
Turkey
Email: info@documentarist.org
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Web: www.documentarist.org
Address:
PO Box 90943
1142 Auckland
New Zealand
Email: info@documentaryedge.org.nz
Web: www.documentaryedge.org.nz
Docupolis invites all voices around the world to converge into the annual geographical
latitud. A diversity of ideas transits/traverses the cosmos of Docupolis, an independent
festival, steadily growing and established as an indispensable encounter point.
Address:
Barcelona
Spain
Web: www.docupolis.org
Min length:
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Address:
22
Am König Heinrich Platz
47049 Duisburg
Germany
Web: www.duisburger-filmwoche.de
Over 100 non-fiction films from around the world will meet the audience on the EBS-TV
channel for 15 hours a day in addition to public screenings, forums, seminars,
performances, photo exhibitions and a special focus on five Asian countries.
Address:
134-854 Seoul
Korea, Republic of
Telephone: 82-2-526-2122-3
Fax: 82-2-526-2170
Web: www.eidf.org
EDOC runs in the three Ecuadorian cities of Quito, Guayaquil and Manta.
Address:
Quito
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Ecuador
Web: www.festivaledoc.org
Address:
PO Box 16191
South Africa
Web: www.encounters.co.za
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Schottengasse 3a/1/59
1010 Wien
Austria
Web: www.ethnocineca.at
EXTREMA'DOC
Address:
24
Apartado de correos nº 687
10080 CÁCERES
Spain
Email: info@extremadoc.com
Web: www.extremadoc.com
FIDA DOC'SOUSS
5 days programming to watch and learn from productions coming from different
geographical, linguistic and cultural areas: Maghreb, Middle-East, Latin America, Asia
and Europe. With focus on 4 main issues: Environment, Social, Sport and Arts &
Music. NB! Filmmakers outside Morocco please send films to this address: Mr Laurent
BOCAHUT,(FIDA DOC), 5 Rue Pierre Lermitte,75018 Paris
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Address:
BP 200061
8000 Agadir
Morocco
Telephone: +212 70 14 33 69
Web: www.fidadoc.org
FIDMARSEILLE
Themes: General
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Address:
13001 Marseilles
France
Telephone: +33 4 95 04 44 90
Fax: +33 4 95 04 44 91
Web: www.fidmarseille.org
Address:
Canada
Telephone: 1 514-874-1637
Fax: 1 514-874-9929
Web: www.artfifa.com
FIGRA
Address:
26
France
Any documentary that talks about the Pacific can be registered and participate.
Address:
French Polynesia
Web: www.filmfestivaloceanie.org/
Aims to promote documentary film, particularly the cinema d´auteur, films dealing with
social, anthropological, historical and political issues as well as the world of the Arts.
Films produced after April 30. have a August 1. deadline.
Address:
50121 Firenze
Italy
Web: www.festivaldeipopoli.org
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The Festival of Visual Culture - international festival of ethnographic, anthropological
and documentary film - was established in 2001. Alongside with the festival has been
arranged a lecture series of visual anthropology.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Länsikatu 15
80110 Joensuu
Finland
Web: www.viscult.net
Address:
Via G. Gronchi 11
Italy
Web: www.fondazionebizzarri.org
The festival includes documentaries that develop the aesthetics introduced by Robert
Flaherty in his masterpiece Nanook of the North, portraying human character's real life
on film.
Address:
28
17 Pionerskaya Street
614039 Perm
Russia
Web: www.flahertiana.perm.ru
Full Frame celebrates the power and artistry of documentaries. Its mission is to provide
filmmakers opportunities to showcase their work theatrically, stimulating conversation
and community between filmmakers, industry executives and the general public.
Themes: General
Address:
NC 27701 Durham
USA
Web: www.fullframefest.org
Address:
29
P. O. Box 60 13 61
14413 Potsdam
Germany
Web: www.globians.com
The festival held in Guangzhou annually includes the following major activities: A
thematic Competition, Documentary Market, Public Screenings and Seminars.
Address:
Room 1201-12-02, Tower 4, Dongjun Plaza 836 East Dongfeng Road Guangzhou
China
Web: www.gzdoc.com
Göttingen IFF is a biennial event with an aim to promote documentaries in the context
of intra- and intercultural communication and give credit to new films, videos or
interactive media dealing with anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Nonnenstieg 72
37075 Göttingen
Germany
Web: www.gieff.de
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HOT DOCS
Address:
Canada
Web: www.hotdocs.ca
It is a goal of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute to provide a venue for new
and established documentarians from across the nation and abroad and on a variety of
topics and themes.
Address:
71901 Arkansas
USA
Web: www.hsdfi.org
The films, coming from all over the world, are selected for their ability to document
reality - in particular the violations of human rights - with investigative scruple, courage
and independence of judgement.
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Festival start date: 10/04-2010
Address:
40122 Bologna
Italy
Web: www.humanrightsnights.org
Documentary films of any genre without any limits as to the year of the film production
and release are accepted, provided the film has not been screened in Ukraine earlier.
Earlier screenings in other festivals will not exclude participation.
Address:
Kiev
Ukraine
Web: www.docudays.org.ua
IDFA
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Festival deadline: 01/08-2010
Themes: General
Address:
Frederiksplein 52
1017 XN Amsterdam
Netherlands
Web: www.idfa.nl
The Leipzig DOKfestival is an annual festival for long and short documentary films and
videos, as well as animated productions. Submission Deadlines 2010: May 31, 2010
for films completed before May 1, 2010 July 10, 2010 for films completed after May 1,
2010
Themes: General
Address:
Grosse Fleischergasse 11
04109 Leipzig
Germany
Web: www.dok-leipzig.de
DokumentART is a forum for the European documentary film, with a special interest in
Eastern Europe. It is also open to works from outside Europe which make a valuable
contribution to the festival programme. The festival looks for recently produced films.
Address:
33
Große Krauthöfer Straße 16
17033 Neubrandenburg
Germany
Telephone: +49 39 55 66 61 09
Web: www.dokumentart.org
Themes: General
Address:
Na Kopci 23
586 01 Jihlava
Czech Republic
Web: www.dokument-festival.cz
Address:
16 Bogotá
Colombia
Web: www.muestradoc.com
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL OF PARIS
[A]LLIANCE organises the Paris International Human Rights Film Festival. The
selection is made up of documentary films (creative documentaries, investigative
reports, etc.). The Festival is opened to filmmakers from all over the world.
Address:
75007 Paris
France
Email: contact@alliance-cine.org
Email 2: vincent.mercier@alliance-cine.org
Web: www.festival-droitsdelhomme.org
The Festival was founded in 1986 by the mountaineer and filmmaker Robert Schauer.
Starting out as a gathering of professional producers and alpinists it grew larger and
expanded to an annual happening that attracts a multitude of people. The variety of
films developed equally. Every year a varied program is composed from the vast
number of submissions represented in the categories: alpine documentation, climbing
on rock & ice, adventure, nature and environment, alpine & foreign cultures.
Themes: Nature/Adventure
Address:
Am Klammbach 1 A
8044 Graz
Austria
Telephone: 43/316/814223-0
Fax: 43/316/814223-4
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Email: mountainfilm@mountainfilm.com
Web: http://www.mountainfilm.com/en/
The Festival aims at showing beautiful wildlife and environmental films coming from all
over the world in order to raise public awareness of ecological issues.
Address:
5, place Bir-Hakeim
38000 Grenoble
France
Telephone: +33 4 76 42 64 08
Fax: +33 76 44 63 36
Web: www.festivaldufilm-frapna.org
Themes: Wildlife
Address:
718 S. Higgins
USA
Web: www.wildlifefilms.org
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IOWA CITY INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Address:
P.O.Box 10008
USA
Web: http://icdocs.net
Address:
15569 Tehran
Iran
Telephone: 98 21 88511326
Fax: 98 21 88511242
Web: www.irandocfest.ir
Address:
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c/o Egyptian Film Center, City of Arts, Pyramids Ave
12111 Giza
Egypt
Web: www.egyptianfilmcenter.org.eg
It's All True International documentary festival is the most important event dedicated
exclusively to the non-fictional production of cinema and video in Brazil. The festival
has taken place since 1996 simultaneously in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Address:
Brazil
Email: info@itsalltrue.com.br
Web: www.itsalltrue.com.br
This event allows television and film industry professionals from around the world to
network with their peers and engage in lively discussions, seminars, and forums, all
devoted to the world of natural history filmmaking. The festival is biennial.
Themes: Wildlife
Address:
38
240 S Glenwood, Suite 112, PO Box 3940
WY 83001 Jackson
USA
Web: www.jhfestival.org
The festival hopes to increase understanding and awareness of the urgent need to
protect and care for the natural world. It was established in 1993, and is held biennially.
The next edition of the JWFF will find place 2011.
Themes: Wildlife
Address:
Japan
Web: www.naturechannel.jp
Jean Rouch IFF (formerly known as Bilan du film Ethnographic) is dedicated to the
professionals in the fields of cinema and anthropology, and is focusing on formal and
thematic innovations.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
75116 Paris
France
Telephone: +33 1 47 04 38 20
Fax: +33 1 45 53 52 82
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Web: www.comite-film-ethno.net
Themes: General
Address:
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
Germany
Email: dokfest@filmladen.de
Web: www.filmladen.de/dokfest
Documentaries from all over the world may join the competition, whatever the theme
and the length are.
Address:
21 rue Ampère
17000 La Rochelle
France
Fax: +33 5 5 46 34 29 24
Web: www.carre-amelot.net/escalesdocumentaires/
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For twenty years aesthetic, political and economic issues in documentary films have
guided the editorial choices of the Etats généraux. The 21st edition will bring together
all those passionately interested in documentary cinema, professionals and spectators
to participate in the dynamics of training, screening and reflection that have
distinguished this event since its creation.
Address:
07170 Lussas
France
Fax: +33 4 75 94 28 81
Web: www.lussasdoc.com
Address:
UK
Email: jessieteggin@pocketvisions.co.uk
Web: www.lidf.co.uk
MIDA
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MIDA is a festival dedicated to documentary cinema. The substance of this event is
about "contemporary history", to reflect and present the profound changes of human
history and the most imminent social topics.
Address:
11 F, STV Mansion B
200041 Shanghai
China
Telephone: +86-21-62565899
Email: mida@midadoc.org
Web: www.midadoc.org
Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films is a bi-
annual competitive festival.
Types:
Address:
400026 Mumbai
India
Web: www.miffindia.in
Web 2: www.filmsdivision.org
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Festival end date: 14/11-2010
Address:
USA
Web: www.amnh.org/Mead
Address:
Email: topic@mff.ba
Web: www.mff.ba
The purpose for the filmmakers is to create their own world and reflect the reality
meeting with. faith, hope, love, mercy and compassion.
Address:
43
Karavannaya 12
191011 St Petersburg
Russia
Web: www.message-to-man.spb.ru
MIRADAS-DOC
Address:
Spain
Fax: +34922850354
Web: www.miradasdoc.com
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Address:
28019 Madrid
Spain
Email: mujerdoc@me.com
Web: www.mujerdoc.es
Web 2: www.mujeresdelmundo.es
Address:
Landwehrstraße 79
80336 München
Germany
Web: www.dokfest-muenchen.de
NATURVISION
Documentaries from around the world focusing on nature and wildlife are welcomed for
the fourth edition of this festival.
Address:
Forstwaldstraße 6
45
94556 Neuschönau
Germany
Web: www.natur-vision.de
The New York international Documentary Festival presents new and classic
international documentaries to New York audiences. Selection is by invitation only.
Address:
USA
Web: www.docfest.org
NODODOCFEST
Address:
34132 Trieste
Italy
Web: www.nododocfest.org
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Nordic film festival with competition. The festival travels each year among the five
Nordic cities Oulu, Bergen, Århus, Reykjavik and Malmö. It is organised by Filmkontakt
Nord.Please notice the 2 deadlines: The first deadline is 15 February for films made in
2009 and the second deadline is on 15 May for films completed after 1 January 2010.
Address:
Bergen
Norway
Telephone: +45 33 11 51 52
Fax: +45 33 11 21 52
Web: www.nordiskpanorama.com
The aim of the festival is to strengthen the status of documentaries in Norway, and to
inspire a broader production. Focus is on Norway and the Nordic countries but
documentaries from other countries are also welcome.
Address:
6101 Volda
Norway
Telephone:
Web: www.dokfilm.no
OXDOX
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Oxdox International Film Festival brings 100 of the best documentary films from around
the world to Oxford. A 'work in progress' workshop is organised at the festival as well.
Address:
UK
Web: www.oxdox.com
The International Odense Film Festival is a short and documentary film festival. The
festival screens international short fiction and short documentaries as well as Danish
short fiction and Danish short and feature length documentaries.
Address:
5100 Odense C
Denmark
Telephone: +45 65 51 28 21
Fax: +45 65 91 43 18
Web: www.filmfestival.dk
One World is one of the leading festivals dealing with the issue of human rights in
Europe and belongs among the founding members of the Association of Human Rights
Festivals, which joins together 17 festivals from throughout the entire world.
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Types: Fiction, Documentary Festival
Address:
Sokolská 18
120 00 Prague 4
Czech Republic
Web: www.oneworld.cz
Themes: Nature/Adventure
Address:
Via Zelasco,1
24122 Bergamo
Italy
Web: www.teamitalia.com
Planete Doc Review presents films awarded at the most prominent festivals which talk
about the world we live in through the language of cinema of the highest merit.
Address:
49
Palace of Culture, Pl. Defilad 1
Warsaw
Poland
Web: www.docreview.pl
Web 2: www.againstgravity.pl
Address:
Spain
Web: www.play-doc.com
This non-competitive festival focuses primarily on work from outside the United States,
but American features, documentaries and shorts are included. The festival has a
rolling deadline until the end of December.
Address:
OR 97205 Portland
USA
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Telephone: 1 503 221 1156
Web: http://www.nwfilm.org/festivals/portland_international.php
Address:
31001 Pamplona
Spain
Web: www.puntodevista.navarra.es
Worldwide festival for the best documentaries. Two grand prices. One is given by an
international jury the other one by votes of the audience of Estonian TV.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Box A
3600 Pärnu
Estonia
51
Fax: 372 44 30 774
Web: www.chaplin.ee
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
UK
Web: www.raifilmfest.org.uk
Address:
Fríkirkjuvegur 1
101 Reykjavík
Iceland
Web: www.riff.is
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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DU DOCUMENTAIRE DE MONTRÉAL
Address:
Canada
Email: info@ridm.qc.ca
Web: www.ridm.qc.ca
River to River is the first festival in the world entirely devoted to films from and about
India. Moreover, to give our audience a greater vision of India and around, the festival
is also open to films coming from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Address:
50125 Florence
Italy
Web: www.rivertoriver.it
The main goal is to support producing educational, pedagogical and scientific films,
paving the way for introducing such films into education system and support and
encourage (young) filmmakers to produce more and better educational and
pedagogical films
Address:
53
No 8.Semnan St. Bahar Ave.
1561711135 Teheran
Iran
Telephone: +982177501097
Fax: +982177522921
Email: riff@roshd.ac.ir
Web: http://festival.roshd.ir/filmFestival/en/
The Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is Rome 's first independent and
international film festival. Its aim is to unite enthusiasm for films and filmmaking among
young filmmakers with the realities of film production and distribution.
Address:
00198 Roma
Italy
Web: www.riff.it
Address:
179936 Singapore
Singapore
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Web: www.substation.org
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
08100 Nuoro
Italy
Web: www.isresardegna.org
SEE is an event packed full of screenings, seminars and special events with some of
the leading persons in the industry.
Address:
10 Boyces Street
UK
Web: www.seefestival.org
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SXSW - SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE
Independent fiction and docs. The conference portion is a five-day crash course on
guerilla filmmaking and marketing.
Address:
USA
Web: www.sxsw.com
Featuring independent and innovative film from around the world. Hosted by the
Savannah College of Art and Design, the annual festival presents a full range of
cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and emerging student
filmmakers.
Address:
Savannah
USA
Web: http://filmfest.scad.edu/
Doc/Fest is a film festival, industry session programme and market place, offering
pitching opportunities, discussion panels and filmmaker masterclasses, as well as
inspirational documentary films from across the globe. 2011 in June!
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Festival end date: 07/11-2010
Address:
S1 2BX Sheffield
UK
Web: www.sheffdocfest.com
Address:
USA
Web: www.silverdocs.com
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Types: Animation, Short Film Festival , Documentary Festival, Fiction
Address:
333-0844 Saitama
Japan
Web: www.skipcity-dcf.jp
The festival calls for films both fiction- or non-fiction avoiding commercial dramaturgy,
scratching only the surface of the artistic expression. Films holding a mirror to
humankind, focusing on real life conditions and make viewers use their mind.
Address:
Széchenyi út 14
3300 Eger
Hungary
Web: www.slowfilmfest.hu
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Address:
90144 Palermo
Italy
Web: www.solelunaunpontetraleculture.com
Address:
C/ Cárcer , nº 6
29012 Malaga
Spain
Web: www.festivaldemalaga.com
Stranger Than Fiction is dedicated to celebrating the best of factual film and television.
Address:
59
Dublin 2.
Ireland
Email: GrainneH@irishfilm.ie
Web: http://www.irishfilm.ie/STF/index.htm
The focus of the WorldFilm is upon all film production that is not part of mainstream
commercial film-making and has some kind of anthropological component. Films from
different regions of the world are most welcome.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
51014 Tartu
Estonia
Web: www.worldfilm.ee
The Art of the Document Festival is a meeting with the most interesting docs from
Eastern Europe. It is a new place of exchange of ideas in the old centre of the Poland's
capital city.
Address:
ul. Chelmska 21
00-724 Warszawa
Poland
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Telephone: +48 22 8402745
Email: festival@arkanastudio.pl
Web: www.sztukadokumentu.pl
The TV3 International Award has become a platform for all productions that raise a
voice against the violation of human rights. The goal is to defend the rights of
individuals and democratic values such as tolerance and respect for minorities.
Address:
Spain
Web: http://www.tv3.cat/premistv3/dentro02.html
The Taiwan International Documentary Festival, held once every two years, aims to
encourage the making of documentaries and to enhance the interaction between
international and local documentarists.
Address:
6F-1 Taipei
Taiwan
Telephone: 886 2 27 72 38 37
Fax: 886 2 27 72 43 70
Email: info@tidf.org.tw
Email 2: tidf@art.ntmofa.gov.tw
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Web: http://tidf.tmoa.gov.tw
TIEFF is more than a venue for screening films and videos; it is also a forum for
education, discussion, and exchange. The festival is biennial.
Themes: Anthropological/Ethnographical
Address:
Taiwan
Web: www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw
The festival mission is to exhibit the diversity of human cultures past and present in the
exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote the genre and the
makers of film and video productions about archaeology and indigenous peoples.
Themes: History/Archaeology
Address:
97405 Oregon
USA
Telephone:
Web: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml
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Global Visions continues to champion alternative media through the art of documentary
film and search for the best in the documentary art form. The Festival screens new
films on current issues or on issues that continue to be relevant.
Address:
Canada
Web: www.globalvisionsfestival.com
The festival is focused on the Jewish nation, its tradition, identity and history, both past
and present. It aims to show films from post-soviet countries as well as from Western
Europe.
Address:
00-532 Warszawa
Poland
Web: www.jewishmotifs.org
The River Festival is born with the intention to be the compulsory meeting and
reference point for all the people who consider the rivers as a source of richness and
culture, as a nexus between people who know their strength.
Address:
63
Avinguda Príncep d'Astúries, 13
08012 Barcelona
Spain
Web: www.elriu.com
The UKJFF exhibits films that engage with Jewish experiences, histories, cultures and
areas of concern worldwide, and explores their relationship and place within a multi-
cultural society.
Address:
UK
Email: info@ukjff.org.uk
Web: www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk
The TDF is carried out every March in Thessaloniki since its inception in 1999.
Through tributes and retrospectives, the TDF focuses on filmmakers internationally
renowned for their contribution to the documentary genre.
Address:
9, Alexandras Av.
64
11473 Athens
Greece
Web: www.filmfestival.gr
The first International Festival in Albania for short film, fiction, documentaries,
animation and experimental.
Max length:
30
Address:
Tirana
Albania
Web: www.tiranafilmfest.com
The festival involves short films and documentaries aimed at all branches of industrial,
agricultural, economic and civic pursuits of people and their connection with living
environments and long-term sustainable development.
Themes: Environmental
Address:
65
702 00 Ostrava
Czech Republic
Web: www.turfilm.cz
The competition is open to documentaries, reports and other productions about any
topic related to life in the cities.
Themes: Urbanity
Address:
28012 Madrid
Spain
Web: www.urbantvfestival.org
US Int Film And Video Festival was founded in 1967 and is devoted to recognition of
outstanding Business, TV, Documentary, Educational, Entertainment, Industrial and
Informational productions. Awards are presented each June during an Awards Gala in
L.A.
Address:
USA
Web: www.filmfestawards.com
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The aim of Verzio is to highlight human rights issues and create greater global
awareness in the public through documentaries that go beyond the usual media
coverage of current social and political affairs.
Address:
1051 Budapest
Hungary
Email: verziofilmfest@ceu.hu
Web: www.verzio.ceu.hu
International competition for fiction, documentary and animation. Short film market.
Please note that the deadline for the national competion is May 25.
Max length:
60
Address:
Praca de Republica
Portugal
Web: www.curtasmetragens.pt/festival
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VISIONS DU RÉEL
Themes: General
Address:
1260 Nyon
Switzerland
Web: www.visionsdureel.ch
VIDEOEX
The purpose of Videoex is to promote video and experimental film works. The festival
is looking for experimental films, videos, innovative animations and music videos,
experimental digital and graphic productions and experimental documentaries.
Max length:
60
Address:
Kanonengasse 20
8004 Zürich
Switzerland
Web: www.videoex.ch
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WILDSCREEN FESTIVAL
For 25 years the Wildscreen Festival has been celebrating and promoting the wildlife
media industry. It has grown to become the world's largest wildlife and environmental
film festival. The next festival will take place in October, 2010.
Address:
UK
Web: www.wildscreenfestival.org
The festival is bi-annual. The next Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
will take place in 2011.
Address:
990-0044 Yamagata-ken
Japan
Web: www.yidff.jp
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Promote and develop the shared heritage of the Dhow countries. Contemporary trends
in global culture. Cultural diversity, individual integrity, social justice, women, children,
diaspora culture and conservation.
Address:
Zanzibar
Tanzania
Web: www.ziff.or.tz
Address:
48009 Bilbao
Spain
Email: info@zinebi.com
Web: www.zinebi.com
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Documentary films of all running times, topics, style and production technologies can
be submitted.
Address:
Nova Ves 18
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
Web: www.zagrebdox.net
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