All Documentaries articles
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NewsIDFA wraps on an upbeat note with larger audiences
IDFA remains Europe’s preeminent documentary event.
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Features12 documentaries to watch this awards season
As part of Screen International’s guide to the films to watch this awards season, we round up some of the key documentary contenders.
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FeaturesDocumentary sellers and distributors at IDFA call for new ways to engage audiences
Maria Vera of Kino Rebelde and Martina Droandi of Odd Slice Films are energised by doing things differently.
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NewsVenice documentary winner ‘Remake’ acquired for international sales
EXCLUSIVE: Film began buyer conversations at IDFA this week.
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NewsSteven Soderbergh updates on John Lennon documentary in Doha: “It’s almost done”
‘The Christophers’ cast member Michaela Coel says “a lot of studios in America have their eye on Doha.”
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News‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ wins best international film at IDFA 2025
Iranian directors win the top two best film awards at IDFA 2025.
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FeaturesWhy Victor Kossakovsky wants ‘Trillion’, about a woman throwing tiny objects into the sea, to only be seen in cinemas
”Documentary as a form of art will exist only when we respect image, not story,” he says.
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NewsProducers should unlearn old bad habits to make collaborations fairer, say IDFA filmmakers
Directors from the Global South who work with European producers can often feel short-changed by the lack of budget transparency.
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FeaturesWhy IDFA DocLab 2025 is exploring the dark side of online technology
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is “logging off”.
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NewsPluto Film boards Covid-19 vaccine doc ‘The Man Who Healed The World’
EXCLUSIVE: The film is the story of the accidental discovery of the vaccine technology by doctoral student Ingmar Hoerr.
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NewsZahraa Gandour’s IDFA title ‘Flana’ picked up for sales in boost for Iraqi filmmaking
EXCLUSIVE: Ghandour was the first female Iraqi director to be selected for a major film festival following the TIFF selection of ‘Flana’.
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Features“No one stands alone,” says IDFA’s industry head of the festival’s sense of community
Source: Courtesy of IDFA Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen Ask Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, head of industry at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), about the mood among professionals on the eve of this year’s industry programme (November 15-19) and she says there is some wariness but also ” incredible ...
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Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
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FeaturesIDFA’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez talks about her first edition, opening with three short films and her first controversy
Arrate Fernandez explains the decision not to accredit members of Israeli state organisations.
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NewsCroatian director Ivan Ramljak’s ‘Peacemaker’ leads winners at DOK Leipzig
Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver for Endless Cookie wins animation prize, while Cutting Through Rocks by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni takes audience award
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NewsClaire Simon on her Annie Ernaux documentary ‘Writing Life’ and the magic of listening
Source: © DOK Leipzig / Susann Bargas Gomez DOK Talk with Claire Simon Acclaimed French documentary director Claire Simon has an unusual but not very lucrative way to ensure her fans can watch her old films – she makes them available on her website. Anyone ...
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NewsSales agents call on filmmakers to regard them as strategic partners rather than an afterthought
Sales agents, speaking on a DOK Leipzig panel, urge documentary filmmakers to work with them from early stages of a project
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FeaturesChristophe Terhechte reflects on six years at DOK Leipzig and gives key advice to his successor
“Maintaining institutional funding, ensuring fair pay, and securing third-party funding” are key challenges going forward.
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FeaturesCo-production markets are becoming more vital than ever, says DOK Industry head Nadja Tennstedt
As financing sources change, doc filmmakers need to work with more partners.
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Reviews‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ review: Poetic documentary shines a light on Vietnam’s Indigenous Ruc people
Nicolas Graux and Truonh Minh Quy’s film follows a 60-year-old Ruc woman in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province