List of documentary film festivals

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Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.

Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[1]

In many cities around the world, documentary film festivals are held annually to showcase documentaries made that year. Many of them are theme or genre specific.

Name  | Est.  | City  | Country

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10 Under 10 Film Festival | 2002  | Austin, Texas |  United States
Academia Film Olomouc | 1966[2] | Olomouc |  Czech Republic
AFI Docs | 2003  | Washington, D.C. |  United States
Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival | 2018  | Sarajevo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival | 2006  | Mexico | Mexico
Atlanta DocuFest | 2005  | Atlanta, Georgia |  United States
Belleville Downtown DocFest | 2010  | Belleville, Ontario |  Canada
Berlin Documentary Forum | 2010  | Berlin |  Germany
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | 2003  | Missoula, Montana |  United States
Camden International Film Festival | 2005  | Camden, Maine |  United States
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival | 2010  | Chagrin Falls, Ohio |  United States
Chicago International Documentary Festival | 2003  | Chicago, Illinois |  United States
China Screen | 2007  | Paris |  France
Cine Pobre Film Festival | 2002  | La Paz, Baja California Sur |  Mexico
Cinéma du Réel | 1978  | Paris |  France
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival - CPH:DOX | 2003  | Copenhagen |  Denmark
Development Film Festival | 2005  | Chennai |  India
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival | 2009  | Gyeonggi-do |  South Korea
Doc LA - Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival | 2010  | Los Angeles, California |  United States
Doc NYC | 2010  | New York City |  United States
Docaviv International Film Festival | 1998  | Tel Aviv |  Israel
Dockanema | 2006  | Maputo |  Mozambique
Doclisboa | 2003  | Lisbon |  Portugal
Documentary Edge Festival | 2005  | Auckland and Wellington |  New Zealand
Docville | 2005  | Leuven |  Belgium
Dok Leipzig | 1955  | Leipzig |  Germany
Dokufest | 2001  | Prizren |  Kosovo
DORF | 2007  | Vinkovci |  Croatia
Dox Box | 2008  | Damascus |  Syria
DOXA Documentary Film Festival | 1998  | Vancouver |  Canada
EBS International Documentary Festival | 2004  | Seoul |  South Korea
Encounters Festival South Africa | 1999  | Cape Town and Johannesburg |  South Africa
Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC | 2002  | Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta, Ibarra, Portoviejo |  Ecuador
Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival | 2010  | Mumbai |  India
Freedom Film Fest | 2003  | Malaysia |  Malaysia
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | 1998  | Durham, North Carolina |  United States
Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival | 2008  | Winnipeg, Manitoba |  Canada
Gran Paradiso Film Festival | 1984  | Cogne |  Italy
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival | 2003  | Guangdong |  China
Guelph Film Festival | 1984  | Guelph, Ontario |  Canada
Hádoc | 2012  | Leiria |  Portugal
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival | 1993  | Toronto |  Canada
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival | 1992  | Hot Springs, Arkansas |  United States
Imagine International Film Festival | 2004  | Clearwater, Florida |  United States
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam | 1988  | Amsterdam |  Netherlands
International Wildlife Film Festival | 1977  | Missoula, Montana |  United States
Io Isabella International Film Week | 2005  |  |  Italy
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival | 2003  | New Delhi |  India
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival | 1997  | Jihlava |  Czech Republic
Junction North International Documentary Film Festival | 2013  | Sudbury, Ontario |  Canada
Krakow Film Festival | 1961  | Kraków |  Kraków
London International Documentary Festival | 2007  | London |  United Kingdom
Marda Loop Justice Film Festival | 2006  | Calgary, Alberta |  Canada
Margaret Mead Film Festival | 1977  | New York City |  United States
Marseille Festival of Documentary Film | 1989  | Marseille |  France
Millennium Docs Against Gravity | 2004  | Warsaw |  Poland
Montreal International Documentary Festival | 1998  | Montreal |  Canada
New Haven Documentary Film Festival | 2014  | New Haven, Connecticut |  United States
New Media Film Festival | 2009  | Los Angeles, California |  United States
New Orleans Film Festival | 1989  | New Orleans, Louisiana |  United States
Northwestfest | 1983  | Edmonton, Alberta |  Canada
Open City Documentary Festival | 2011  | London |  United Kingdom
One World Film Festival | 1999  | Prague |  Czech Republic
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival | 2001  | Portland, Oregon |  United States
Portland Film Festival | 2013  | Portland, Oregon |  United States
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival | 2006  | Sarajevo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Punto de Vista. International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra | 2005  | Pamplona |  Spain
Sheffield Doc/Fest | 1994  | Sheffield |  United Kingdom
San Francisco Documentary Festival | 2001  | San Francisco, CA |  United States
DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival | 2010  | Utah |  United States
Taiwan International Documentary Festival | 1998  | Taipei |  Taiwan
Telluride Mountainfilm | 1979  | Telluride, Colorado |  United States
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | 1999  | Thessaloniki |  Greece
True/False Film Festival | 2004  | Columbia, Missouri |  United States
United Nations Association Film Festival | 1998  | Palo Alto, CA |  United States
ViBGYOR International Film Festival | 2006  | Thrissur |  India
Visions du réel | 1969  | Nyon |  Switzerland
VIVA Film Festival | 2015  | Sarajevo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wakefield Documentary Film Festival | 2005[3] | Wakefield, Quebec |  Canada
World Community Film Festival | 1990  | Courtenay, Duncan, Kelowna and Nanaimo, British Columbia |  Canada
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival | 1989  | Yamagata |  Japan
Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival | 2002  | Yogyakarta |  Indonesia
ZagrebDox | 2005  | Zagreb |  Croatia

## See also

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* List of film festivals

## References

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1. ^ Nichols, Bill (1998). "Foreword". In Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeannette (eds.). Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2639-8.
2. ^ "History | AFO | Academia Film Olomouc". www.afo.cz. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
3. ^ "Wakefield Doc Fest! - Theatre Wakefield". Retrieved 2024-11-10.