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DX’Hub, the professional arm of Berlin-based Doxumentale, is described as “an intimate space for workshops, tools, talks, and meaningful encounters around documentary and non-fiction storytelling.” At its core is the Good Media Pitch, during which Impact pitches for seven new and vital documentary projects will be presented to the industry in attendance. The third edition of DX’Hub runs May 28-31.

Serbian capital Belgrade is once again a key meeting point for the international documentary community as the 19th edition of Beldocs International Doc FF opens May 20, running to May 26 across multiple venues throughout the city. This year’s edition presents more than 100 documentaries, short films, VR works and interactive projects across 15 programme sections, reaffirming the festival’s growing position within the European documentary landscape. This year Beldocs became a qualifying festival for the European Film Academy Awards in the Doc category.

At the May 19 close of Cannes Docs 2026, section head Pierre-Alexis Chevit hosted the Docs-in-Progress Awards Ceremony during which this year’s winners were announced. Over the past days, eight showcases of docs-in-progress from around the world were presented, totalling 33 new creative documentary projects. The big winner was Super Sila by Mohammed Alshareef [Palestine Showcase] which won both the IEFTA Award and the Al Jazeera Documentary Award. All awards…

To the West, in Zapata, directed by David Bim, was announced May 19 as winner of the inaugural Marcel Łoziński International Documentary Award, established jointly by the Kraków Film Festival and the Polish Documentary Film Directors Guild. “It is a remarkable documentary – one that unites beautiful, painterly imagery and precise dramatic construction with genuine emotional force,” the jury observes. “With remarkably restrained means, and never transgressing the boundaries of his protagonists’ intimacy, the young director speaks about the matters that give meaning to our lives – love, family and work.”

At this year’s Doc Day, Academy Award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov and Deutsche Kinemathek artistic director Heleen Gerritsen offered highly thoughtful and sensitive reflections on the ethical and artistic dilemmas facing filmmakers working in conflict zones. “We are balancing on this thin line between being truthful and realistic and honest, and trying to be exciting,” said Chernov, adding: “The filmmaker who tries to tell a war story cannot cleanse it...It has to be terrifying.”

The winners of the Doc Alliance Award 2026 were announced May 19 during the Doc Day Lunch, held at the Marché du Film in Cannes, with The Case Against Space picking up the prize for Best Feature (€5,000) and Some of You Fucked Eva winning the award for Best Short Film (€3,000). This year’s jury brought together Wouter Jansen (CEO of Square Eyes), Maria Palacios Cruz (festival director of the Open City Documentary Festival), and film critic, filmmaker and producer Mark Peranson.

To the West, in Zapata, directed by David Bim, was announced May 19 as winner of the inaugural Marcel Łoziński International Documentary Award, established jointly by the Kraków Film Festival and the Polish Documentary Film Directors Guild. “It is a remarkable documentary – one that unites beautiful, painterly imagery and precise dramatic construction with genuine emotional force,” the jury observes. “With remarkably restrained means, and never transgressing the boundaries of his protagonists’ intimacy, the young director speaks about the matters that give meaning to our lives – love, family and work.”

MIA (Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo) unveiled May 17 details of its 2026 edition running October 19 to 23 in Rome. “MIA is embarking on a transformation that will take it from a market built on highly distinctive vertical content segments to an integrated industry platform, capable of accompanying the entire audiovisual value chain in a circular way,” said Director Gaia Tridente.

CIRCLE, the training initiative dedicated to women and gender-expansive filmmakers, announced May 18 at Cannes Docs the launch of CIRCLE Expanded Orbit: a new international programme focused on immersive storytelling and XR-based practices. The programme is co-organised with Onassis ONX, the Onassis Foundation’s global platform for art and advanced technologies. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentarian Katerina Cizek appointed as Head of Studies.

Belgrade-based Neda Lukić, recently of Taskovski Films, announced May 18 the launch of Films Mundi, a new boutique world sales and distribution company focused on carefully curated creative documentaries. “I wanted to create a space for projects that resonate with me personally — where, beyond experience and strategy, I can also invest genuine care and heart,” Lukić told Business Doc Europe.