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In addition to four new docs world-premiering in official selection at Visions du Réel, the Polish doc industry will be represented in Nyon by a delegation of producers presenting six projects to the international professionals in tow. Polish producers will also be active on a co-production round table with fellow producers from Canada, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland and France.

The Ex Oriente Film documentary laboratory comprises 12 feature-length documentary projects and 5 docuseries projects represented by director-producer or creator-producer teams who will attend 3 residential sessions and additional online sessions. “We Empower ambitious projects that won’t compromise on their story and creative language to fit in. We are always looking for creators who take us on a journey we didn’t even know was possible,“ organisers write. New deadline: April 15.

The dok.incubator rough-cut workshop announced April 3 its final selection of documentaries for 2025. “From the political and environmental changes of today’s world to the shifts happening deep inside us, the films to be developed at this year’s workshop all touch the question of adapting to a new reality,” the organisation writes of the projects from countries as far afield as Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Europe and the US.

DocsBarcelona Industry will take place from May 12 to 16. One of the leading non-fiction markets in Southern Europe, more than 800 accredited professionals from the European, Latin American, and international documentary community will have the opportunity to connect, co-produce, and collaborate on these 33 new and advanced projects. The selected participants will take part in various Forum activities: Public Pitch (14/05), Rough Cut Pitch (15/05), New Tech Pitch (13/05) and Speed Meetings.

Finnish Film Affair has put out the call for documentary and Finnish Weird (aka F-Weird) projects for its 14th edition, running 24 to 26 September 2025. “We accept projects from Finland, as well as projects with Finland as the minority production country. For our F-Weird series, we also accept applications with no connection to Finland, other than a shared flair for the weird,” write organisers. The deadline for applications is 18 May.

This weekend saw the presentation of the awards of the 47th Cinéma du reel. The Grand Prix, valued at a total of €8,000 was handed to James Benning for his film, little boy. The Cinéma du réel International Award 2025 was won by two films, In the Manner of Smoke by Armand Yervant Tufenkian, and Monólogo Colectivo by Jessica Sarah Rinland, with a split pot of €5,000. The ParisDOC Works-in-Progress prize went to Bahía Honda by Alejandro Alonson. All awards…

On March 25, Wolf Moon, a captivating project by Robin Petré, was unveiled at the CPH:DOX Forum. Moderated by Tabitha Jackson, the presentation offered an exciting glimpse into a film that promises to take audiences on an immersive journey deep into the landscapes of the night, exploring the evolving relationship between humans and animals in the age of the Anthropocene.

The winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2025 were announced during the March 28 award show in Copenhagen. The competition line-up included a total of 71 films across 6 different categories, featuring 56 world premieres. The DOX:AWARD went to Always by Deming Chen. The F:ACT AWARD ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka by Mstyslav Chernov; the HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD to 9-MONTH CONTRACT by Ketevan Vashagashvili, and the NORDIC:DOX AWARD to Walls – Akinni Inuk.

The talk Collective Action, Collective Power, presented in partnership with Documentary Campus and held as part of this year’s CPH:DOX Conference on 25 March, brought together a distinguished group of panellists to discuss the potential of collective organising in reshaping the documentary ecosystem. “There’s an audience out there tired of being spoon-fed by algorithms. They want engaging, meaningful content—they just can’t find it,” said former Sundance Institute CEO Keri Putnam.

UK production outfit Hopscotch Films returned to CPH:DOX Forum with Story of Documentary Film, the latest epic by revered filmmaker Mark Cousins. Following on from their collaborations on The Story of Film: An Odyssey and Women Make Film, this new 16x60-minute series sets out to tell the definitive story of non-fiction cinema—"boldly feminist, jargon-free, and truly global in scope."