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DX’Hub (Berlin, 28-31 May) unveils full Industry programme

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Nick Cunningham
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DX'Hub 2025 (photo: Dovile Sermokas)

The third edition of DX’Hub, the professional arm of Berlin-based Doxumentale, will kick off May 27, running for 5 days through to May 31. 

DX’Hub is a carefully curated gathering that brings together filmmakers, journalists, producers, creators, and thinkers who are looking to shape the future of non-fiction. Through workshops, talks, tool sessions, and conversation, the event seeks to foster exchange, spark new ideas and supports collaboration in an open, inclusive environment. “At its core, DX’Hub is about learning, sharing, and connecting across disciplines and perspectives,” organisers underline.

As in past years, one of the event’s central pillars is the Good Media Pitch (scroll down for further info), during which docmakers meet non-profit organizations, foundations, civil society organisations, research institutes, policymakers, brands, and media representatives to address the most pressing challenges faced by all of us, whether in societal, familial or environmental terms.

Schedule of DX’Hub 2026 events, all of which take place in Berlin’s Atrium Tower:

GOOD MEDIA PITCH
The Good Media Pitch brings selected documentary film projects together with stakeholders from media, politics, business, and civil society. “At its core are documentaries that aim to extend their impact through accompanying impact campaigns – moving beyond the screen into public discourse, social processes, and spaces for action,” organisers write.

The projects combine cinematic storytelling with strategic communication work: developing campaigns, alliances, and formats designed to sustain attention and enable long-term impact. Within the pitch, the teams present both their films and their impact strategies as well as their approaches to collaboration. The focus lies not only on content, but also on infrastructures of implementation: partners, platforms, and sustainable forms of cooperation.

“The Good Media Pitch positions itself at the intersection of film, public sphere, and impact – a space where documentary works meet actors capable of shaping their societal resonance,” DX’Hub underlines.

The selections are as follows (click on links for further details, plus Impact statement):

  • Across by Ji Kim (Germany, South Korea / 2026 / 90 min) Synopsis: Across follows a war crime case in Yemen to show how a war is forgotten by another war with lacking accountability. Cannelle, a human rights lawyer at ECCHR in Berlin works on a war crime case in Yemen. Despite the clear evidence, holding the European arms exporters accountable is not an easy task. STOP RWM, an anti-military group in Sardinia seeks to tackle a weapon factory on their island, RWM, a subsidiary of RheinMetall, for being involved in a civilian killing case. Jamal, a Yemeni refugee in South Korea, films himself striving to survive with his family in a xenophobic country.
  • Grace by Silke Botsch (Germany / 2026 / 65 min) Synopsis: Grace follows a recovering addict on an emotional return to reality after over 5,000 days of sobriety. AI-generated imagery preserves anonymity while revealing inner transformation. The film tells an intimate, raw story about community, self-reflection, and the global stigma of addiction. Inspired by twelve-step programs, it traces the fragile process of building a new life through honesty, mutual support, and trust—growing through connection with others who share lived experience.
  • 2 x Human Rights Beyond The Human? The two short documentaries within the project Human Rights Beyond the Human—each with their own distinct lives—challenge dominant legal frameworks by foregrounding more-than-human voices and Indigenous jurisprudence. Set in Nepal and Colombia, they explore the clash between Indigenous knowledge systems and dominant legal regimes that often fail to recognize the agency of invisible guardians of the land. Through intimate storytelling and immersive cinematography, the films reveal not only a struggle, but also a possibility of another path. Together, they offer a powerful reflection on legal pluralism, spirituality, and resistance to extractivism. Doc 1 by Belkis Izquierdo Torres, Lieselotte Viaene, Mariona Guiu, Rocío Westendorp (Colombia / 2025 / 24 min.) Doc 2 by Prasiit Sthapit (Nepal / 2025 / 23 min).
  • It’s All The Rage by Daniel Karslake (United States / 2026 / 90 min) Synopsis: It’s All The Rage is a feature documentary project that is taking a hard look at the sources of today’s extreme social and political polarization in the U.S. and at a number of viable solutions. The film will examine the role of partisan media and social media companies (“conflict entrepreneurs”) by exploring how they monetize our separation, fear, and outrage for serious profit. We’ll also be telling the stories of four everyday Americans who are working in their own communities to bridge the ever-widening gap between the Right and the Left, inspiring hope for lasting positive change.
  • No I’m Not The Mother by Kristian Naydenov (Canada, Germany / 2026 / 75 min) Synopsis: When Sana travels to Canada to donate her eggs to a gay couple, it soon reveals the hidden costs of the commercialized reproductive industry. No, I’m Not the Mother explores the lack of transparency in education around women’s physical and mental health, as well as the absence of adequate legal protections.
  • Sky’s The Limit by Mirjam Strugalla, Loïc Jourdain (Ireland, France, Germany / 2026 / 90 min) Synopsis: An Irish couple learns that all 3 of their children have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Instead of giving up, they face each day with humour & determination, pursuing every possible avenue to prolong their sons’ lives. They are confronted by the injustices of a global pharmaceutical industry whose profit-motive renders access to medical treatment unequal, and the failures of a public health system which leaves the family without adequate support. Sky’s the Limit explores the power of hope in the face of insurmountable obstacles and the importance of the present when the future is not guaranteed.

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