Ji.hlava IDFF has unveiled the 13 new US and Asian doc projects that will be presented October 29–31 during the festival’s New Visions Forum 2025.
These join the previously announced projects from Europe and Croatia, this year’s Ji.hlava Industry guest country. This year’s Ji.hlava IDFF will run October 24 to November 2.
The jury will bestow awards to the most promising projects of the Forum, in cooperation with partners: AmDocs, UPP, Soundsquare, Taskovski Films, Cannes Docs – Marché du Film, Documentary Association of Europe, Sheffield DocFest, Lightdox, Docs by the Sea, Meditalents’ LabDoc, and Jacob Burns Film Center.
JI.HLAVA NEW VISIONS FORUM 2025 U.S. DOCS (click here for details of all projects)
- AMERICAN BELIEVER Director: Expat. Producer: Expat. Genre: Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: September 2026
- CONVERSATIONS WITH EXES Director: Jessica Moore. Producer: Bohdana Smyrnova. Genre: Hybrid Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: December 2026
- DEAR YOU Director: Aurora Brachman. Producers: Holly Stanton, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Khaula Malik. Genre: Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: October 2026
- DIRTY DAYS IN FUN CITY Director: Elana Meyers. Producer: Hannah Ford-Keohan. Genre: Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: January 2027
- FREE JOAN LITTLE Director: Yoruba Richen. Producer: Christalyn Hampton. Genre: Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: November 2025
- NEWVILLE Directors: Pisie Hochheim, Tony Oswald. Producer: Tony Oswald. Genre: Documentary, Hybrid. Estimated date of premiere: January 2027
- WOOD STREET Director: Caron Creighton. Producers: Estevan Padilla, Caron Creighton. Genre: Documentary. Estimated date of premiere: December 2025
JI.HLAVA NEW VISIONS FORUM 2025 EAST & SOUTHEAST ASIA (click here for details of all projects)
- ANCESTRAL VOID Director: Thaweechok Phasom. Producers: Krittawit Rimtheparthip, Thunska Pansittivorakul. Genre: Documentary. Country: Thailand. Estimated date of premiere: January 2027
- BRAVING THE BREEZE Director: Sze Wen Kang. Producer: Sze Wen Kang. Genre: Reality TV / Mockumentary / Docudrama. Country: Malaysia. Estimated date of premiere: October 2027
- DRIFTING BY THE RIVER RHYTHM Director: Polen Ly. Producer: Daniel Mattes. Genre: Fiction with Documentary Aspects. Country: Cambodia. Estimated date of premiere: October 2027
- GOD, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN JEALOUS? Directors: Wulan Putri, Harryaldi Kurniawan. Producers: Wulan Putri, Harryaldi Kurniawan. Genre: Documentary. Country: Indonesia. Estimated date of premiere: December 2027
- THUNDER AND ROSY CLOUDS Director: Yi-chia FU. Producer: Flora Linghwa HUANG. Genre: Documentary. Country: Taiwan. Estimated date of premiere: June 2027
- WHEN A POET GOES TO WAR Director: Aung Naing Soe. Producer: Han Yan Yuen. Genre: Documentary. Country: Myanmar. Estimated date of premiere: September 2026
