DOKUSTORIES
14/08/2024
PROCREDIT: A DokuFest Friend for 20 Years
11/08/2024
ORKESTRA SHKODRA - THE PURE JOY OF THE ALBANIAN LIFE AT THE FOREFRONT
The poetry in these songs is soft, pure and inviting either in companionship, or in dance, or in love.
11/08/2024
THE XXIII EDITION OF DOKUFEST COMES TO AN END
Even though going through the finish line of the festival there is a bittersweet feeling, we do recognize the magic these days have brought into our lives…
10/08/2024
THEN IS NOW IS THEN IS NOW
DokuFest has curated a selection of 11 non-fiction films that vividly illustrate the social turmoil that has unfolded over the past 50 years.
10/08/2024
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: IN CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR-EDITOR DUOS
When a director and editor are working together in tandem and harmony, magic happens.
10/08/2024
SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE X PATTI SMITH CORRESPONDENCES
Elaborating Alternative Co-Existing Spaces for Image and Sound
10/08/2024
NOTES ON SHORTS: SOME HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS
Not every dark tunnel has a light of hope, but with these films, we feel some.
10/08/2024
DOKUKIDS FULL OF CREATIVE SPIRIT
When you get over 100 kids together in room, you will have all the energy you need, and maybe a little more.
09/08/2024
RETURN TO KOSOVO - SPECIAL SCREENING IN DOKUFEST
There are many themes revealed in the documentary such as the trauma processing of the survivors, the power of the media, the reconnections and the ways we do not want people to not disappoint us in peace.
09/08/2024
WHO’S AFRAID OF PERFORMANCE IN OBSERVATIONAL FILMMAKING?
In observational filmmaking, the ambiguity of truth is significant because art imitates life.
09/08/2024
FUTURE x NEW WAVE: HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE
DokuFest’s mission to empower young, new voices in Kosovo’s filmmaking landscape has always been a core element both inside and outside the festival.
09/08/2024
PRESERVING TRUTH: THE ROLE OF ARCHIVES IN WAR DOCUMENTATION
These archives will be useful in the future…
09/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: THE GROUND WHERE WE STAND
While seclusion can be good and needful at times, should a life be lived in seclusion?
09/08/2024
IPKO IS COMMITTED TO STAYING CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY
IPKO aims to be a positive force in the lives of every community member by supporting cultural and educational activities.
08/08/2024
EFTERKLANG AND GEZEGEN: A SOULFUL TRIP INTO THE NIGHT
DokuNights keeps on bringing new ways of musical expression…
08/08/2024
MASTERCLASS BY SYLVAIN GEORGE
Exhibition, Underexposure, Overexposure
08/08/2024
TALKING SHORTS: A CONVERSATION ON SHORT FILMS
The ways to make visible a short film are not traditional and often there are certain paths that make them successful…
08/08/2024
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS
For DokuFest 2024, there are over 110 volunteers, and most are between the ages of 15 to 18, representing Gen Alpha.
08/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: A BIT OF A STRANGER
The themes and subject of this movie are very deep, very thought provoking.
08/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV?
Each spot on the earth offers its own benefits, but there is no place like home
07/08/2024
DOKUFEST’S VERY OWN LEART RAMA ON DOKUNIGHTS
Leart’s sound is powerful, cunning, and bright.
07/08/2024
TAIWAN PRESENTS AFTER THE SNOWMELT AT DOKUFEST
This film screening brings an opportunity to elevate cultural ties between Kosovo and Taiwan.
07/08/2024
WRESTLERS: RESOUNDED
A new soundtrack for Besim Sahatçiu’s 1975 documentary.
07/08/2024
ARCHIPELAGO PROJECT: A NEW WAY TO INTERACT WITH PERSONAL ARCHIVES
ARchipelago brings this combination of historical and personal materials to build new forms between which we can easily access information
07/08/2024
TRIANGLE PROGRAM: THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
The Triangle Program is a collaboration between three festivals: DokuFest, BIEFF and Vienna Shorts.
07/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: WORKERS WINGS
The director has harmonized the colors of the film with the fatal reality of working conditions in Kosovo.
07/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: REMEMBER2.HUMAN
The filmmaker has been inspired by the history of his country…
06/08/2024
DOKUNIGHTS WITH ALEKSI PERÄLA AND ELJESA BEKA
It was a truly wonderful night…
06/08/2024
AFTERWAR BY BIRGITTE STÆRMOSE BRINGS A STORY FROM PRIZREN, TO PRIZREN
We follow the stories of Xhevahire, Shpresim, Gëzim and Besnik in the past, present and future…
06/08/2024
NEW ORDER: FESTIVALS IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
This Dokutalk was dedicated to the ongoing challenges that film festivals face…
06/08/2024
BEFORE NEW ORDER, THERE IS CRISIS. FOCUS UKRAINE
DokuFest’s, New Order edition, focuses not only on one but on two countries where humanitarian crises are more than just media events.
06/08/2024
LIFE IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA-HOLDER
The four films share the same penchant for coming alive in front of the camera through the act of looking.
06/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: FRAN AND VERKA: OR A USUAL DAY IN AN ABANDONED VILLAGE
Perhaps the desire to live in your home is greater than the isolation outside.
06/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: THE DEATH OF A HERO
This short film manages to ironize today’s confused human relations…
05/08/2024
AGONA SHPORTA AT DOKUNIGHTS: SOUNDS OF LOVE AND LONGING
Traditional Albanian music is outlined in Shporta’s new album.
05/08/2024
A VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION “CONNECTING THE DOTS” AT SHANI EFENDI
The exhibition comes as a result of the collaboration between Kosovar and Serbian researchers.
05/08/2024
NATIONAL CATEGORY FILMS START THE COMPETITION TONIGHT
The audience must be prepared to sit and see authentic performances, personal and intimate.
05/08/2024
THE POWER OF FILM
This film is a beautiful, heartfelt creation and homage to film itself, and the power of storytelling.
05/08/2024
DECONSTRUCTING IMAGES OF MASCULINITY IN BALKAN DOX
Another part of the inner life as we know it slowly takes on a different light while being unveiled on the cinema screen.
05/08/2024
FILM ARCHIVES AND THE BALKANS: WHAT’S THE STORY, MORNING GLORY?
The question of remembering and forgetting is crucial nowadays, especially with the current oversaturated visual landscape that further suffocates the possibility of building images of the future.
05/08/2024
ENTRAPPED BY TIME: TWO DOCUMENTARIES ON THE RESTRICTIONS AND TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN LIBERTIES
Both Poljak’s and Ilić’s documentaries employ personal and subjective approaches to tell their stories.
05/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: THE QUALITY OF IMAGE
The film The Quality of Image by director Sezer Salihu is an experiment with the use of Google Maps images of roads in Greece.
05/08/2024
NOTES ON FILM: LIKE A SICK YELLOW
The film is a reconstruction of family memories extracted from the cassettes…
04/08/2024
47SOUL’S IMPACTFUL DOKUNIGHTS PERFORMANCE
They played their own unique eclectic style of music to an energetic crowd of listeners, who soon became fans.
04/08/2024
DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES SHINE AT SHORT FILMS SCREENINGS
Four films, one trip around the world.
04/08/2024
ODE TO CELLULOID AND THE LUNAR LIGHT
“Ode to Celluloid: Films about Films” is one of DokuFest’s special programs, which baptizes the opening of the Lunar Cinema on Saturday evening.
04/08/2024
A POETIC DOCUMENTARY ON BLISS AND LONELINESS
At the Door of the House, Who Will Come Knocking by Maja Novaković, is a lengthy and suspenseful narration on solitude and self-discovery.
04/08/2024
23 MILE DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE RISKS OF ASSUMPTIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH
In the aftermath of realizing what is right and wrong, there lies a fine line of considering assumptions as perceived and felt truths.
04/08/2024
DOKUTALKS #1: IN THE FACE OF URGENCY, WE HOLD HANDS
The conversation that took place tackled the particularities of each filmmaker’s films in the face of the ecology crisis, the importance of communities and collaboration.
03/08/2024
A FRIENDLY AMERICAN AT DOKUFEST
DokuFest is a success story, a testament to the power of a dream, and what a small group of people can accomplish, if they only keep going and do not quit.
03/08/2024
AÏSHA DEVI OPENS DOKUNIGHTS WITH UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE
From the moment Aïsha Devi took the stage, it was clear that this would be a special performance.
03/08/2024
NEW ORDER: DOKUFEST IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!
The opening ceremony brought together cinephiles and audiences to witness a reflection and a strong statement on the condition of humanity.
02/08/2024
DOKUFEST IS ABOUT TO START: NEW ORDER, SET, GO!
This year’s theme is New Order: a reflection and reaction to the complex fabric of global events affecting life, the future, and our responses to these adversities.
