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.