DokuTalks
Explorations in the evolving role of documentaries in shaping how we understand the world.
Masterclasses
Immersive sessions led by acclaimed filmmakers offering deep insights into the craft.
Short Film Forum
Guest Country: Scotland
DokuFest and the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) partnership brings together emerging filmmakers from opposite ends of Europe for a collaborative residency grounded in storytelling, cultural exchange, and political consciousness.
About
A space where resistance, collaboration, and emerging voices take center stage.
RESISTANCE – Women of Peace and Justice in Former Yugoslavia and Albania
This conversation, organized in collaboration with Pro Peace and YIHR Kosovo, explores how contemporary reflections about women’s solidarity and acts of resistance can shape alternative narratives and pluralize collective memory.
Public Space as Cultural Resistance
Shkolla e Muzikës 'Lorenc Antoni' Sunday, 3 August, 17:00 hrs
Nobody’s Buying Your Short: So What Now?
An unapologetic deep dive into why short films don’t sell, and why that might be your greatest freedom.
Co-Produce or Stay Small
Jing Haase in conversation with the heads of Film Centres of Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro.
BEYOND SILENCE - Dealing with the Past
This DokuTalk is part of the 'Beyond Silence' Project supported by the United Nations Development Programme - UNDP
What Does It Mean to Watch?
Exploring the ethics of watching and filming in a time when apathy often greets atrocity.
Against the Void: How Artists Resist Numbness
Film as resistance: against silence, against apathy, against forgetting.
Reassembled: Collage, Memory, and the Hybrid Image
Examining the power of hybrid practices to create complex realities that reflect our contemporary experiences.
CROW FUNERAL
Durim Klaiqi, Kosovo | Hybrid / Experimental / Documentary
WHO IS SINGING?
Ana Morina, Kosovo | Animation, Documentary
UNTIL THE SUN SETS
Gledis Bica, Albania | Fiction
sveti antun pustinjak
Antonio Dimovski, North Macedonia | Experimental
SOIL
Kiril Karakash & Svetislav Podleshanov, North Macedonia | Documentary
SOUNDTRACK OF A PEOPLE: BOOM
Fjolla Muharremi, Kosovo | Documentary
I STILL HAVEN’T CRIED
Flaka Kokolli, Kosovo | Animation
DISCOBOX
Romina Ruda, Albania | Fiction
We left everything to build your home
Riad Arfin & Manushaqe Ibrahimi | 14' | XK/UK
THE WOLVES COME AT NIGHT
Leart Rama & Huss Al-Chokhdar | 16' | XK/UK
NA THOJSHIN LUTKO MOJA
Meray Diner & Dafina Daka | 10'30'' | XK/UK
