DokuTalks
DokuTalks brings together filmmakers, thinkers and audiences for urgent conversations about film and society.
Short Film Forum
A DokuFest platform supporting young filmmakers to develop, present and advance short film projects.
Forum Guest Country: Italy
DokuFest's partnership with the Italian Short Film Center welcomes Italy as the Forum's 2026 Guest Country, connecting Italian projects, filmmakers and archival cinema with Balkan producers, funds and decision-makers. This partnership is supported by Italian Embassy in Prishtina and Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Tirana.
Hybrid Cinema as Political Language
When the past, cultural legacies, and material heritage are forcibly erased or destroyed, how do filmmakers respond? This panel asks whether hybrid cinema can forge a new political language, one capable of challenging official narratives and reimagining what has been lost.
After Silence: Film, Testimony and Justice after Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Moving from testimony and the visible and hidden traces of war in Ukraine, through the lasting consequences of wartime sexual violence in Kosovo, to an intimate story of femicide, family absence and fear in Mexico, this DokuTalk explores how filmmakers use memory, digital traces and performance to create spaces for recognition, solidarity and justice.
Inherited Memory
How do filmmakers create a relationship with home when home is remembered, inherited, lost, or politically unreachable? Is home a place, a language, a family story or a filmic reconstruction? Kosovar diaspora filmmakers, alongside voices from other displaced contexts, explore what distance reveals, what it distorts, and how it changes a filmmaker's responsibility.
Who Helps a Short Film Travel?
A short film rarely travels on the strength of the film alone. It also needs a team that can communicate its vision, partners who understand what the project needs, and networks that can connect it to the right opportunities. This DokuTalk looks at the practical decisions behind a film’s journey. How should directors and producers communicate? When does a co-production bring real value? What do festivals, markets and sales agents look for, and how can filmmakers build relationships that continue beyond the first pitch?
Images of Resistance: When Documentation Becomes Activism
Images recorded during moments of resistance can do more than document what happened. They can carry a local struggle across borders, preserve memories that those in power may prefer forgotten, and turn witnessing into a form of participation.
About
Based in Prizren and taking place during DokuFest, the Forum connects filmmakers and producers from the region with European film institutions, funds, broadcasters, markets, festivals, distributors, sales agents and potential co-producers.
Grasshoppers
Fiction / Director: Hanis Bagashov / Producer: Kasiyana Angelova, Jérôme Blesson / North Macedonia, France
The Sweet Teeth of Ana and Her Mama
Fiction / Director: Đorđije Petrović / Producer: Jana Rovčanin / Montenegro, Serbia
The Rifts
Documentary / Director: Gogo Vanev / Producer: Félix Lambot, Nevena Semova / Belgium, Bulgaria
The celebration of letters
Hybrid / Director: Galina D. Georgieva / Producer: Ilina Perianova / Bulgaria
Silent Return
Fiction / Director: Dionis Prifti / Producer: Genc Përmeti / Albania
My Pants Are Your Pants
Hybrid-Experimental / Director & Producer: Durim Klaiqi / Kosova
Korridoret e Pritjes
Fiction / Director: Adrian Guri / Producer: Ajola Daja, Adrian Guri / Albania
For Whom Do the Bells Toll
Documentary / Director: Erlisë Beqiri / Producer: Ardian Dubova / Kosova
Cicë!
Animation / Director & Producer: Finesa Peja / Kosova
Betwixt
Hybrid / Director: Dita Xhaferi / Producer: Lendina Balaj / Kosova
