List of documentary film festivals
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Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.
Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[1]
In many cities around the world, documentary film festivals are held annually to showcase documentaries made that year. Many of them are theme or genre specific.
Africa
| Name | Est. | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockanema | 2006 | Maputo |  Mozambique |
www.dockanema.org |
| Instidoc | 2014 | Maputo | Mozambique |
instidoc.wordpress.com |
| Encounters | 1999 | Cape Town, Johannesburg |  South Africa |
www.encounters.co.za |
| Real Life Documentary Festival | Accra |  Ghana |
http://www.sudburycinema.com/ | |
|AIFF |1999 |Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |www.addisfilmfestival.org |- |-
Asia
Europe
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Middle East
| Name | Est. | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival | 2005 | Doha |  Qatar |
http://www.aljazeera.net |
| "Cinema Vérité" Iran International Documentary Film Festival | Tehran |  Iran |
www.defc.ir/en/festival | |
| Docaviv International Film Festival | 1998 | Tel Aviv |  Israel |
www.docaviv.co.il |
| Docudays - Beirut International Documentary Film Festival | 1999 | Beirut |  Lebanon |
www.docudays.com |
| Dox Box - Ayyam Cinema Al Waqe | 2008 | Damascus |  Syria |
www.dox-box.org |
North and South America
Oceania
| Name | Est. | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antenna Documentary Festival | 2010 | Sydney |  Australia |
http://antennafestival.org/ |
| Ânûû-rû Âboro - Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples | 2007 | Pwêêdi Wiimiâ (Poindimié) |  New Caledonia |
http://www.anuuruaboro.com/ |
| Documentary Edge Festival | 2005 | Auckland and Wellington |  New Zealand |
http://www.docnz.org.nz |
| FIFO - Pacific International Documentary Film Festival | 2004 |  Tahiti |
http://en.fifo-tahiti.com | |
| Melbourne Documentary Film Festival | 2016 | Melbourne | Australia |
http://www.mdff.org.au |
References
- ↑ Nichols, Bill (1998). "Foreword". In Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeannette. Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2639-8.
- ↑ "History | AFO | Academia Film Olomouc". www.afo.cz. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
- ↑ "INPUT festival 2015". Beeld en Geluid. Retrieved 2016-01-05.