The festival will screen 96 long documentaries, ten VR projects and seven short films for children grouped in the traditional competition sections (International competition, Czech competition, You Have to Know, Immersive film competition), as well as in seven non-competitive categories.

This year’s laureate of the Homo Homini award is the editorial office of Abzas Media, one of the most important independent Azerbaijani online media.

Click HERE for the complete programme of the festival.

International Competition:

Venezuela: Country of Lost Children (Germany)
Directed by Marc Wiese, Juan Camilo Cruz

Hollywoodgate (Germany, USA)
Directed by Ibrahim Nash’at

A Bit of a Stranger (Sweden, Ukraine, Germany)
Directed by Svitlana Lishchynska

A New Kind of Wilderness (Norway)
Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

Agent of Happiness (Bhutan, Hungary)
Directed by Dorottya Zurbó, Arun Bhattarai

Flickering Lights (India)
Directed by Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan

KIX (Hungary, Croatia, France)
Directed by Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán

Life Is Beautiful (Norway, Palestine)
Directed by Mohamed Jabaly

Shaman’s Tale (Czech Republic, France, USA)
Directed by Beata Bashkirova, Bashkirov Mikhail

Silence of Reason (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia)
Directed by Kumjana Novakova

The Monk (Denmark, the Netherlands)
Directed by Mira Jargil, Christian Sønderby Jepsen