Documentary Association Europe

🎙️ Doc Talk | #EthicalFilmmaking How can better communication help foster safer and more equitable working relationships in documentary filmmaking? Drawing on legal and therapeutic counselling perspectives, this panel examines how filmmakers can build stronger working relationships through more intentional communication, building healthier and more equitable collaborations throughout the filmmaking process. Curated by DAE – Documentary Association of Europe (@docassociationeu ) in association with CIRCLE Doc Accelerator (@circleaccelerator ). 📅 Learn more about the panel, and add this conversation to your agenda! 👉 Link in bio over at @cannes_docs — #CannesDocs #MDF26 #MarcheDuFilm #Cannes2026

🎙️ Doc Talk | #IndependentDocumentary What happens to non-fiction filmmaking when media power becomes increasingly concentrated? As global media consolidation threatens already fragile ecosystems for doc cinema, this panel brings together visionary, multi-award-winning producers on the frontlines of the fight for plurality, access, and independent storytelling. Curated by DAE – Documentary Association of Europe (@docassociationeu ). 📅 Learn more about the panel, and add this conversation to your agenda! 👉 Link in bio over at @cannes_docs — #CannesDocs #MDF26 #MarcheDuFilm #Cannes2026

CIRCLE is heading to Cannes 🎬✨ Join us across a series of events dedicated to documentary filmmaking, collaboration, and meaningful conversations during this year’s @cannes.docs & @marchedufilm 📍 DOCS-IN-PROGRESS – CIRCLE Showcase 🗓 Monday, 18 May | 11:45–13:00 CEST 📌 Screening Room Lérins 1 Discover a selection of exciting documentary projects in progress presented to festival programmers, sales agents, and industry professionals looking for bold new stories and collaborations. 💻 The showcase will also be available online for Cannes Docs online badge holders following the onsite presentation. 🎙 DOC TALK – Communicating the Stakes in Documentary Filmmaking 🗓 Monday, 18 May | 16:30–17:30 CEST 📌 The Viewpoint (Lérins) Curated by DAE (@docassociationeu ) & CIRCLE Doc Accelerator, this panel explores emotional, ethical, and creative challenges in documentary filmmaking through legal and therapeutic perspectives. 🤝 CIRCLE Group Consultation 🗓 Wednesday, 20 May | 17:15–18:15 CEST 📌 Riviera H4, Marché du Film An informal opportunity for filmmakers and producers to connect with CIRCLE Programme Manager Agustina Figueras, present their projects, ask questions, and exchange ideas in a collegial setting. ✨ Attending from the CIRCLE team: Biljana Tutorov, Programme Director Agustina Figueras, Project Manager We look forward to meeting filmmakers, partners, and friends in Cannes 🌴

🎙️ Doc Talk | #CommunityCinema What makes a cinema more than just a screening space? Even though distribution is said to be in crisis, audiences are returning to cinemas - in search of connection, discovery, and shared experiences. This panel explores how filmmakers, cultural workers, and independent exhibitors are redefining exhibition through community-driven spaces, collective engagement, and new approaches to audience building. Curated by DAE – Documentary Association of Europe (@docassociationeu ). 📅 Learn more about the panel and add it to your agenda! 👉 Link in bio over at @cannes_docs — #CannesDocs #MDF26 #MarcheDuFilm #Cannes2026

🎙️ Doc Talk | #FutureOfDocumentary What does it mean to break borders in documentary today? This panel explores the groundbreaking networks reshaping the film landscape by creating new connections across geographies and communities. A conversation about cinema, power, belonging, and the future of international collaboration. Curated by DAE – Documentary Association of Europe (@docassociationeu ) & Film Comment (@filmcommentmagazine ). Learn more about the panel and add it to your agenda 👉 Link in bio over at @cannes_docs — #CannesDocs #MDF26 #MarcheDuFilm #Cannes2026

📣 Winner of the DAE Talent Encouragement Award 2026 🏆 KEINEM SEIN LAND / GERMAN DIASPORA by David-Simon Groß The DAE Talent Encouragement Award, presented by @docassociationeu , offers a one-off 60-minute consultation with a DAE industry professional for a Marketplace project — supporting emerging filmmakers in navigating the international documentary landscape. Among banana plantations and German flags, beer and mud, floods and myth, an ambivalent story takes shape — where past and present are in constant, restless dialogue. Congratulations to David-Simon Groß on this remarkable and thought-provoking project! 🎬✨ #dokforum2026 #DAE

The DAE delegation to @nordiskpanorama Forum is open to documentary producers interested in collaborating with Nordic countries and the Nordic documentary industry. 📍 Malmö 📅 20–22 September 2026 The delegation includes access to: • Producers Meet Producers • Curated matchmaking sessions • Focused roundtables • Networking opportunities with Nordic producers Selected delegation participants may also be invited to apply for pitching sessions and Forum meetings by submitting a project application. All nationalities and countries of residence are welcome to apply. Costs: Each accreditation as part of the delegation costs 1250 DKK (around 170€) per person (50% discount off the standard rate). Hotel rooms can be rented for the special price of 88€ per night thanks to a special deal with Nordisk Panorama. The Documentary Association of Europe can offer one scholarship to cover the accreditation and hotel of one producer. Please specify in your participation motivation if you would like to be considered. Application link in bio✨

We are proud to present the DAE Talent Encouragement Award at the 41st @dokfest München to “Keinem Sein Land / German Diaspora” by director David Simon Groß @davidsimongross and editor Fellipe Vergani. Presented by the Documentary Association of Europe through the @dok.forum Marketplace, the award supports outstanding emerging documentary projects with a tailored mentoring session designed to help navigate the international marketplace. Congratulations to the team on this recognition.💖

Congratulations to all winners of the 5th edition of MDAG Industry Awards @millenniumdocsagainstgravity ✨ DAE proudly presented the DAE Award to NAPLES, FLORIDA directed by Modesta Žemgulytė ( @modeze ) and produced by Akvilė Žilionytė-Khan (Artišokai). The award includes an individual consultation session with an DAE Senior Consultant, based on the project and team’s needs. We look forward to following the project’s journey💖

Got some doc-related questions? We’ve got experts!💡 Brought to Cannes by DAE – Documentary Association of Europe (@docassociationeu ), the ”Ask Me Anything” format is designed to offer tailored advice from experienced doc consultants. Sign up for a 20-minute session with one of the hand-picked DAE experts and bring your questions, tricky project issues, or career concerns with you — this is your space to ask anything! 🗓 The sessions will be held daily from 15 to 18 May, 15:15-16:15 at the Plage des Palmes (Goéland Beach). 📌 Advanced registration is required on the day before the session at the Cannes Docs venue. ⚠️ Open to doc filmmakers with a Marché du Film badge only, excluding those participating in our curated sections (Docs-in-Progress, Spotlighted Projects, Co-Pro Social Club). Explore the schedule and learn more about the experts ➡️ Link in bio at @cannes.docs — #CannesDocs #MDF26 #MarcheDuFilm #Cannes2026

Proudly announcing the full program of #DocDayCannes 2026! 🎉 Get ready for a full day celebrating the art of documentary filmmaking in Cannes – and highlighting some of the most vital issues of our times, courageously addressed by incredibly talented documentary filmmakers worldwide. 🌟 Featuring…… ✨ Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mstyslav CHERNOV (ʹ20 Days in Mariupolʹ, ʹ2000 Meters to Andriivkaʹ), President of the 2026 L’Œil d’or Jury, in conversation with Heleen GERRITSEN, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek. ✨ Iranian filmmakers Pegah AHANGARANI and Mahsa KARAMPOUR about their feature documentaries ʹRehearsals for a Revolutionʹ (Official Selection, Festival de Cannes) and ʹInto the Jaws of the Ogreʹ (ACID Cannes) – moderated by Isabel ARRATE FERNANDEZ, Artistic Director, IDFA, with simultaneous interpretation by Massoumeh LAHIDJI. ✨ Mark COUSINS (ʹThe Story of Documentary Filmʹ, Official Selection, Festival de Cannes) shares 10 unexpected images, revealing the essence of the artform. ✨ Oscar-nominated filmmaker and editor Ema Ryan YAMAZAKI (ʹBlack Box Diariesʹ, ʹAmerican Doctorʹ), reveals how editing critically shapes a film, the ways it can be specifically devised for sensitive works on difficult topics such as sexual violence or the war on Gaza – and how directors and producers can fully leverage the power of editing. ✨ A seaside chat with the team behind ʹOnce Upon a Time in Harlemʹ (Quinzaine des Cinéastes), originally conceived and filmed by the legendary William GREAVES, his son David GREAVES, and granddaughter Liani GREAVES, alongside AmDoc | POV’s Erika DILDAY. ✨ A live cinema performance by filmmaker Keith WILSON exploring the financial, emotional, and social costs of documentary awards campaigns. Curated by Heidi FLEISHER. Then, after the Docs-in-Progress Awards Ceremony 🏆 and the Doc Day Mixer 🥂, make sure to catch the Doc Day closing screening, ʹDetentionʹ, by Guillaume MASSART, produced by TS Productions, in coproduction with Triptyque Films – in partnership with ACID Cannes 🙌 📌 Save-the-date for Doc Day 2026, Tuesday, 19 May! Check out the full schedule ➡️ Link in bio #DocDayCannes

We hosted a small screening at our office and watched “Language Partisans” by @tanya.haurylchyk : a powerful documentary about the resilience of the Belarusian language and the people fighting to preserve it. This was our first event in this format, and definitely not the last. We’re planning to continue organizing film screenings and discussions around stories that matter. If you’re part of a community, initiative, or creative group and would like to host a screening with us, feel free to reach out, we’d be happy to collaborate and open our space to you 💖 The film is available on-line for free at @vodblisk