List of documentary film festivals

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.

Name	Est.	City	Country
10 Under 10 Film Festival	2002	Austin, Texas	United States
Academia Film Olomouc	1966^[2]	Olomouc	Czech Republic
AFI Docs	2003	Washington, D.C.	United States
ALBA Human Rights Documentary Film Festival	2011	New York City	United States
Atlanta DocuFest	2005	Atlanta, Georgia	United States
Berlin Documentary Forum	2010	Berlin	Germany
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival	2003	Missoula, Montana	United States
Camden International Film Festival	2005	Camden, Maine	United States
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival	2010	Chagrin Falls, Ohio	United States
Chicago International Documentary Festival	2003	Chicago, Illinois	United States
China Screen	2007	Paris	France
Cine Pobre Film Festival	2002	La Paz, Baja California Sur	Mexico
Cinéma du Réel	1978	Paris	France
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival - CPH:DOX	2003	Copenhagen	Denmark
Development Film Festival	2005	Chennai	India
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival	2009	Gyeonggi-do	South Korea
Doc LA - Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival	2010	Los Angeles, California	United States
Doc NYC	2010	New York City	United States
Docaviv International Film Festival	1998	Tel Aviv	Israel
Dockanema	2006	Maputo	Mozambique
Doclisboa	2003	Lisbon	Portugal
Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival	2003	Glasgow, Scotland	United Kingdom
Documentary Edge Festival	2005	Auckland and Wellington	New Zealand
Docville	2005	Leuven	Belgium
Dok Leipzig	1955	Leipzig	Germany
Dokufest	2001	Prizren	Kosovo
DORF	2007	Vinkovci	Croatia
Dox Box	2008	Damascus	Syria
DOXA Documentary Film Festival	1998	Vancouver	Canada
EBS International Documentary Festival	2004	Seoul	South Korea
Encounters Festival South Africa	1999	Cape Town and Johannesburg	South Africa
Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC	2002	Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta, Ibarra, Portoviejo	Ecuador
First Hermetic International Film Festival	2017	Venice	Italy
Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival	2010	Mumbai	India
Freedom Film Fest	2003	Malaysia	Malaysia
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival	1998	Durham, North Carolina	United States
Gran Paradiso Film Festival	1984	Cogne	Italy
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival	2003	Guangdong	China
History Makers	2001	New York City	United States
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival	1993	Toronto	Canada
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival	1992	Hot Springs, Arkansas	United States
Imagine International Film Festival	2004	Clearwater, Florida	United States
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam	1988	Amsterdam	Netherlands
International Health Film Festival	1994	Liege	Belgium
International Wildlife Film Festival	1977	Missoula, Montana	United States
Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München	1985	Munich	Germany
Io Isabella International Film Week	2005		Italy
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival	2003	New Delhi	India
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival	1997	Jihlava	Czech Republic
London International Documentary Festival	2007	London	United Kingdom
Margaret Mead Film Festival	2005	New York City	United States
New Media Film Festival	2009	Los Angeles, California	United States
Marseille Festival of Documentary Film	1989	Marseille	France
New Haven Documentary Film Festival	2014	New Haven, Connecticut	United States
New York International Documentary Festival	1998	New York City	United States
One World Film Festival	1999	Prague	Czech Republic
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival	2001	Portland, Oregon	United States
Portland Film Festival	2013	Portland, Oregon	United States
Punto de Vista. International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra	2005	Pamplona	Spain
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal	1998	Montreal	Canada
Sheffield Doc/Fest	1994	Sheffield	United Kingdom
Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival	2009	Utah	United States
Taiwan International Documentary Festival	1998	Taipei	Taiwan
Telluride Mountainfilm	1979	Telluride, Colorado	United States
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival	1999	Thessaloniki	Greece
True/False Film Festival	2004	Columbia, Missouri	United States
Underneath the Radar Documentary Festival	2006		Singapore
United Nations Association Film Festival	1998	Stanford University, Palo Alto, San Francisco	United States
ViBGYOR International Film Festival	2006	Thrissur	India
Visions du réel	1969	Nyon	Switzerland
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival	1989	Yamagata	Japan
Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival	2002	Yogyakarta	Indonesia
ZagrebDox	2005	Zagreb	Croatia

References

^ Nichols, Bill (1998). "Foreword". In Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeannette (eds.). 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.

[1] Nichols, Bill (1998). "Foreword". In Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeannette (eds.). Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2639-8.

[2] "History | AFO | Academia Film Olomouc". www.afo.cz. Retrieved 2015-09-13.

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