Running from August 8 – 16 in the city of Prizren,
DokuFest 2015 will showcase a fine selection of 228 (out of over 3000 submissions) films from 43 countries across 6 Competition sections and more than a dozen specially curated programs.
This year΄s central theme is Migration, with the global, as well as the local and social context and its consequences, will be highlighted and explored through a number of events, including panels and discussions with filmmakers and invited international and local experts. A hand picked film program focusing on the issue of migration has been created.
The Spirits Diary by Damir Čučić (Croatia, 2015)
Competitions are at the heart of the festival and this year’s selection brings some of the finest work of non fiction cinema, as well as a great array of short fictions and experimental cinema and its, now celebrated outdoor cinemas. The Balkan Dox programme showcases works from the region΄s latest feature documentaries:
International Dox, feature and shorts competition programme has included a number of awarded and festival circuit docs, while the
National Short comes with 12 Kosovar docs (
read here the full line-up) and
International Short competition section will present 8 Balkan docs along with the international productions:
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off by Cem Kaya (Germany/Turkey, 2014)
On the rest of the competitive sections, the Human Rights Dox features, among others, Joshua Oppenheimer΄s powerful The Look Of Silence, while the Green Dox programme continues its presentation of environmental feature and shorts documentaries from around the world.
In addition to its competition sections, DokuFest presents annually a number of special presentations and thematically curated, out of competition programs.
View From The World, non competitive section will once again bring some of 2015΄s biggest films, including, among others, the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Citizenfour, The Wolfpack, Sundance winner of US Grand Jury Prize and The Pearl Button, Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Berlinale.
Logbook Serbistan by Želimir Žilnik (Serbia, 2015)
Other sections to mention, are film critic’s Neil Young survey of American independent scene in the
Uncharted States of America programme, the continuous exploration of music documentary landscape in the
Sound of my Soul selection, 15 experimental documentaries from Croatia at the
Golden Ages of Croatian Experiment programme, the
Short Matters section with two regional films,
The Chicken by
Una Gunjak (Germany/Croatia, 2014, 15΄) and
Pride by
Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria, 2013, 30΄), and the
Life is Elsewhere programme, comprised of shorts, among others,
The Time Of A Young Man About To Kill by
Neritan Zinxhiria (Italy/Albania, 2015, 20΄),
Leonardo by
Ilir Hasanaj (Switzerland/Kosovo*, 2015, 19΄) and
Paftuar by
Roland Uruçi (USA/Albania, 2015, 21΄).
With the occasion of death one of the world΄s most influential documakers, DokuFest 2015 will pay tribute to Albert Maysles, screening six of his films, including Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, as well as his last two films, Iris and In Transit.
With the words of Artisitc Director, Veton Nurkollari, “DokuFest is returning with yet another eclectic programme of films that is sure to amaze, move, question and surprise. We are delighted to be able to present works of the highest quality, both from emerging filmmakers and masters of the craft, to our growing audience”.
