DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival
01—09.08.2025
DokuFest is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Recognised as one of the top film and music event in South East Europe, DokuFest is an EFA-nominating festival for short films, as well as a BAFTA-qualifying festival for shorts. In August, it fills the cinemas and improvised screening venues around the historic city center of Prizren with a selection of more than 200 films from around the world.
Each year, the festival hosts international and local music performance during DokuNights, its popular music strand. Photo exhibitions, debates, master-classes and a lively city atmosphere all add to the charm of the festival’s charm, making it a not-to-miss event in its region.
Reading List
Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell
Recalling Experiences Through Surfaces and Matter
Incident by Bill Morrison
Palestinian Short Films Towards Liberation
Fractured Identities of Post-War Former-Yugoslavia in Short Films
Nikola Ilić on Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest
Anna Vasof on Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories
Using Home Videos in Documentary Filmmaking
Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena
How Different Sources of Capital Direct Our Personal Agency
Reading List
Fractured Identities of Post-War Former-Yugoslavia in Short Films
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays by Christian Avilés
Noel Keserwany on Golden Bear Winner Les Chenilles
One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan
Vision of Paradise by Leonardo Pirondi
The Gravity Of Rituals
Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
Sierra by Sander Joon
Hardly Working by Total Refusal
Reading List
Handbook by Pavel Mozhar
The Nostalgia Found In Archival Footage
Cherries by Vytautas Katkus
Airhostess-737 by Thanasis Neofotistos
Will My Parents Come to See Me by Mo Harawe
Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Reading List
All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes by Haig Aivazian
Mo Harawe on Life on the Horn and Will My Parents Come to See Me
Let Me Exploit You: Short Films On Exploitative Working Conditions
Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen by Sebastian Mulder
A Present Light by Diogo Costa Amarante
Brotherhood by Meryam Joobeur
Sisters by Katarina Rešek Kukla
Past Perfect by Jorge Jácome
