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DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival
01—09.08.2025

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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.

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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

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A Whole New World
Interview with Eduardo Williams
Interview with Eduardo Williams by Niels Putman
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Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble
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Memory in Textures
Recalling Experiences Through Surfaces and Matter
Essay by Eneos Çarka
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In Cold Blood

Incident by Bill Morrison

Review by Jan Tracz
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Keep Filming
Palestinian Short Films Towards Liberation
Essay by Öykü Sofuoğlu
Valerija}
Lost Generations
Fractured Identities of Post-War Former-Yugoslavia in Short Films
Essay by Patrick Gamble
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Return to Cuckooland
Nikola Ilić on Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest
Interview with Nikola Ilić by Antoni Konieczny
Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories}
Saving Stories and Savouring Paradoxes
Anna Vasof on Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories
Interview with Anna Vasof by Savina Petkova
Between Delicate and Violent (Şirin Bahar Demirel, 2023)}
Re-Framing the Family Archive
Using Home Videos in Documentary Filmmaking
Essay by Patrick Gamble
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Love and Fiction, Our Saviours!

Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena

Review by Savina Petkova
*Jill, Uncredited* (Anthony Ing, 2022)}
Which Direction Home?
How Different Sources of Capital Direct Our Personal Agency
Essay by Fedor Tot

Reading List

Valerija}
Lost Generations
Fractured Identities of Post-War Former-Yugoslavia in Short Films
Essay by Patrick Gamble
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays}
Empire of the Sun

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays by Christian Avilés

Review by Olivia Popp
Behind the scenes of Les Chenilles}
The Caterpillar’s Journey
Noel Keserwany on Golden Bear Winner Les Chenilles
Interview with Noel Keserwany by Hoda Taheri
One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean}
“Oddly satisfying short film—LOOK!”

One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan

Review by Laurence Boyce
Vision of Paradise}
Mapping The Unfathomable

Vision of Paradise by Leonardo Pirondi

Review by Alonso Aguilar
Wolf Whispers (Chloé Belloc, 2020)}
Looking Is Not Seeing Is Not Feeling
Essay by Michiel Philippaerts
Solmatalua (Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade, 2022)}
Cosmos And Chaos And Cosmos And…
The Gravity Of Rituals
Essay by Jason Todd
Neighbour Abdi}
Green Screen Gringo Comes Into His Own

Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra

Review by Vladan Petković
Sierra}
Racing With Love

Sierra by Sander Joon

Review by Savina Petkova
Hardly Working (Total Refusal, 2022)}
Film Or Elevated Video Game Critique?

Hardly Working by Total Refusal

Review by Vladan Petković

Reading List

Handbook}
Bearing Witness

Handbook by Pavel Mozhar

Review by Savina Petkova
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Dania Bdeir: “Life is more liberating if we are able not to think in categories.”
Interview with Dania Bdeir by Niv Fux
Wolf Whispers (Chloé Belloc, 2020)}
Looking Is Not Seeing Is Not Feeling
Essay by Michiel Philippaerts
Silence Is A Falling Body (Agustina Comedi, 2017)}
I’ve Found Myself: I Am Another
The Nostalgia Found In Archival Footage
Essay by Dora Leu
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The Modern Aesthetics of “Cool”

Cherries by Vytautas Katkus

Review by Matthew Chan
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Mayday means mother

Airhostess-737 by Thanasis Neofotistos

Review by Līga Požarska
I Want To Return, Return, Return}
Grow Up and Return
Essay by Vladan Petković
Will My Parents Come To See Me?}
Performative Indifference

Will My Parents Come to See Me by Mo Harawe

Review by Matthew Chan
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Memory Ashes

Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

Review by Inge Coolsaet

Reading List

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Extra Bright I Want You All to See This

All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes by Haig Aivazian

Review by Matthew Chan
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Sparking Curiosity
Mo Harawe on Life on the Horn and Will My Parents Come to See Me
Interview with Mo Harawe by Wilfred Okiche
Listen to the Beat of Our Images}
Christmas Cards From A Worker In Austin
Let Me Exploit You: Short Films On Exploitative Working Conditions
Essay by Michiel Philippaerts
Naya — Der Wald hat tausend Augen}
Homo Lupo Lupus Est

Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen by Sebastian Mulder

Review by Vladan Petković
I Want To Return, Return, Return}
Grow Up and Return
Essay by Vladan Petković
A Present Light}
“It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness”

A Present Light by Diogo Costa Amarante

Review by Laurence Boyce
Brotherhood}
Of Fathers And Sons… And Daughters-In-Law

Brotherhood by Meryam Joobeur

Review by Vladan Petković
Sisters}
Who Rule The World?

Sisters by Katarina Rešek Kukla

Review by Panos Kotzathanasis
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Future Nostalgia

Past Perfect by Jorge Jácome

Review by Bo Alfaro Decreton

Reading List

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Nothing To Declare

Bab Sebta by Randa Maroufi

Review by Bo Alfaro Decreton
Perpetual Night}
Nocturnal Nurturing

Perpetual Night by Pedro Peralta

Review by Inge Coolsaet
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