Documentary Film Festivals

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Welcome to 2camels' special take on Documentary Film Festivals from around the world. We've got a ton of info on 107 Documentary Film Festivals in articles, snippets, videos, photo galleries and links to festival websites.

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Documentary Film Festivals

Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: October

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Africala - African Film Festival (Mexico City, Mexico)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: April

Africala - African Film Festival Website

Arica Nativa International Film Festival (Arica, Chile)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Arica Nativa International Film Festival Website

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Bahamas International Film Festival (Nassau, Bahamas)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: December

Bahamas International Film Festival Website

Belize International Film Festival (Belize City, Belize)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: January

Belize International Film Festival Website

Bogota Festival of Cinema (Bogota, Colombia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Animation, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Bucharest International Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: April

Bucharest International Film Festival Website

Buenos Aires Interntional Video Dance Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Festival Types: Film, Dance - Various Styles, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Buenos Aires Interntional Video Dance Festival Video

Buenos Aires Interntional Video Dance Festival Website

Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: November

CPH PIX (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: April

Cronograf International Festival of Documentary Films (Chisinau, Moldova)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: May

Cronograf International Festival of Documentary Films Website

Deauville American Film Festival (Deauville, France)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: September

Deauville American Film Festival Website

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Diagonale (Graz, Austria)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: March

Doc Lisboa - Lisbon Documentary Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: October

Doc Lisboa - Lisbon Documentary Film Festival Website

Doc Point - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: January

Doc Point - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival Website

Docudays (Kiev, Ukraine)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Human Rights, Film
Month: March

Docupolis (Barcelona, Spain)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: September

DOK - Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Leipzig, Germany)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film - Animation, Film
Month: October

DOK - Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Website

Dokfest - International Documentary Film Festival (Munich, Germany)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: May

Dokfest - International Documentary Film Festival Website

Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Prizren, Kosovo)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film - Short, Film
Month: September

Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival Website

Eco Film Fest (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Environmental, Film
Month: October

EcoVision - Fortaleza (Fortaleza, Brazil)
Festival Types: Film, Environmental, Film - Documentary
Month: July

EcoVision - Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
Festival Types: Film, Environmental, Film - Documentary
Month: June

Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: June

Edinburgh International Film Festival Website

Encounters - South African International Documentary Festival (Cape Town, South Africa)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: July

Encounters - South African International Documentary Festival Website

Encounters Short Film Festival (Bristol, England)
Festival Types: Film - Short, Film - Documentary, Film
Month: November

Festival de Malaga - Cine Espanol (Malaga, Spain)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: April

Festival de Malaga - Cine Espanol Website

Festroia - Setúbal International Film Festival (Setubal, Portugal)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: September

Festroia - Setúbal International Film Festival Website

Filmfest München (Munich, Germany)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: June

Flanders International Film Festival (Ghent, Belgium)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Flanders International Film Festival Website

Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Yerevan, Armenia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: July

Golden Apricot International Film Festival Website

Golden Globe Awards (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: January

Green Film Festival in Seoul (Seoul, South Korea)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Environmental
Month: May

Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Huesca Festival of Cinema (Huesca, Spain)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: June

I Shot Hong Kong Film Festival (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: July

Iasi International Film Festival (Iasi, Romania)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: September

Iasi International Film Festival Website

Indie Lisboa - International Independant Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: April

Indie Lisboa - International Independant Film Festival Website

International Cinematographers' Film Festival - Manaki Brothers (Bitola, Macedonia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: September

International Cinematographers' Film Festival - Manaki Brothers Website

International Documentary Film Festival - Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: November

International Documentary Film Festival - Amsterdam Website

International Documentary Film Festival - Novosibirsk (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: September

International Documentary Film Festival - Novosibirsk Website

International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille (Marseille, France)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: July

International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille Website

International Film Festival Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: November

International Film Festival Bratislava Website

International Human Rights Film Festival (Tirana, Albania)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Human Rights, Film
Month: March

International Human Rights Film Festival Website

International Human Rights Films Festival of Paris (Paris, France)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Human Rights, Film
Month: March

International Human Rights Films Festival of Paris Website

International Istanbul Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: April

International Istanbul Film Festival Website

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: July

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Website

Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Sport - Mountaineering
Month: December

Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival Website

Kenya International Film Festival (Nairobi, Kenya)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Kenya International Film Festival Website

Kettupäivät - Fox Days (Helsinki, Finland)
Festival Types: Film - Short, Film - Documentary, Film
Month: November

Kolkata Film Festival (Kolkata, India)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: November

Krakow Film Festival (Krakow, Poland)
Festival Types: Film - Animation, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: May

Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival (Limassol, Cyprus)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film - Short, Film
Month: August

Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival Website

Libertas Film Festival (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: June

Locarno International Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: August

Locarno International Film Festival Website

Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: August

Melbourne Underground Film Festival Website

Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (Mexico City, Mexico)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: February

Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival Website

Mid-Ulster Film Festival (Omagh, Northern Ireland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: May

Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Middle East International Film Festival Website

Midnight Sun Film Festival (Sodankyla, Finland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: June

Montreal World Film Festival - Festival Des Films Du Monde (Montreal, Canada)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: August

Montreal World Film Festival - Festival Des Films Du Monde Website

Moscow International Disability Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Charity
Month: November

Moscow International Disability Film Festival Website

Movies that Matter Festival (The Hague, Netherlands)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Human Rights, Film
Month: March

Nederlands Film Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: September

Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Festival Types: Film - Short, Film - Documentary, Film
Month: September

Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival Website

Norwegian Short Film Festival (Grimstad, Norway)
Festival Types: Film - Short, Film - Documentary, Film
Month: June

Odense International Film Festival (Odense, Denmark)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: August

Odense International Film Festival Website

Oslo International Film Festival (Oslo, Norway)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: November

Oslo International Film Festival Website

Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: February

Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou Website

Panorama of European Cinema Film Festival (Athens, Greece)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Panorama of European Cinema Film Festival Website

Plus Camerimage International Film Festival (Lodz, Poland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Plus Camerimage International Film Festival Website

Q Doc - Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Gay and Lesbian
Month: June

Q Doc - Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival Website

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Reno Film Festival (Reno, NV, USA)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: June

Revelation Perth International Film Festival (Perth, WA, Australia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: July

Revelation Perth International Film Festival Website

Reykjavik International Film Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Reykjavik International Film Festival Website

Rome Film Festival (Rome, Italy)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival (San Jose, CA, USA)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival Website

Sofia International Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: March

Sofia International Film Festival Website

St. Anton Film Festival (St. Anton, Austria)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: August

St. Barth Festival of Caribbean Cinema (Lorient, Guadeloupe)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: April

St. Barth Festival of Caribbean Cinema Website

St. Petersburg Student Film Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Animation, Film - Documentary
Month: September

St. Petersburg Student Film Festival Website

Sydney Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: June

Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: April

Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival Website

Tenerife International Film festival (Tenerife, Spain)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: April

Tenerife International Film festival Website

The Longest Night Film Festival (Hobart, TAS, Australia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film
Month: June

Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Thessaloniki International Film Festival Website

Torino Film Festival (Turin, Italy)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: November

Toronto International Environmental Film and Video Festival (Toronto, Canada)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film, Environmental
Month: September

Toronto International Environmental Film and Video Festival Website

Transylvania International Film Festival (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: June

Transylvania International Film Festival Website

Tribeca Film Festival (New York, NY, USA)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: April

Tromso International Film Festival (Tromso, Norway)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: January

Tromso International Film Festival Website

Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden)
Festival Types: Film - Short, Film - Animation, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Uppsala International Short Film Festival Website

Valladolid International Film Festival (Valladolid, Spain)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Valladolid International Film Festival Website

Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Vancouver International Film Festival Website

Vienna International Film Festival (Vienna, Austria)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Vienna International Film Festival Website

Vietnam International Film Festival (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: October

Vietnam International Film Festival Photos

Vietnam International Film Festival Website

Vilnius International Film Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: March

Vilnius International Film Festival Website

Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville, VA, USA)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Visionale - Hessian Youth Media Festival (Frankfurt, Germany)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Film
Month: November

Visionale - Hessian Youth Media Festival Website

Vladivostok International Film Festival (Vladivostok, Russia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: September

Vladivostok International Film Festival Photos

Vladivostok International Film Festival Website

Wairoa Maori Film Festival (Wairoa, New Zealand)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Indigenous
Month: June

Warsaw International Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Warsaw International Film Festival Website

Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film (Warsaw, Poland)
Festival Types: Film - Documentary, Human Rights, Film
Month: December

Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film Website

Waterford Film Festival (Waterford, Ireland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: November

World Film Festival of Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Short, Film - Documentary
Month: November

Zagreb Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary, Film - Short
Month: October

Zurich Film Festival (Zurich, Switzerland)
Festival Types: Film, Film - Documentary
Month: September

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