Doxumentale 2026 winners have been announced

"Redlight to Limelight" wins this year’s Doxumentale Award for Best Documentary Film, "Trade Secret" and "Miss Jobson" got a special mention – and the best part is, you can still watch them till Sunday.

Summer Nights: Your Guide to This Weekend's Open-Air Screenings

There is something truly special about cinema under the open sky: the quiet buzz before the film begins, a cold drink in hand, and Berlin's summer atmosphere all around you. As the city moves into its most beautiful months, open-air screenings are the perfect way to welcome the season.

Dance is Universal, and Yet so Personal

The documentary "Omega wants to Dance" follows people across Asia, Europe, North and Latin America and showing how movement reveals identity, belonging, and social change within different cultural contexts – and asks: what truly moves us?

Beyond Film: Alan Kwan on Scent and the Role of Video Games

We sat down with Alan Kwan to discuss his video game, Scent, and the role this format can play in the non-fiction world, and further.

"Making this film helped me not completely lose hope"

The young artist Soraya Akhlaghi co-directed a documentary with Mehrdad Oskouei while fleeing from Iran. The film was entirely shot on a smartphone camera, directed remotely and created under adverse conditions.

From the Congo to Kashmir: French (Co-)Productions at Doxumentale

"This film is a very African film that had to be Swiss to survive"

An interview with Director Damien Hauser and Producer Kaleem Aftab on the making of Memory of Princess Mumbi and making films with today's technology.

Her Own Witness

At Doxumentale 2026, the "Female Lens" program gathers documentary films, podcasts, and books in which women control their own stories — and change everything.

"She wanted to inject art directly into the city’s bloodstream"

Toby Perl Freilich’s documentary Maintenance Artist is about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a pioneer of performance art who wrote the Manifesto for Maintenance Art in 1969. In this interview, the director talks about an extraordinary artist.