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Sensual, lyrical and textured, Jaripeo takes us into the heart of an obscured queer subculture of Mexico’s rodeo scene. Doc Weekly writer Jasmine Haniff spoke with directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig for the film’s screening at Visions du Réel.
Three friends are on the cusp of adulthood, caught between tradition and the desire to forge their own path. A Fire There, winner of the Special Jury Award at Visions du Réel, tells their story with poetry and beauty. Doc Weekly was there to interview director Marlene Edoyan.
Amid the sparkle and glamour of Europe’s most important celebration of film, it’s no secret that documentary is a neglected genre, but this year’s Cannes documentary selection has progressed from 2025. Here’s a list of all the documentaries showing, across the official and parallel selections.
After years away, Chinese filmmaker Vee Shi returns home to care for his ageing father, and to make a film about his family. Time and Tide had its World premiere at Visions du Réel and Doc Weekly was there to interview Vee Shi and Cinematographer/Producer of the film Nicholson Ree.
And the winners of the 57th edition of Visions du Réel are…
From the 17th to the 26th of April 2026, Visions du Réel is back ! Here are 15 films we’re excited to see : from Werner Herzog to John Wilson, from Hassen Ferhani to artists unknown, this is year programme is as rich and diverse as ever.
André is an Idiot is a comedic documentary about André Ricciardi, who’s dying of colon cancer. After putting off a routine colonoscopy for a year, André is diagnosed with cancer which, because of the delay, is terminal. That’s right, I said comedic.
Runa Simi takes place in Cusco, Peru, and follows a local man, Fernando Valencia, on his quest to dub The Lion King into Quechua, the largest pre-Colombian language in Latin America.
Doc Weekly was back in Biarritz for Fipadoc in 2026, boasting 150+ films from 35 countries across 5 major competitions ! Here’s a complete list of this year’s award-winners.
Four years after Ukraine’s full-scale invasion, Fipadoc is showing it’s support in 2026 for a cultural community operating under extreme duress and screening five films from the frontlines that have a completely unique take on the war and the profound impact it’s having on Ukrainian society, five films that communicate the visceral effects it can have on the psyche. Here are five films on Ukraine you must see in 2026…
Opening the 2026 edition of FIPADOC is a perfectly unique first feature about one artist’s pursuit of a singular experience: to sing a duet with a whale.
After exposing war crimes and the civilian toll of the Russian invasion with his Oscar-winning 21 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov joins Ukrainian soldiers engaged in the counteroffensive of 2023, the largest military operation in Europe since the Second World War. Here’s an exclusive trailer ahead of 2000 Meters To Andriivka’s UK cinema release !
Every June, the Champs-Élysées Film Festival brings together an exceptional selection of independent cinema from France and the United States to Paris’ iconic avenue. Here are 7 indie documentaries premiering at this year’s edition that are excited about !
Few ways of making film today offer richer ground for artistic expression, political thought and social critique than decolonial cinema. Here are 13 documentaries that deconstruct colonial narratives, featuring in this year’s edition of the Decolonial Film Festival, of which Doc Weekly is a proud media partner.
Are there any documentaries showing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025? Historically the genre has always been overlooked at Cannes, but this year’s selection is particularly poor in non-fiction. Here’s a list of all the documentaries showing, across the official and parallel selections.
At Visions du Réel, Doc Weekly interviewed director Denis Côté about his latest film, Paul, which has been garnering a lot of attention on the festival circuit since its world premiere at Berlinale earlier this year. Denis Côté's new documentary follows Cleaning Simp Paul, a man and online persona who's path out of depression and social anxiety has been subservience to dominant women as a cleaner.
Doc Weekly interview Ross McClean for the World Premiere of his short film No Mean City in competition at Visions du Réel, a film that questions that uses the Belfast’s switch from sodium to LED lighting to question the city’s wider transformations.
And the winners of the 56th edition of Visions du Réel are…
When Patricia Franquesa was blackmailed with intimate photos after her laptop was stolen, she faced an impossible choice. My Sextortion Diary is a firsthand account of life under digital ransom, told exclusively through the very technology that ensnared her.
