Awards & Fellowships   

Millennium Docs Against Gravity

A leading European doc festival that celebrates bold and socially engaged cinema, this year's edition took place in Poland May 15–17.

✦ Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s To Hold a Mountain won the Grand Prix Bank Millennium Award

Premios Platino

Recognizing excellence in Ibero-American cinema, the ceremony highlights outstanding achievements across the region and took place in the Mexican Riviera Maya on May 9. 

✦ Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics won the award for Best Ibero-American Documentary

South Asian Film Festival of Montreal

The festival showcasing South Asian storytelling and diasporic voices across film genres was held May 1–10.  

✦ Chithra Jeyaram’s Love Chaos Kin won the Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary

South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles

Highlighting cinema from Southeast Europe and its global diaspora, the festival was held April 20–May 9.

✦ Alisa Kovalenko’s My Dear Theo won an Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography in Documentary Film 

Gopo Awards

Romania's national film awards took place April 30.

✦ Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s TATA won Best Documentary Film 

Festivals & Screenings 

Tribeca Festival

The festival is held in NYC June 3–14.

Screenings: ✦ Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Mike Attie’s Hollywood Does Abortion (World Premiere) ✦ Cynthia Lowen’s Kids Like Me (World Premiere) ✦ Gabriela Díaz Arp’s Matitninó (World Premiere) ✦ Habiba Nosheen’s The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony (World Premiere) ✦ Natalie Baszile and Hyacinth Parker’s Harvest (World Premiere) ✦ (AlumNest) Aurora Brachman’s When the Revolution Doesn’t Come ✦ (AlumNest) Violet Du Feng's Only the Lonely

Sheffield DocFest 

One of the world's leading doc festivals, Sheffield will take place June 10–15.

Screenings ✦ Gabriela Díaz Arp’s Matininó ✦ Jeanie Finlay’s All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea ✦ (AlumNest) Maite Alberdi’s Un hijo propio (A Child of My Own)⁣ ✦ (AlumNest) Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Steal this Story Please!⁣

⁣MeetMarket⁣ ✦ Sara Chishti’s Taxi Driver⁣ ✦ Alyse Shorland’s The People’s Network

⁣Industry program ⁣ ✦ The Art of Storytelling Director Masterclass with Maite Alberdi ✦ Five Myths About Film Distribution (and the Truths Worth Knowing) with Board Member Christie Marchese, moderated by Jeanie Finlay and Suzanne Alizart⁣ ✦ Making a Living: A Working Session on Sustainable Practice facilitated by Lindsey Dryden⁣ ✦ Silenced: How Power Adapts to Suppress Women with Gabriela Díaz Arp⁣

DC/DOX 2026 

DC/DOX is a festival and industry gathering in Washington, DC, showcasing international nonfiction storytelling and contemporary political and cultural themes. The festival will take place June 11–14.

Screenings ✦ Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs’ Kids Like Me⁣  ✦ Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig’s Jaripeo ✦ Natalie Baszile and Hyacinth Parker’s Harvest ✦ Viv Li’s Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest ✦ (AlumNest) Aurora Brachman’s When the Revolution Doesn’t Come ✦ (AlumNest) Leah Galant's Landscapes of Memory ✦ (AlumNest) Maite Alberdi’s Un hijo propio (A Child of My Own)⁣ ✦ (AlumNest) Michèle Stephenson’s True North ✦ (AlumNest) Kenya Jade Pinto’s Signal to Noise

Reality Check Forum ✦ Signal to Noise with Kenya Jade Pinto ✦ Archival Storytelling & the Documentary Imagination with Michèle Stephenson  ✦ Persistence of Vision: The Long Life of Documentary with Shalini Kantayya  ✦ Beyond the Film: Building the Documentary Ecosystem with Catherine Gund  ✦ Ideas are Cheap: What Development Really Means with Penny Lane ✦ Cutting Through Crisis: Editing Masterclass with Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Stephen Maing ✦ Seed Money: A Funding Case Study with CEO Jenni Wolfson 

Cannes Docs

The documentary strand of the Cannes Film Festival showcases international nonfiction work in progress, completed films, and industry conversations on the Croisette. It took place May 14–19. 

Panels and keynote ✦ Viv Li at DAE’s  'Ask Me Anything' Consultations ✦ Ema Ryan Yamazaki at Doc Day—The Edit IS The Film Spotlighted Project ✦ Svitlana Lishchynska’s Crossing Oxus

Docs in progress ✦ Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, and Arya Rothe’s Green is the Fire’s Tint  ✦ Rand Beiruty’s Portrait of A ✦ (AlumNest) Tana Gilbert’s Burning Daddy 

Editing Room (Cinema De Demain) ✦ Ash Goh Hua’s Untitled Durian Film

Rooftop Films

A New York-based film series and festival that showcases independent cinema in outdoor community settings.

✦ Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig’s Jaripeo (June 4) ✦ Elana Meyers and Katie Heiserman’s Survival Without Rent (July 31)

NewFest Pride

A celebration of LGBTQ+ film and media presented by NewFest, New York’s leading LGBTQ+ film organization, will take place May 28–June 1.

✦ Luchina Fisher’s The Dads 

Streaming 

✦ Kimi Takesue’s Onlookers, as well as her full filmography, is streaming on The Criterion Channel  ✦ Vicky Du’s Light of the Setting Sun is now streaming on PBS ✦ So Yun Um’s Liquor Store Dreams is now streaming on Kanopy (accessible with a library card!)