Docs4Teens
Docs4Teens – Building Bridges, a new European festival network, was established on the initiative of the Krakow Film Festival in 2021 together with the festivals Dei Popoli (Italy), FIPADOC (France), Port/Post/Doc (Portugal) and Docudays UA (Ukraine). Its main aim is to promote documentaries among young people, as well as to support the international distribution of European documentaries aimed at young audiences.
The Festival dei Popoli in Florence is the most important International Documentary Film Festival in Italy and the oldest in Europe.
Porto/Post/Doc: Film and Media Festival emerged in 2014 as a response to the closure of cinemas in Porto city center. Programming over 120 films, the festival invites you to discover new, critical and artistically ambitious cinema, with an emphasis on documentary and new forms of non-fiction cinema (hybrid, experimental or animation). Every year in the month of November, the festival increasingly seeks to be a meeting point between members of the national and international industry, and between these members and our local communities – academic, political and social – with the aim of generating discussions around fictions of the real – the motto of the festival.
FIPADOC (Biarritz, France) is the first event on the circuit of major international documentary festivals every year. Over 8 days it highlights documentary in all its forms and gathers over 32.000 viewers in cinemas. With a strong industry background, it brings together professionals and the general audience throughout screenings, masterclasses, debates and conferences, and offers strong educational and emerging talent programs.
Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest events in the world dedicated to documentary, animated and short feature films. It core consists of three competitions of equal rank: documentary film competition, short film competition and national competition. During the eight festival days, the viewers have a chance to watch about 250 films from Poland and from around the world. They are shown in competition sections and in special screenings. The festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open-air shows and meetings with artists. Every year, the festival is visited by approximately 900 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, festival programmers and numerous Krakow audience.
Docudays UA – established in 2004 in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is a documentary film festival devoted to human rights issues. In addition to domestic productions there are also competitions featuring documentaries from all over the world. The event’s extremely rich program also includes films for children and adolescents. Films for younger audiences can be found in the non-competitive DOCU/YOUTH section.