{"id":72870,"date":"2026-02-04T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/the-best-documentary-films-for-young-audiences-5th-edition-of-docs4teens\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:06:21","slug":"the-best-documentary-films-for-young-audiences-5th-edition-of-docs4teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/the-best-documentary-films-for-young-audiences-5th-edition-of-docs4teens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Documentary Films for Young Audiences \u2013 5th edition of Docs4Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five years of building cinematic bridges between young European audiences from Poland, France, Italy, Portugal, and Ukraine. Initiated by the Krakow Film Festival, the Docs4Teens project is celebrating its modest anniversary! This year’s exceptionally rich programme once again brings together the very best in documentary cinema for young people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n

Together with colleagues from Fipadoc, Dei Popoli, Docudays UA, and Porto\/Post\/Doc, we have been building a splendid, well-coordinated team for five years now. We curate the programme together, seeking out films that will resonate with young audiences from each of our countries, remarks <\/span><\/i>Barbara Orlicz-Szczypu\u0142a, founder of the Docs4Teens project and Director of the Krakow Film Festival.<\/b><\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe are enthusiasts who believe in cinema and see it as an excellent educational tool that teaches empathy and sensitivity. We are delighted that teachers share this vision, for it is through their openness that we can reach an ever-growing number of pupils. The programme is extremely rich but, above all, it is engaging and thought-provoking \u2013 we are fully aware of this, which is why we are holding workshops and discussions with experts after each screening, providing an ideal complement to the stories shown on screen,\u201d adds <\/span><\/i>Magdalena Walo, coordinator of the festival’s Kids & Youth Fest section<\/b>, which screens film from the <\/span>Docs4Teens<\/b> project.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The diverse <\/span>Docs4Teens<\/b> programme serves as an excellent starting point for initiating dialogue with young people about issues affecting their peers across the globe. The documentaries selected for the project address current and universal themes such as the need to belong, developing one’s passions, environmental activism, the search for identity, and migration.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The aim of the <\/span>Docs4Teens<\/b> initiative is to bring young people throughout Europe closer together through documentary cinema. The Krakow Film Festival (Poland), Festival Dei Popoli (Italy), Porto\/Post\/Doc (Portugal), Docudays UA (Ukraine), and FIPADOC (France) actively support the promotion and distribution of documentary films to make them more accessible to young audiences. As part of the fifth edition of Docs4Teens, each festival will present selected titles from 14 specially curated documentaries aimed at audiences aged 12-16.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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How I Spent My Summer Holidays?, dir. Antonio Lukich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Simple Divine, dir. Melody Boulissiere, Bogdan Stamatin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tough Moves, dir. Jakob Michal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Castle, dir. Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli, Stefano La Rosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Voy, dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

The selected films will be screened in 2026 during the festivals FIPADOC (France, January), Dei Popoli (Italy, November), Porto\/Post\/Doc (Portugal, November), Docudays UA (Ukraine, June), and at the 66th Krakow Film Festival (Poland, May-June), where five titles will be presented across three thematic blocks. \n<\/p>\n\n

All films selected for the fifth edition of Docs4Teens:<\/p>\n\n