The Doc Around Europe film festival network brings together six relevant documentary film festivals throughout the continent. Together with partner festivals – FIPADOC, Dokfest München, DocsBarcelona, MakeDox and Biografilm – Verzió works on activities dedicated to emerging talents in the documentary film industry.
The aim of the network linking the six European documentary film festivals is to promote the circulation of documentary films and to support young film professionals, especially directors of first and second feature documentaries from the regions represented by each festival, and to facilitate the sharing of experience and the international exposure of the filmmakers and their works, as well as their projects in different stages of development.
The talents from the partner festvials' regions will have the opportunity to participate in the Verzió DocLab and Young Critics workshops and present their films in the Doc Future Competition.
The six partner festivals:
FIPADOC (Biarritz, France | 24 January - 1 February 2025)
DOK.Fest München (München, Germany | 7-18 May 2025)
DocsBarcelona (Barcelona, Spain | 8-18 May 2025)
Biografilm (Bologna, Italy | 6-16 June 2025)
MakeDox (Skopje, North Macedonia | 21-28 August 2025)
Verzió (Budapest, Hungary | 11-19 November 2025)
Participating films and filmmakers from Hungary in 2025:
FIPADOC
- Mila Taraczky in the Young Europeans Jury
- How Did I Get Here? (Dorottya Márton, Hungary, 2024, 30 min), and
- Home is 1117 km away (Marta Smerechynska, Hungary, Ukraine, Belgium, Portugal, 2024, 14 min)
in the New Talent selection.
Patricia D'Intino and Julianna Ugrin producers take part in the Producers Meet Producers industry program.
DOK.Fest München
- Beyond Rock Bottom (Mélypont érzés, d. Ádám Miklós, Hungary, 2024, 86 min)
DOK.Fest München 2025 program: https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Filme
DocsBarcelona
- How Did I Get Here? (Dorottya Márton, Hungary, 2024, 30 min) in the DOC-U section
DocsBarcelona 2025 program: https://docsbarcelona.com/en/festival/program/
Participating films and filmmakers from Hungary in 2024:
FIPADOC
- Anzs Forrás in the Young Europeans Jury
- Budapest Silo (Zsófia Paczolay, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium, 2022, 24 min) in the New Talent section
Check our piece of news about Hungarian documentary films at FIPADOC in 2024 here.
DOK.Fest München
- Fairy Garden (Gergő Somogyvári, Hungary, 2023, 83 min) in the Best of Fests section
Check DOK.Fest München's full festival program here: https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Filme
DocsBarcelona
- Budapest Silo (Zsófia Paczolay, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium, 2022, 24 min) in the DOC-U section
Check DocBarcelona' full festival program here: https://docsbarcelona.com/en/programme-2024
MakeDox
Hungarian films selected to the festival's Student Dox section:
- How Did I Get Here? (Dorottya Márton, 2023, 30')
Full program of MakeDox: http://makedox.mk/mk/en/
Participating films and filmmakers from the partner festivals' regions at Verzió in 2024:
Representatives of the countries in the Doc Around Europe Generation program in the Young Critics workshop:
Carla Aubert Yustos (Spain) // DocsBarcelona
Pauline Ciraci (France) // FIPADOC
Carolina Schmidt (Germany) // Dok.München
Glykeria Pappa (Greece) // MakeDox
DocLab workshop:
Illuminated Geology (Spain) // DocsBarcelona
Bee in My Mouth (Germany, Hungary) // Dok.München
Moving Sisters (Greece) // MakeDox
For the full list of projects in the DocLab 2024 workshop, please visit: https://www.verzio.org/en/doclab
Representatives of the countries in the Doc Around Europe Generation program in the Doc Future Competition:
Balomania (Sissel Morell Dargis, Spain, Denmark) // DocsBarcelona
A Shepherd (Un pasteur, Louis Hanquet, France) // FIPADOC
Where We Used to Sleep (Matthäus Wörle, Germany) // Dok.München
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking (Ko će pokucati na vrata mog doma, Maja Novaković, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina) // MakeDox
Participating films and filmmakers from Hungary in 2023:
FIPADOC
- Hanna Kádár in the Young Europeans Jury
Check our piece of news about our visit to FIPADOC in January 2023 here.
DOK.Fest München
- KIM (Erika Kapronczai, Hungary, 2022, 86 min) in the DOK.panorama section
Check DOK.Fest München's full festival program here: https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Filme
DocsBarcelona
- It Has Passed, and It's Fine (Zsuzsa Debre, Hungary, 2022, 28 min) in the DOC-U section
Check DocBarcelona' full festival program here: https://docsbarcelona.com/festival/festival-edicio-2023/programacio-docs-2023
MakeDox
Hungarian films selected to the festival's student film section:
- Counterparts (Boglárka Bicsák, 2021, 35')
- Budapest Silo (Zsófia Paczolay, 2022, 25')
Full program of MakeDox: http://makedox.mk/mk/en/
Participating films and filmmakers from the partner festivals' regions at Verzió in 2023:
Representatives of the countries in the Doc Around Europe Generation program in the Young Critics workshop:
Carlota González Gómez (Spain) // DocsBarcelona
Jérémy Lévy (France) // FIPADOC
Jonathan Bugiel (Germany) // Dok.München
Petra Brankovska (North Macedonia) // MakeDox
Representatives of the countries in the Doc Around Europe Generation program in the DocLab workshop:
The Violent Skin (Spain, Costa Rica) // DocsBarcelona
One Day I Wish to See You Happy (France, Ukraine) // FIPADOC
Not a Statue (Germany, Cameroon) // Dok.München
Delta (Greece) // MakeDox
For the full list of projects in the DocLab 2023 workshop, please visit: https://www.verzio.org/en/doclab/previous-projects/2023
Representatives of the countries in the Doc Around Europe Generation program in the Doc Future Student and Debut Film Competition:
Light Falls Vertical (Efthymia Zymvragaki, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands) // DocsBarcelona
Last Call (Noah Cohen, France) // FIPADOC
Chagrin Valley (Nathalie Berger, Switzerland) // Dok.München
Snajka: Diary of Expectations (Tea Vidović Dalipi, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo) // MakeDox
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Doc Around Europe design: Samir Karahasan (MakeDox)
The Doc Around Europe network is supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA program.