Doclisboa is a documentary film festival in Lisbon , Portugal which held its first edition in 2002.
5-527: The Doc Alliance is a creative partnership of seven European documentary film festivals, including: CPH:DOX in Copenhagen; Doclisboa ; Docs Against Gravity FF ; DOK Leipzig ; Marseille Festival of Documentary Film ; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival ; and Visions du Réel Nyon. The organisation is based in Prague and was founded in 2008, with the aim of promoting the documentary genre. It
10-572: A commemorative plaque, the film director also receives a prize of 5,000 Euro to support their further projects. Doclisboa Doclisboa is part of the Doc Alliance — a creative partnership between 7 key European documentary film festivals. In 2020, Doclisboa was organized into six moments of programme across six months, in order to deal with the pandemic restrictions while presenting its physical screenings in Lisbon's main venues. In 2021,
15-833: Is financially supported by the European Union 's Creative Europe programme, Czech Filmfund and the Czech Ministry of Culture . Its slogan is "the New Deal for Feature Documentaries". The main project of the Doc Alliance is DAFilms.com, an online distribution platform for documentary and experimental films focused on European cinema, which hosts around 1700 films for streaming or download. The films include archive historical films and works by international filmmakers such as Ulrich Seidl , Jorgen Leth , and Chris Marker . The organisations also presents an annual award for
20-602: The Best European Documentary Feature Film. Each of the participating festivals nominates one film for the shortlist. The competition films are primarily creative documentary debuts by emerging filmmakers. The festivals also nominate representatives to the jury of experts, chosen from film critics from the festival countries. Since 2015 the award has been presented at an official ceremony at the Locarno Film Festival . As well as
25-483: The festival returned to its original, with a 11-day live format. The 19th edition took place between 21 and 31 October, with its original sections, featuring a total of 249 films. In 2022, the festival's 20th edition was held from 6 to 16 October, with films from all over the world, with competitive and non-competitive sections: the International Competition, National Competition, New Visions, From
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