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13.03.2025
Open City Documentary Festival 2025 – Volunteers
06.03.2025
Opening and Closing Films of 2025 Open City Documentary Festival
25.02.2025
Open City x Another Gaze: Applications open for Critics Workshop 2025
09.01.2025
Announcing Non-Fiction 07: The Elephant
18.06.2024
Flaherty Seminar 2024 – self-organised pod in London
21.03.2024
Announcing full programme of 2024 Open City Documentary Festival
07.03.2024
Opening and Closing Films of 2024 Open City Documentary Festival
22.02.2024
Announcing 2024 Programme Highlights
13.02.2024
Open City Documentary Festival 2024 – Volunteers
24.08.2023
Open City x Another Gaze – Announcing participants of the Critics Workshop 2023
27.07.2023
Announcing full programme of 2023 Open City Documentary Festival
21.07.2023
Open City Documentary Festival 2023 – Volunteers
20.07.2023
Opening and Closing Films of 2023 Open City Documentary Festival
06.07.2023
Announcing 2023 Programme Highlights
03.07.2023
Open City x Another Gaze: Applications open for Critics Workshop 2023
26.04.2023
Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms: Restoring a Militant Cinema Network by Luna Hupperetz
27.03.2023
Lis Rhodes’ Disquiet
12.01.2023
Announcing Non-Fiction #5: The Obsolete and The Resurrected: Archaeological Cinema in Asia
12.01.2023
Announcing pre-selectors for 2023 edition
01.12.2022
Jooyeon Lee on creating Open City Documentary Festival’s 2022 trailer
22.11.2022
Applications open to join our pre-selection panel for the 2023 edition
17.11.2022
Entries open for the 2023 Open City Documentary Festival
28.09.2022
Closing Event: In Conversation with Bo Wang and George Clark
28.09.2022
DA Films x Open City Documentary Festival: Pathways
16.09.2022
A Body in Motion, Love Left Behind
15.09.2022
Chrystel Oloukoï on Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
15.09.2022
Sarah Messerschmidt on Constant + The Making of Crime Scenes
15.09.2022
Salvador Amores on Configurations
15.09.2022
Mahan Moalemi on the Films of Maryam Tafakory
09.09.2022
Update from Open City Documentary Festival following the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
06.09.2022
Laura Allsop on Foragers + An Excavation
06.09.2022
Fernando Sdrigotti on Camuflaje
06.09.2022
Huda Awan on Denim Sky
05.09.2022
Cordillera Dreams : Ben Nicholson on Under the Sky Shelter
01.09.2022
Jemma Desai : The Desire to write about George Green
01.09.2022
Rebekah Rutkoff on Robert Beavers’s The Sparrow Dream
01.09.2022
Matt Turner on It Is Night in America
31.08.2022
Abiba Coulibaly on Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices)
30.08.2022
Doing Things with Light: On Cinema and Magic [an apparition]
30.08.2022
Open City x Another Gaze – Announcing participants of the Critics Workshop
30.08.2022
Andrew Northrop on Anyox
23.08.2022
Echoes and Mirrors: Elisabeth Subrin’s Maria Schneider, 1983
21.08.2022
Beyond Romances of the Negative
19.08.2022
NO SMOKING: Ruth Beckermann’s Mutzenbacher
18.08.2022
Hasta que lo Esencial sea Visible
27.07.2022
Announcing full programme of 2022 Open City Documentary Festival
26.07.2022
Concrete Music: On The Films of Alexandra Cuesta
13.07.2022
Announcing 2022 Opening Night Film
07.07.2022
Announcing 2022 Programme Highlights
28.06.2022
Open City x Another Gaze: Applications open for Critics Workshop 2022
30.05.2022
Announcing Non-Fiction issue #4 “Peculiar Forms”
12.04.2022
Rosine Mbakam on Delphine’s Prayers: Interview by Anne Feuillère and Vinnie Ky-Maka
12.04.2022
Experiments In Liberating The Frame: Rosine Mbakam’s Confessional Cinema: an essay by Chrystel Oloukoï
03.02.2022
Announcing programme advisors and pre-selectors for 2022 edition
11.11.2021
Applications open to join our pre-selection panel for the 2022 edition
06.10.2021
Announcing Non-Fiction issue #3 “The Living Journal”
06.10.2021
Call for entries for the 2022 Open City Documentary Festival now open
13.09.2021
Announcing the Award Winners of Open City Documentary Festival 2021
07.09.2021
Navigating Faith, the Paranormal and the Psychedelic: an essay by Lamorna Ash
03.09.2021
Subterranean Whispers: an essay by Fernando Sdrigotti
01.09.2021
Wish You Were Here: an essay by Louise Benson
31.08.2021
Dendrological Dislocation: an essay by Galina Stepanova
31.08.2021
Ute Aurand and Renate Sami in Conversation
27.08.2021
Announcing Participants of Another Gaze Critics Workshop
24.08.2021
To Question the Habitual: an essay by Andrew Key
27.07.2021
Announcing full programme of 2021 Open City Documentary Festival
23.07.2021
Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Volunteers
22.07.2021
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Juries Announced
16.07.2021
Meta Incognita by Alia Syed at Mimosa House
15.07.2021
Celebrating Haneda Sumiko – screening and symposium
08.07.2021
Opening and Closing Films of 2021 Open City Documentary Festival
22.06.2021
Applications open for Critics Workshop with Another Gaze
22.06.2021
2021 Festival accreditation open
22.06.2021
Unveiling first 2021 programme highlights
26.03.2021
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Announcing our New Festival Director
26.02.2021
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Our Pre-Selection Panel
29.01.2021
LBGTQ+ History Month Non-Fiction Recommendations
07.12.2020
News: Non-Fiction Mixtape 02 – Network
07.12.2020
News: Non-Fiction 02 Is Shipping Now
26.11.2020
News: Submissions Are Open for Open City Documentary Festival 2021
05.11.2020
News: Contributors for the Second Issue of Non-Fiction Journal
13.09.2020
News: Assembly 2020 Winner Announced – Gabriela Pena
13.09.2020
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 Awards Announced
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Things We Dare Not Do, When The World Is Still New to Our Eyes
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Mayor, What It Takes to Run This Place
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The American Sector, That Wall
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Makongo, Meticulous Intent
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: A Radical Empathy, More Than Just A Motherland
07.09.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020: Focus: Listening Against a Colonial Present, an Interview with Expedition Content’s Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati
31.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Trouble Sleep, Organised Chaos
31.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Victoria, A Place Disconnected
31.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Suspension, The Granularity of the Concrete
31.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Lake and The Lake / Land Underwater, Stemming the Flow
31.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Building, Remnants of Historical Possibility and Failure
26.08.2020
Assembly 2020 Mentors Announced
25.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Those That at a Distance Resemble Another, A Degree of Distance
25.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Purple Sea, A Boundless Expanse
25.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Viewing Booth, Maia’s Skepticism
25.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Bird Island, A Quiet Place
25.08.2020
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Intimate Distances, A Predetermined Script
