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Jooyeon Lee on creating Open City Documentary Festival’s 2022 trailer
Applications open to join our pre-selection panel for the 2023 edition
Entries open for the 2023 Open City Documentary Festival
Closing Event: In Conversation with Bo Wang and George Clark
DA Films x Open City Documentary Festival: Pathways
A Body in Motion, Love Left Behind
Chrystel Oloukoï on Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
Sarah Messerschmidt on Constant + The Making of Crime Scenes
Salvador Amores on Configurations
Mahan Moalemi on the Films of Maryam Tafakory
Update from Open City Documentary Festival following the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Laura Allsop on Foragers + An Excavation
Fernando Sdrigotti on Camuflaje
Huda Awan on Denim Sky
Cordillera Dreams : Ben Nicholson on Under the Sky Shelter
Jemma Desai : The Desire to write about George Green
Rebekah Rutkoff on Robert Beavers’s The Sparrow Dream
Matt Turner on It Is Night in America
Abiba Coulibaly on Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices)
Doing Things with Light: On Cinema and Magic [an apparition]
Open City x Another Gaze – Announcing participants of the Critics Workshop
Andrew Northrop on Anyox
Echoes and Mirrors: Elisabeth Subrin’s Maria Schneider, 1983
Beyond Romances of the Negative
NO SMOKING: Ruth Beckermann’s Mutzenbacher
Hasta que lo Esencial sea Visible
Announcing full programme of 2022 Open City Documentary Festival
Concrete Music: On The Films of Alexandra Cuesta
Announcing 2022 Opening Night Film
Announcing 2022 Programme Highlights
Open City x Another Gaze: Applications open for Critics Workshop 2022
Announcing Non-Fiction issue #4 “Peculiar Forms”
Rosine Mbakam on Delphine’s Prayers: Interview by Anne Feuillère and Vinnie Ky-Maka
Experiments In Liberating The Frame: Rosine Mbakam’s Confessional Cinema: an essay by Chrystel Oloukoï
Announcing programme advisors and pre-selectors for 2022 edition
Applications open to join our pre-selection panel for the 2022 edition
Announcing Non-Fiction issue #3 “The Living Journal”
Call for entries for the 2022 Open City Documentary Festival now open
Announcing the Award Winners of Open City Documentary Festival 2021
Navigating Faith, the Paranormal and the Psychedelic: an essay by Lamorna Ash
Subterranean Whispers: an essay by Fernando Sdrigotti
Wish You Were Here: an essay by Louise Benson
Dendrological Dislocation: an essay by Galina Stepanova
Ute Aurand and Renate Sami in Conversation
Announcing Participants of Another Gaze Critics Workshop
To Question the Habitual: an essay by Andrew Key
Announcing full programme of 2021 Open City Documentary Festival
Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Volunteers
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Juries Announced
Meta Incognita by Alia Syed at Mimosa House
Celebrating Haneda Sumiko – screening and symposium
Opening and Closing Films of 2021 Open City Documentary Festival
Applications open for Critics Workshop with Another Gaze
2021 Festival accreditation open
Unveiling first 2021 programme highlights
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Announcing our New Festival Director
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2021 – Our Pre-Selection Panel
LBGTQ+ History Month Non-Fiction Recommendations
News: Non-Fiction Mixtape 02 – Network
News: Non-Fiction 02 Is Shipping Now
News: Submissions Are Open for Open City Documentary Festival 2021
News: Contributors for the Second Issue of Non-Fiction Journal
News: Assembly 2020 Winner Announced – Gabriela Pena
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 Awards Announced
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Things We Dare Not Do, When The World Is Still New to Our Eyes
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Mayor, What It Takes to Run This Place
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The American Sector, That Wall
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Makongo, Meticulous Intent
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: A Radical Empathy, More Than Just A Motherland
Open City Documentary Festival 2020: Focus: Listening Against a Colonial Present, an Interview with Expedition Content’s Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Trouble Sleep, Organised Chaos
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Victoria, A Place Disconnected
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Suspension, The Granularity of the Concrete
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Lake and The Lake / Land Underwater, Stemming the Flow
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Building, Remnants of Historical Possibility and Failure
Assembly 2020 Mentors Announced
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Those That at a Distance Resemble Another, A Degree of Distance
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Purple Sea, A Boundless Expanse
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Viewing Booth, Maia’s Skepticism
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Bird Island, A Quiet Place
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Intimate Distances, A Predetermined Script
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Sunless Shadows, The Invisible Observer
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Songs of Repression, A Hideous Past
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: The Choice, This Orderly Family
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Once Upon A Youth, The Sparks That Might Burn Down The House
Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Focus: Faith, A Study of Devotion
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Request a Festival Brochure
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Full Programme Announced
News: Assembly 2020 – Selected Projects Announced
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 – Juries Announced
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 / Digital Edition
News: Call For Pitches – Non-Fiction 02
Focus: Frontierland: Shorts
News: Non-Fiction 01 is Shipping Now
News: Non-Fiction 01 is On Sale
News: Non-Fiction Mixtape 01 – Power
News: Open City Documentary Festival – Online Archive
News: Open City Documentary Festival 2020 / COVID-19
News: Contributors For The First Issue of Non-Fiction
News: Assembly 2020 is Open For Applications
