The 52nd Cracow Film Festival, Poland’s oldest and most important documentary festival, is set to begin on May 28, 2012. It will also be the seventh time we will announce the WATCH DOCS nominations for the most interesting films dealing with the broad theme of human rights, i.e. an invitation to screen in competition at [...]

As an expression of support for the democratic changes in Burma, WATCH DOCS festival will present the winning movies from Rangoon’s The Art of Freedom film festival in the course of one special evening. This festival was held under the auspices of pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and was organised by Burmese comic and [...]

Two more films from the program of the 11th WATCH DOCS IFF are available on our free VOD channel (geo-restricted to Poland only!). “Belorussian Dream” by Elena Kibalchich (2011 WATCH DOCS Audience Award Winner) portrays the gruesome Belorussian reality from the perspective of an average young man (http://kinoplex.gazeta.pl). A Dutch documentary “Justice for Sergiei” by [...]

The 10th edition of the Traveling Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film will visit nearly 40 Polish cities and towns from March to November 2012. First festival was held in early March in Tarnowskie Góry, where WATCH DOCS had its second edition. Eight days of screenings in the Olbrzym Cinema offered 32 documentaries [...]

The campaign FREE PACO NOW accompanies the documentary Give Up Tomorrow, which was presented at the 11th Watch Docs IFF. Its goal is to set free the protagonist of the film, Paco Larrañaga, who has been serving a prison sentence for the last 14years. Fairness of the process has been raising a lot of doubts. [...]