Festival Data:

• Established: 2003
• Genre: Documentary (click to see)

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Over the past seven years, the Document Festival has built its reputation by screening films which critically engage with the world we live in at the start of the 21st century: stories at once personal and universal in significance, by emerging and established filmmakers from every country and culture.

Document 9 will screen work which explores the idea of human rights in its broadest definition and in a wide range of styles, from reportage to cinematic essays, from investigative journalism to experimental forms addressing issues such as: immigration & asylum; racism; miscarriages of justice; eviction; poverty; social exclusion; war and conflict; workers / unemployed rights; africa; palestine / israel; central / eastern europe; north & south america; roma, gypsies & travellers; kurdish issues; central asian former soviet republics; mental health & social care; hiv / aids; young people; women; human trafficking; indigenous cultures; environmental exploitation & disaster...

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.docfilmfest.org.uk/ forms/ document9-application-300311.doc