Documentary Shortlist 2027

Documentary Shortlist 2027

These are the documentary films vying for the 39th European Film Awards (Athens, 16 January 2027).

Watch how to enter the shortlist here and discover how the nomination process works here.

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Documentary Shortlist 2027
  • A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON

    ROOBAH VA MAH SOORATI
    France, Denmark, Iran, United States
    2025 | 77 min. | Documentary

    Millions of Afghan men and women live in Iran without permanent legal status or protection. Soraya, a sixteen-year-old Afghan artist, documents her own attempts to escape from Iran over a five-year period, us...

  • AMAZOMANIA

    Sweden, Denmark, France
    2026 | 95 min. | Documentary

    Digging into the Swedish journalist’s unreleased archives, documentarian Nathan Grossman flips a ‘White Saviour’ narrative on its head by juxtaposing extraordinary but deeply uncomfortable original footage with an alarming 2023 reunion, in whi...

  • BUGBOY

    Greece, Denmark, France
    2026 | 88 min. | Documentary

    BUGBOY follows George, a shy teenager with misaligned eyes who struggles to connect with others after his parents’ traumatic divorce. Finding refuge in the world of insects, he bonds with a cricket named Isabella, who inspires him to reimagine...

  • CITIZEN OSAMA

    France, Palestine
    2026 | 71 min. | Documentary

    In besieged northern Gaza, Osama, a former artistic photographer turned war documentarian, struggles to protect his wife and newborn while capturing devastation around him. Amid hunger, loss, and trauma, he persists, driven by duty and hope, offerin...

  • CLOSURE

    BEZ KOŃCA
    Poland, France
    2026 | 108 min. | Documentary

    After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw's turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones, and underwater cameras, he relentlessly sc...

  • EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET

    United Kingdom, Qatar
    2026 | 98 min. | Documentary

    Anti-establishment struggles and activism run in the veins of Glasgow inhabitants.
    So when In May 2021, a UK Home Office raid is launched at dawn on the first day of Eid, it triggers one of the most spontaneous acts of civil resistance in recen...

  • LA BELLE ANNÉE

    LA BELLE ANNÉE
    Sweden, Norway
    2026 | 95 min. | Documentary

    After the death of her estranged father, Angelica and her brother are forced to return to their childhood home – a big house in the French countryside overflowing with unspeakable clutter and the lingering presence of their despotic pare...

  • LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY

    LISTY
    Poland, Lithuania, Germany
    2026 | 75 min. | Documentary

    LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY is a portrait of contemporary Belarus told through stories of individuals who have endured imprisonment, repression, and exile – voices silenced by an autocratic regime.
    Each story reveals a distinct ...

  • NAZA

    United Kingdom
    2026 | 80 min. | Documentary

    In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.

    Directed by: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
    Produ...

  • QUEER EDWARD II

    United Kingdom
    2026 | 95 min. | Documentary

    In 1991, Derek Jarman sets out to adapt Edward II – a gay love story with a bloody ending – into a film that will speak directly to the homophobia of the era. New legislation threatens to criminalise consenting gay behaviour, and the tabloids are bayin...

  • REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION

    Czech Republic, Spain
    2026 | 95 min. | Documentary

    Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more t...

  • RESCUE

    Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Iceland, Germany
    2026 | 82 min. | Documentary

    In one of the most harrowing rescue missions in the Mediterranean, a Médecins Sans Frontières ship pulls a group of migrants from the sea. In the chaos, Yemeni father Hani is separated from his wife, Roro, and their young chil...

  • TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN

    PLANINA
    Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia
    2026 | 105 min. | Documentary

    TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN is an intimate, multilayered portrait of a mother and daughter living on Montenegro’s Sinjajevina plateau, one of Europe’s last great pastoral highlands. Each summer, Gara and her 13-year-old d...

  • TRACES

    СЛІДИ
    Ukraine, Poland
    2026 | 85 min. | Documentary

    TRACES follows Ukrainian women who, after surviving conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and torture during Russia's war, refuse to remain silent. At its center is Iryna Dovhan, a former captive turned activist and head of SEMA Ukraine, who d...

  • WHISPERS IN THE WOODS

    LE CHANT DES FORÊTS
    France
    2025 | 93 min. | Documentary

    Delving deep into the woodland realms, where lynxes, bears, deer, owls, capercaillies, and other river creatures roam, Munier not only seeks to pay tribute once again to the visual splendor of nature but also to capture the forest’s poetic ...