DocsBarcelona 2026 Films Recommended
Anna Kis & András Földes: 80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS
Actuality… one can say and you ask yourself, whether the post-Orban Hungary will be better to improve or restore, if you like, the conditions for the independent media. That’s one thing, the other is the universal pov that we have never needed free and reliable journalism as much as now.
Nathan Grossman: AMAZOMANIA (PHOTO)
It’s an amazing story with amazing footage – conveying the core question for all documentaries: who owns your story. Award at CPH:DOX.
Pepe Andreu & Rafa Molés: LA PIETÀ
I met Maria Colomer, artistic director of the festival and she said this about the film, to which I agree: “I felt compassion, tenderness, and, as suggested by the title itself, pietà, when watching the film. I think there’s great beauty in the film but also a deep sense of pain in the disappearance of the glaciers, with nature placed right at the center, something very difficult to achieve”.
Jukka Kärkkäinen: THE BEAUTY OF ERRORS
Jukka is one of these fantastic Finnish documentarians, who has what we call “his own handwriting”, being able to convey – with humour and love – what it means to be a man, a father, a son in a difficult life. Love that film, love what the director still does since he made “Living Room of a Nation”.
Lana Daher: DO YOU LOVE ME
Beirut. Lebanon. I have been there and I love to see this big KISS to a place by a director and her skilled editor Qutaiba Barhamji, who will make a masterclass connected to the film. I’ll be there.
Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros: LITTLE SINNER
It was at CPH:DOX, one of the best Danish films in competition because it is personal, because it is full of references to the world we live in, the crises in the Middle East, the generation conflict and Love. And what a protagonist for a documentary!
Kamal Aljafari: WITH HASAN IN GAZA
What else can I say… of course there must be a film from the place we should not forget, the place of a genocide, touching, personal…
Miguel Eek: AMÍLCAR
This is a film that through the vision of Amilcar Cabral communicates an appeal to humanity. Dealing with archive in such a fine manner.
Yegor Troyanovsky: CUBA & ALASKA
One of the many great Ukrainian documentaries that have been made in these years, where the country is at war. This one includes two wonderful protagonists, heroes they are, you laugh and you cry with them.
And check the website for the many other films selected, let me just remind you that Marc Cousins has a retrospective, that the new film of Kossakovsky is programmed…
