DOCA 2025

There was an impressive annual report in my email of today: Looking Back at 2025, the Year With DOCA Georgia. The Documentary Association Georgia says in the foreword to the report, which btw is set up in a very inviting manner, easy to overview, factual but also all the time stressing what is important, as it is phrased here:

2025 was a year of immense challenges for Georgia, affecting a wide spectrum of professions and activities, arts and culture among them. Against the backdrop of the absence of public funding for independent filmmaking and increased attacks on freedom of expression, DOCA Georgia continues to support the documentary film scene. Year 2025 was particularly marked by expanded international collaboration and a growing audience for documentary films in the country.

The report outlines the film screenings that have been organized, the international initiatives, the talks and workshops, awards to films and film projects, in other words a lot of energy put into activities, and it looks like all the documentarians are members, so much talent I can say having worked with the SakDoc and CinéDoc for years.

You can see for yourself here: https://doca.ge/so/8cPjfqSJb?languageTag=en&cid=9154f8df-d606-4ab6-9a70-e13350904332

The wonderful photo is from a workshop: Amateur Documentary Filmmaking Workshop in French (!) Mentor: Elene Mikaberidze

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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