Mark Cousins at DocsBarcelona 2026

The Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival – DocsBarcelona 2026 will award scottish-irish filmmaker Mark Cousins the Docs of Honor Award and dedicate a retrospective to his work during the next edition, which will take place from May 7 to 17. During his visit to Barcelona, Cousins will also present the spanish premiere of the first episode of his new series, The Story of Documentary Film, after its world and European premieres at the Sundance and Berlin festivals respectively. Cousins will also offer a masterclass and will headline the opening conference of the DocsBarcelona Pro professional market. This tribute is possible thanks to the valued collaboration with the Filmoteca de Catalunya. 

With the new series The Story of Documentary Film, Cousins expands the universe of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a monumental 15-hour project with which he has redefined the dissemination of film history, reaffirming his status as one of the great audiovisual storytellers of world cinema. In addition to being among the most prominent contemporary film theorists for his academic and essayistic approaches to the seventh art, Cousins also possesses a remarkable artistic, personal, and auteur-driven side, focused on emotions and perspective, materialized in films such as I am Belfast (2015) and Stockholm, My Love (2016). 

DocsBarcelona wanted to recognize Cousins for his unquestionable contribution to cinema, culture and audiovisual education, as well as for a career that champions art and cinema as a tool for cultural transformation and critical thinking, open to the world and its complexities, and for his continued work in the dissemination, preservation and renewal of cinematic language, exploring and expanding its limits.

Photo: Mark Cousins.

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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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