Dear Asian filmmakers, the WATCH DOCS Human Rights in Film International Film Festival (Poland) is accepting documentaries until August 1, 2025.

About the festival:
WATCH DOCS is one of the largest human rights film festivals in the world presenting documentaries in which commitment to social issues and individual rights is combined with film art.

Each year the festival shows over fifty world-class documentary films. At the international festival in Warsaw, travelling festival organized in more than thirty Polish localities and at the online festival, the total of over eighty thousand viewers take part in screenings each year.

Eligibility:
– The festival accepts documentaries and films from the fringes of this genre may be submitted to the festival.
– Only films pertaining to broadly-perceived human rights and social issues may be submitted to the festival.
– There are no run time limitations as for submitted films, however, only films with run times of 50 minutes and longer will be taken into consideration for the main competition for the WATCH DOCS Award.
– Films must have been produced after January 1, 2024.
– Films previously screened as part of the festival shall not be again submitted to the festival.
– Screeners must contain English subtitles if the original language is other than English or Polish.
– Submissions must be made via FilmFreeway.
– Submission Fee: FREE
– Deadline: August 1, 2025
– Notification Date: November 14, 2025

We recommend filmmakers to read the full Rules and Regulations here: https://filmfreeway.com/WATCHDOCS (This is also the submission link)

We remind readers that the 25th WATCH DOCS Human Rights in Film International Film Festival will take place from December 5 – 14, 2025 in Warszawa, Poland.

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