Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.
Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[1]
In many cities around the world, documentary film festivals are held annually to showcase documentaries made that year. Many of them are theme or genre specific.
Africa
|AIFF |1999 |Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |www.addisfilmfestival.org |- |-
Asia
Europe
Middle East
North and South America
| Name |
Est. |
City |
Country |
Website |
| AFI Docs |
2003 |
Washington, D.C. |
 United States |
www.afi.com/afidocs/ |
| Atlanta DocuFest |
|
Atlanta, Georgia |
United States |
www.docufest.com |
| Belleville Downtown DocFest |
|
Belleville, Ontario |
 Canada |
downtowndocfest.ca |
| Big Sky Documentary Film Festival |
|
Missoula, Montana |
United States |
www.bigskyfilmfest.org |
| Camden International Film Festival |
2005 |
Camden, Maine |
United States |
www.camdenfilmfest.org.org |
| Chagrin Documentary Film Festival |
|
Chagrin Falls, Ohio |
United States |
chagrinfilmfest.org |
| Chicago International Documentary Festival |
2003 |
Chicago, Illinois |
United States |
chicagodocfestival.org |
| Cine Pobre Film Festival |
|
La Paz, Baja California Sur |
 Mexico |
www.cinepobre.com |
| Culture Unplugged Documentary Film Festival |
2007 |
San Francisco, California |
United States |
www.cultureunplugged.com |
| DocFest - San Francisco Documentary Festival |
2001 |
San Francisco, California |
United States |
sfindie.com/festivals/sf-docfest/ |
| Doc LA - Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival |
|
Los Angeles, California |
United States |
www.docla.org |
| DocMiami |
|
Miami, Florida |
United States |
docmiami.org |
| DOC NYC Film Festival |
2010 |
New York City |
United States |
www.docnyc.net |
| DOCUTAH - Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival |
2009 |
St. George, Utah |
United States |
www.docutah.com |
| DocuWest International Film Festival |
2008 |
Denver, Colorado |
United States |
docuwestfest.com |
| DOXA Documentary Film Festival |
1998 |
Vancouver |
Canada |
www.doxafestival.ca |
| Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC |
|
Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta, Ibarra, Portoviejo |
 Ecuador |
www.festivaledoc.org |
| EstDocs |
2005 |
Toronto, Ontario |
Canada |
http://www.estdocs.com |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival |
1998 |
Durham, North Carolina |
United States |
www.fullframefest.org |
| History Makers |
2001 |
New York |
United States |
www.historymakers2011.com |
| Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards |
|
Hollywood, California |
United States |
hiida.com |
| Hot Docs |
1993 |
Toronto |
Canada |
www.hotdocs.ca |
| Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival |
1992 |
Hot Springs, Arkansas |
United States |
hsdfi.org |
| Imagine International Film Festival |
|
Clearwater, Florida |
United States |
imagineinternationalfilmfestival.com |
| Impugning Impunity Human Rights Documentary Film Festival |
2011 |
New York, New York |
United States |
www.alba-valb.org/programs/human-rights-film-festival/ |
| International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF) |
2006 |
Mexico City |
Mexico |
www.docsdf.org/en/ |
| It's All True International Documentary Film Festival |
1996 |
São Paulo, SP, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
 Brazil |
www.itsalltrue.com.br |
| Jacksonville Documentary Film Festival |
|
Jacksonville, Florida |
United States |
www.jaxdocfest.org |
| New Media Film Festival |
2009 |
Los Angeles, California |
United States |
http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/ |
| Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal |
1998 |
Montreal |
Canada |
www.ridm.qc.ca |
| Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival |
2008 |
Sebastopol, California |
United States |
sebastopolfilmfestival.org |
| True/False Film Festival |
2004 |
Columbia, Missouri |
United States |
www.truefalse.org |
| United Nations Association Film Festival |
1998 |
Stanford, California |
United States |
www.unaff.org |
Oceania
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Mozambique
South Africa
Ghana
Qatar
Iran
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
