An international project, five European festivals, and as many as fourteen outstanding, incredibly engaging documentaries for young audiences. 2025 edition of Docs4Teens get started! 

Universal themes and diverse forms of documentary cinema can serve as tools for fostering integration among young audiences across Europe. The rich programme of Docs4Teens provides an excellent starting point for initiating dialogue with youth on issues that affect their peers around the world. The documentaries selected for the project address topics such as migration, ecology, the search for identity, and the pursuit of unique passions.

The aim of the Docs4Teens initiative is to bring young people across Europe closer together through documentary cinema. The Krakow Film Festival (Poland), Porto/Post/Doc (Portugal),  Docudays UA (Ukraine),  FIPADOC (France) and  Festival Dei Popoli (Italy) actively support the promotion and distribution of documentary films to make them more accessible to young audiences.

As part of the fourth edition of Docs4Teens, each of the participating festivals will present fourteen specially curated documentaries for viewers aged 12–16.

Docs4Teens Selection 2025:

• Under the Wing of a Night, by Lesia Diak (Belgium, Ukraine, 19’)
• Zlata, by Mattias Bavré (Belgium, 51’)
• City of Poets, by Sara Rajaei (Netherlands, 21’)
• Last Song from Kabul, by Kevin Macdonald, Ruhi Hamid (UK, Qatar, Portugal, 34’)
• Puffling, by Jessica Bishopp (Iceland, 20’)
• A Trip to the Woods, by Sławomir Mielnik (Poland, 61’)
• Percebes, by Xá Ramires, Laura Gonçalves (Portugal, France, 12’)
• Nelson the Piglet, by Anneke De Lind van Wijngaarden (Netherlands, 15’)
• Fatmé, by Diala Al Hindaoui (France, 15’)
• Madeleine, by Raquel Sancinetti (Canada, 15’)
• Maydegol, by Sarvnaz Alambeigi (Iran, Germany, France, 73’)
• Jump Out, by  Nika Šaravanja (Italy, 52’)
• KIX, by Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész (Hungary, 90’)
• Carnaval, by Justine Martin (Canada, 13’)

The selected films will be screened in 2025 during the following festivals: FIPADOC (France, January), Krakow Film Festival (Poland, May–June), Docudays UA (Ukraine, June), Festival Dei Popoli (Italy, November), and the Porto/Post/Doc (Portugal, November).