Melgaço on the Map
MDOC 2025 brings stories of identity, memory, and upheaval to Melgaço
Starting today, the MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival returns with its most expansive and politically charged edition yet. Running from 28 July to 3 August, the 11th edition brings together 33 daring films from 23 countries, selected from over 800 submissions. With 28 Portuguese premieres and a new addition—the FIPRESCI Prize awarded by international critics—this year’s competition promises a powerful exploration of identity, memory, and borders. From ancestral rituals to stories of exile and resistance, MDOC 2025 reaffirms its commitment to cinema that confronts the present by listening to the past.
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Films
Ancestral Visions of the Future
Director: Lemohang Mosese
Blending docufiction and philosophy, Lemohang Mosese redefines home, exile, and human interconnectedness through Ubuntu and radical decolonial storytelling.
Cutting Through Rocks
Director: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
In a conservative Iranian village, one divorced woman’s political rise sparks fierce resistance, gendered repression, and bold feminist defiance.
Holding Liat
Director: Brandon Kramer
The horror of the conflict in Gaza for all innocents is underlined.
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
My Memory is Full of Ghosts
Director: Anas Zawahri
Life in post-siege Homs is marked by rubble, silence, and voices determined to remember, mourn, and somehow endure.
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