Moldox Turns 10
A 10th-anniversary MOLDOX edition mapping conflict, fragility, and collective repair.
The 10th MOLDOX Festival runs in Chișinău from 26–30 November 2025 under the theme «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» framing documentary film as both witness to crisis and a tool for imagining alternatives. The programme features 27 feature-length and six short documentaries, mostly premieres, tracing stories from Siberia to Khartoum, India’s red-light districts to Moldova’s depopulated villages, and confronting war, migration, trauma, utopian experiments, and collective healing. Standout titles include The Voice of Hind Rajab and the IDFA-winning Trains. A 2025 innovation is Green Vine, a national competition spotlighting Moldovan filmmakers, with an international jury awarding distribution and development support. Marking the 10th anniversary, MOLDOX adds a Queer Choir concert, public panels, and side events such as concerts, a photo and poster exhibition at Cărturești la Muzeu, parties, and a MOLDOX Bookshelf open through 30 November. MOLDOX Lab returns with workshops and masterclasses for emerging professionals, focused on documentary as social change.
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News
MOLDOX unveils 2025 programme under «Chaos. Reinventing Reality» theme
Interview
«We are ten years old, but we are still young»
At ten years old, MOLDOX meets Moldova’s EU horizon and the war’s shadow with «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» testing whether documentary can fortify a fragile public sphere.
Films
Bright Future
Director: Andra MacMasters
The sensory and ideological layers of a forgotten Cold War festival, exploring fleeting solidarity, ideological discord, and the fragility of socialist dreams.
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director: Amber Fares
Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
Cuba & Alaska
Director: Yegor Troyanovsky
Laughing in the face of death, the two heroines of journalist-turned-filmmaker Yegor Troyanovsky’s debut documentary Cuba & Alaska pitch viewers into the agony and ecstasy of Ukraine’s frontlines.
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.
Flowers of Ukraine
Director: Adelina Borets
On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
Holding Liat
Director: Brandon Kramer
The horror of the conflict in Gaza for all innocents is underlined.
Khartoum
Director: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M. Ahmed, Phil Cox
A mirror to pain, resistance, and hope.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film follows Hind Rajab’s calls, Red Crescent coordination, and an ambulance denied until it’s shot.
Trains
Director: Maciej Drygas
Polish director Maciej Drygas’s entrancing Trains is a mesmerising journey through much of the 20th century by rail, accompanied by a subtly intense soundtrack.