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🎥 Western Canada's largest documentary film festival taking place annually at venues across downtown Vancouver.

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🎥 We are now accepting submissions for our 2027 festival, taking place April 29 - May 9!

🗓️ November 1, 2026 : Early Bird Deadline
🗓️ November 30, 2026: Regular Deadline
🗓️ December 23, 2026: Late Deadline

Learn more about submission fees and guidelines through the link in our bio, or at filmfreeway.com/DOXAFESTIVAL

Fee waivers are available for Indigenous filmmakers. Please email submissions [at] doxafestival.ca for more information.

We look forward to seeing your films!

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#filmfestival #festivalsubmissions #documentaryfilm #canadianfilmfestival #experimentalfilm #essayfilm #vancouverevents by @doxafestival

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💬 What people are saying about DOXA 2026

☑️ Want to share your thoughts on the festival? Take our audience survey at doxafestival.ca/survey and be entered to win prizes from JJ Bean and Modo!

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🖼️ Image credits:
1. Alea Jacarandas (dir. Hassen Ferhani)
2. Beyond Now, Nyein (dir. Lim Daecheong)
3. Green Valley (dir. Morgan Tams)
4. Bouchra (dirs. Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani) by @doxafestival

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📣Welcome to the 25th DOXA Documentary Film Festival!
Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival will present over 70 films and industry events from April 30 - May 10.

🎟️Tickets and passes on sale now, and our full program is available on our website. See link in bio for details. by @doxafestival

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📅 October 22, 2026 • 7 PM
📍 SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

Long before the zombie became a staple of horror, it was rooted in the history of slavery, spiritual belief, and resistance.

Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the buried origins of the zombie.

Following the screening, join us for a #ReelTalk discussion with:

🎬 Maya Annik Bedward - Director, Black Zombie
🎬 Doaa Magdy - Founder & Director, Horror in Seconds Film Festival

🎟️ Tickets available now — https://reelcauses.org/black-zombie/ by @doxafestival

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🎥 DOXA is pleased to co-present NORMAL TO ME at @southafricanfilmfest

NORMAL TO ME intimately explores the lives of individuals with special needs, all employed at a protective workshop in the seaside town of Fish Hoek, South Africa. The participants' resilience and triumphs as they challenge societal expectations and redefine the notion of 'normal' are captured in the documentary. Normal To Me is screening online at the South African Film Festival, Nov. 4 to 20, 2026, with a vibrant program of compelling films and engaging discussions.

For the full Festival program and tickets visit southafricanfilmfest.com or saff2026.eventive.org.

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#documentaryfilm #filmfestival #onlinefestival #southafricancinema by @doxafestival

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NEXT WEEK!

Oceanic Asias: Richard Fung

Film Screening (BC Premiere):
The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
Post-screening discussion with Richard Fung, Phanuel Antwi, and Dharani Persaud.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema

Artists in Conversation:
Richard Fung and Shani Mootoo
Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 5:30 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre

Both at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W Hastings St., Vancouver.

Oceanic Asias: Richard Fung is presented as part of the Global Asias 30th Anniversary Speaker Series & the Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series in Social Justice

Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SFU David Lam Centre, SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SFU Global Asia Program, and SFU Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.

Media Partner: Rungh. Community Partner: Indian Summer Festival.

FULL INFO: www.sfu.ca/sca/events

@sfudance @sfu.theatre @sfumusic @611studio @sfufilmstudentunion @theatreproduction @sfu_apcs @scastudentunioncommons @fcatatsfu @sfuvan @simonfraseru @precursorlab @audaingallery_sca @sfulive @sfutheatre.media @sca_student_projects @sfu_globalasia @sfu_gsws @indiansummerfestival @rungh.means.colour by @doxafestival

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🇨🇦 We’re honored to announce that Who Moves America will have its International Premiere this Thursday and Friday at the 2026 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Insights program, celebrating documentaries that challenge how we see the world and the collective power to change it.

📍 Vancouver International Film Festival
🗓️ October 8 • 6:00 PM
🗓️ October 9 • 1:30 PM

The festival writes that director @yaelbridge “brings a clear-eyed attention to organizing as an everyday practice, compiling footage from meetings, rallies, votes, and the ordinary moments where people decide what they owe one another… Who Moves America turns labour struggle into a human drama of risk, solidarity, and building power.”

Thank you to @viffest, media partner @thetyee, and community partners @docubc, @doxafestival, and @reel_causes for helping bring this story to Vancouver.

Tickets at the link in bio.

#WhoMovesAmerica #VIFF #VIFF2026 #DocumentaryFilm #LaborMovement by @doxafestival

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Andrea Warner has been a long-time friend and supporter of DOXA. Through her work in music journalism and her generous support of organizations such as DOXA, Warner has done so much to uplift and celebrate Canadian arts and culture. DOXA is privileged to have worked with Warner, who was a DOXA donor and one of the founders of our past Vancouver Podcast Festival. We fondly remember her hosting trivia fundraisers for DOXA, as well as our virtual 20th Anniversary Event during COVID lockdowns. We are saddened by the news of Warner's passing, and we extend our deepest sympathies to her loved ones. by @doxafestival

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🎬 First Comes Love: Nakabingwit, a Rom-Com Documentary directed by @joellacabalu , is having its World Premiere at @viffest !

It starts like every great love story: eyes lock, sparks fly and the music swells. The future seems written in the stars. But First Comes Love: Nakabingwit lingers after the meet-cute, when conversations about race, class and difference enter the picture. For three Filipina–white couples, modern love means real romance, real love — and real-world problems. In the tender, inventive ways they learn to listen, repair and speak more honestly to one another, they find a truth that is deeply contemporary and enduringly romantic: that love can grow stronger when it meets reality.

🗓️ Saturday, October 3 • 5:45 p.m.
📍 SFU Woodwards

🗓️ Wednesday, October 7 • 1:30 p.m.
📍 International Village 10

🗓️ Saturday, October 10 • 3:45 p.m.
📍 Alliance française

Get tickets at viff.org by @doxafestival

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🎥 DOXA is pleased to be a community partner for the BC Premiere of LOVE CHAOS KIN at @isaffcanada . See bottom of this post for a discount code!

🎬 Love Chaos Kin (dir. Chithra Jeyaram)
An unexpected pregnancy compels an Indian immigrant mother to help her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.

Screening with short film:
🎬 i see myself in you (dir. Amreen Kullar)

🔗 See full festival schedule and buy tickets at isaff.ca

🚨 Use the following code at checkout for 15% off tickets: COMMUNITY15% by @doxafestival

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🎥 DOXA is pleased to partner with @viffest for the Insight series, running October 1-11.

🚨 TICKET GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a pair of tickets to this series. See end of post for instructions.

🔗 Learn more: viff.org/series/insights

There’s power in coming together, and documentaries know how to capture it. Insights gathers international nonfiction where filmmakers mold and morph identity into metaphors for worlds in transition.

Young people in China, France, and Georgia come of age. From Kenya to Colombia to North America, communities resist extraction and organize for change. Across SWANA, personal archives and revolutionary images bring past struggles into the present. Together, these stories reveal love not as retreat, but as the force that creates collective change.

🎬 Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Dir. William Greaves, David Greaves

🎬 Whispers in May - Dir. Dongnan Chen

🎬 A Distant Call - Dir. Andrea Suwito

🎬 Heat - Dir. Jacqueline Zünd

🎬 Birds of War - Dir. Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak

🎬 Gabin - Dir. Maxence Voiseux

🎬 Concrete Land - Dir. Asmahan Bkerat

🎬 A Fire There - Dir. Marlene Edoyan

🎬 A Place of Absence - Dir. Marialuisa Ernst

🎬 Nitassinan - Dir. Joséphine Bacon, Kim O'Bomsawin

🎬 Who Moves America - Dir. Yael Bridge

🎬 The Wind's Thirst - Dir. Alejandro Valbuena

🎬 Revolutionaries Never Die - Dir. Mohanad Yaqubi

🎬 Nuisance Bear - Dir. Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman

🎬 Closure - Dir. Michał Marczak

🎬 Kikuyu Land - Dir. Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu

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🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY
Enter for one of five chances to win a pair of tickets to any film in this series.

To Enter:
1. Make sure you are following both @doxafestival and @viffest
2. Comment which film in the Insight series you're the most excited for!

Enter by September 27. Winners will be contacted by DOXA via DMs before October 1.

You may enter both of DOXA's ticket giveaways for both the Spectrum and the Insight series. by @doxafestival

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🎥 DOXA is pleased to partner with @viffest for the Spectrum series, running October 1-11.

🚨 TICKET GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a pair of tickets to this series. See end of post for instructions.

🔗 Learn more: viff.org/series/spectrum

Nonfiction takes a wild turn in Spectrum, where strange forms open portals to new ways of seeing and believing. Desktop cinema, absurdism, satire, and daring anti-tributes turn the familiar inside out.

Mushrooms become guides. Indigenous communities fight to bring their ancestors home. Queer Mexican cowboys carve out space, Iranian siblings take an unlikely road trip, and young Nigerian filmmakers turn cinephilia into unruly invention. Rooted in the earth yet reaching across borders, these films conjure global solidarity from the unexpected.

🎬 Jaripeo - dir. Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig

🎬 Into the Jaws of the Ogre - dir. Mahsa Karampour

🎬 An Incomplete Calendar dir. Sanaz Sohrabi

🎬 Last Movies - dir. Stanley Schtinter

🎬 Aanikoobijigan [Ancestor/Great-Grandparent/Great-Grandchild] - dir. Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil

🎬 Crocodile - dir. The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly

🎬 Let Them Be Seen - dir. Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi

🎬 Daughters of the Forest - dir. Otilia Portillo Padua

🎬 Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) - dir. Anna Fitch, Banker White

🎬 Afterlives - dir. Kevin B. Lee

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🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY
Enter for one of five chances to win a pair of tickets to any film in this series.

To Enter:
1. Make sure you are following both @doxafestival and @viffest
2. Comment which film in the Spectrum series you're the most excited for!

Enter by September 27. Winners will be contacted by DOXA via DMs before October 1.

You may enter both of DOXA's ticket giveaways for both the Spectrum and the Insight series. by @doxafestival

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