Permanent access to outstanding documentaries selected by DOC ALLIANCE partners
Doc Alliance Films is an online platform for the distribution of documentary and experimental films which was launched by a new initiative for documentary films called DOC ALLIANCE. Doc Alliance is an association which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five European key documentary film festivals - CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon. The aim is to promote creative documentary films on a general market that is less permeable to their circulation and commercialization and systematically support the distribution of documentary films through their festival markets and online platform.
Doc Alliance Films follows up the tradition of the Doc-Air portal, an initiative powered by International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, which was launched in August 2006. During its existence, the portal gathered 250 documentary and experimental films and built a unique space for creative documentary films available to both wide audiences and professionals all around the world.
The films you can find on the Doc Alliance Films platform are selected by festival programme committees, which focus on films with both social and aesthetic value – searching for films which deal with strong issues and do not resign from aesthetic qualities and a unique style at the same time. Moreover, the platform is open to any kind of cinematic innovations, progressive and provocative docs stimulating an open dialogue between the authors and their audience.
Doc Alliance Films offers a selection of important contemporary documentary films from all over the world with an accent on European cinematography. However, not only the contemporary, but also archive documentary films and the greatest documentary works of the past are available on the portal, which thus aspires to become an archive as well. Films by established masters as Ulrich Seidl, Jørgen Leth, Peter Mettler or Helena Třeštíková, by new talents and also students’ films are very welcome at Doc Alliance Films.
Legally and for a minimum fee, you can watch or buy a film by mere playing or downloading it in one of the three offered formats.
Filmmakers and producers (distributors) as well as students are welcome to register their film and try to give it space on the Doc Alliance Films portal. Contact us if you are interested.
Doc Alliance Films at You Tube and other Networking-Platforms:
Contact at the DOK Leipzig office:
Lina Dinkla (Coordination) // lina(a)docalliancefilms.com
