2025 Doc Day

Tuesday 20 May 2025 from 10:00 to 22:00

Morning Session | 10:00-12:00

Plage du CNC (Mademoiselle Gray Plage Barrière)

A 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ŒIL D’OR AWARD

Presentation of the Œil d’or Award by Julie Gayet, President of the 2025 Jury, followed by a special contribution by filmmaker and activist Waad al-Kateab, winner of the 2019 Œil d’or
Award for her BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated debut documentary film, For Sama.

CONVERSING BEYOND THE UNSPEAKABLE
DOCUMENTARY FILM AS A TOOL FOR HUMANITY AND ACTIVE RESISTANCE

Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi in conversation with Murtada Elfadl, culture writer, critic, and film curator, about her film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (ACID Cannes 2025).

REAL TALK
THE INTRICACIES OF DOC CURATION IN FILM FESTIVALS THE PROGRAMMERS’ PERSPECTIVE

With the participation of Paul Grandsard (Festival de Cannes), Michael Stütz (Berlinale), Ania Trzebiatowska (Sundance) & Pamela Biénzobas (Locarno). Moderated by film curator, critic and journalist Eric Hynes.

Afternoon session | 15:00-17:00

Main Stage (Marché du Film, Riviera)

WHEN CINEMA OF THE REAL CRASHES THE FICTION PARTY

‘Rawiyat Podcast’, hosted by Rawiyat, a collective of womxn filmmakers from the MENA region and its diaspora, highlights the voices shaping the region’s cinema. In this special episode, Zoulikha Tahar speaks with Erige Sehiri (Promised Sky, Opening Film, Official Selection – Un Certain Regard 2025) about their practice of cinema of the real and how it nourishes their fiction.

INVADED EXISTENCES, MILITARIZED LIVES
A COLLECTIVE, CINEMATIC LANGUAGE EXPERIMENTATION

Directors Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi and producer Eugene Rachkovsky in conversation with film curator Dorota Lech, about their film Militantropos (Directors’ Fortnight 2025), an existential filmic exploration of the profound, intimate, day-to-day militarization of everything, everyone and everywhere in war-torn Ukraine – and how humanity resists?

CONFESSIONS OF A FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER
THINGS I SHOULD NEVER ADMIT IN PUBLIC

A live performance by filmmaker Viv Li, based on the making of her upcoming debut feature documentary The Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest

Docs-in-progress Awards Ceremony | 17:15-18:00

Main Stage (Marché du Film, Riviera)

Doc Day Mixer | 18:00-20:00

Bistrot du Lérins (Marché du Film, Lérins) – By invitation only

Closing screening | 20:00-22:00

Cinéma Les Arcades

‘La Vie après Siham’ (Life After Siham), by Namir Abdel Messeeh

76’ l France, Egypt l 2025
Produced by Oweda Films, Les Films d’Ici, Ambient Light and Red Star Films
In collaboration with ACID Cannes