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Key Dates: 15-20 May 2025

Access: Marché du Film badge holders

Main Venue: Riviera H4

Target Audience: Documentary Film Professionals, Sales Agents, Festival Programmers, Producers


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Cannes Docs offers a dedicated venue and tailored program of events for all creative documentary film professionals – filmmakers and industry experts alike.

As one of the Marché du Film’s key programs, Cannes Docs celebrates the vital role documentary cinema plays in contemporary storytelling while facilitating its integration into the global film industry. Through an exciting mix of panels, showcases, presentations, get-togethers and the signature Doc Day, Cannes Docs is where documentary films come to life, networks expand, and impactful collaborations take shape.

Whether you’re an experienced producer looking to connect efficiently with key industry figures or a budding filmmaker aiming to grow your network, strengthen your market navigating skills and industry know-how, Cannes Docs provides a vibrant space that fosters meaningful discussions, leading to new insights and transformative opportunities.

The key dates for Cannes Docs 2025 are Thursday 15 (Opening) to Tuesday 20 May (Doc Day).

A Unique Networking Platform for Creative Documentaries

Cannes Docs is a B2B networking platform, offering a multitude of opportunities for filmmakers and industry professionals to engage and collaborate — particularly those working with creative, cinematic, and author-driven feature documentaries.

Our program includes tailored events such as one-on-one speed meetings, group consultations, panel discussions, workshops, and social gatherings, all designed to help you grow your network, promote your projects, or enhance your company’s visibility.

Attendees can also discover our curated showcases of Docs-in-Progress, Spotlighted Projects and Delegations from across the globe, offering a sneak peek at future standout documentaries from today’s most creative doc talents.

A Welcoming & Inclusive Community

Cannes Docs is committed to fostering a welcoming environment and an inclusive space for documentary filmmakers of all backgrounds and origins. At its heart, Cannes Docs is all about (re)connecting with your peers and with the doc film community as a whole, with the goal of expanding and strengthening your network, and helping you find the right allies for the future advancement of your filmmaking career.

Being part of Cannes Docs is also a very efficient way to immerse oneself in the creative documentary ecosystem and better comprehend its inner workings, values, philosophy and ethics. It’s also a great way to gain visibility in the documentary scene so as to be identified as an active, dedicated, and passionate filmmaker in the doc industry.

Discover & Celebrate Doc Day

One of the standout events at Cannes Docs is Doc Day, a full-day celebration of documentary cinema featuring exclusive keynotes, panel discussions, and masterclasses with inspiring documentary filmmakers in selection at Cannes, alongside prominent industry executives.

Doc Day is the perfect opportunity to take a step back and reflect on how the documentary genre is continuously evolving as a marketplace, as an artistic form, and as a tool to raise awareness, drive global change and challenge perceptions.

It is also an unmissable moment for the entire doc community in Cannes, coming together joyfully to strengthen and enrich human connections and precious friendships, which are crucial in helping us all forge ahead tenaciously and never waver in our love for docs!

Explore the Cannes Docs Experience

For a deeper look into the Cannes Docs experience, browse through last year’s SCHEDULE or download the complete PROGRAM OVERVIEW. Each edition offers a diverse array of sessions and formats, allowing participants to create a personalized, enriching experience.

And to get a feel of the event’s atmosphere, explore our photo albums of previous editions: 2022, 2023 and 2024.

FAQ

Who is Cannes Docs for?

Cannes Docs is designed for filmmakers and industry professionals working with creative, cinematic, author-driven feature docs. We are particularly useful for doc-focused sales agents and festival programmers looking for exclusive documentaries soon to hit the festival circuit and market, as well as for all kinds of specialized organizations supporting and promoting the genre worldwide.

From a filmmaker’s point of view, Cannes Docs is especially relevant for teams with projects in advanced stages of production (editing / post-production), seeking to connect with festival programmers, sales agents, potential co-producers, and other industry players who could help finalize their project.

Please be aware that Cannes Docs is not a pitching, financing or co-production forum, so it is significantly less useful to come with projects in early stages of production, though of course there are always good connections to be made for all projects, at any stage.

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