The Filmbüro Augsburg is the organizer of The Augsburg Short Film Festival and also of The Days of Independent Film. It is a festival of documentary and feature films in any format and length. Every year the festival announces the focus - as to the subject or country of origin - of the current festival program. The festival is also a meeting point for film students and a chance to present their films in front of an expert audience at the International Conference of Film Students Cinema of Tomorrow.

The festival hosts the Cutting Edge Short Film Competition aimed at debut and emerging film-makers with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners chosen by audience vote and announced at the end of the festival. There are usually 12 or 15 entrants in this competition. The festival welcomes student submissions. The feature film competition presents more than 20 genre films each year. An Audience Award for Best Feature is announced in the days following the festival.

DepicT! is Watershed’s international short film competition as part of Encounters International Film Festival that challenges filmmakers to create super-shorts of under 90 seconds. DepicT! has been running since 1998 and prides itself on the quality of its little gems. Every year we receive hundreds of films of every genre from dozens of countries all around the world all competing for our great range of prizes and industry exposure. The teams of judges who deliberate over the entries have included some superstar names – such as Peter Jackson, Pete Postlethwaite and Damien O’Donnell.

The festival wants to be seen as counterpoint to the mainly urban cinema medium, and wants to present films that cannot find bigger audiences in the everyday theatre business because of their subject matter (rural life) and style. Every year 20 to 25 films are offered in the categories of feature, documentary and short film. The festival is concerned with heimat - home - as its main issue: the loss of home, travelling, changing of the home ground, finding a new home, metaphorical and metaphysical homes. Submissions can be made by sending the film synopsis to the festival email address / fax number. The festival organizers can request a VHS copy of the film.

Detroit Docs was formed in 2002 by a group of devoted documentary filmmakers and film lovers. The first festival was truly a small grassroots effort. It took place at one venue, showcased just over 30 films and drew a crowd of 500. Now it is an important fixture in the cultural landscape of Detroit, and strives to provide the best the world has to offer in the documentary film form.

Biennal, even years. The Festival has been organized on a regular basis by Rainbow Film Society, which has been dedicated to the promotion of a healthy cine culture in Bangladesh and in celebrating the global mainstream in film and its social relevance since 1977. In the short span of twelve years, DIFF has attained international recognition with seven festivals held in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. The festival accepts fiction films from Asia and Australia, organizes various retrospectives and tributes, discussions and seminars.

The festival offers a representative selection of Austria’s recent film production covering the wide scope of film and video works: feature film, documentary, short, animation, avant-garde and productions for television.

Dialektus aims to screen films, which are sensitive to other cultures, films that present the world as filmmakers see it. Dialektus is a European documentary festival since 2002, which aims to make documentary and anthropological film accessible to a wider audience, not just on TV.

DIBA is an audiovisual festival that opens cinema to digital generation and wants to promote new trends in digital filmmaking; a world, where new technologies promote creativity in the search for new directions. DIBA offers diverse audiovisual programming - feature films, DJ's and VJ's sessions, documentaries, music videos, conferences, art videos, live performances, workshops and other events. DIBA wants to be in touch with the best international digital filmmaking - both young talent as well as established film directors. The festival accepts feature films, short films (fiction, documentary, animation) and music videos.

Die Fabrikanten are engaged in client and community based cultural work. At the end of 1990 Wolfgang Preisinger and Gerald Harringer founded the office Die Fabrikanten after having completed their studies at the University of arts in Linz. Without making any difference between applied and free artistic work, Die Fabrikanten work as a communication agency and at the same time carry out cultural projects – demanding to create a social surplus value. The intellectual approaches of Die Fabrikanten come from art, science and economics. Extraordinary perspectives develop thanks to the combination of new links between these fields and they manifest themselves in corporate designs, rooms, situations and communication concepts.

The first edition of the Dignity and Work International Festival took place in Gdansk in 2003. The festival presents films that deal with the relationship of work and artistic expression, explore the various contexts of work and workplace in different parts of the world, and deal with current issues such as the global economy, the EU, multinationals, new technologies, computer industry, corruption and bureaucracy. Discussions on the above topics are also part of the festival.

Created by the French Directors Guild in the wake of the events of May ’68, the Directors’ Fortnight seeks to aid filmmakers and contribute to their discovery by the critics and audiences alike. Since its inception, the Directors' Fortnight has showcased the first films of Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, Chantal Akerman, Spike Lee, and Sofia Coppola, among others. Among the various sections at the Cannes IFF, the Directors’ Fortnight is distinguished by its independent-mindedness and its non-competitive nature. Striving to be receptive to all forms of cinematic expression, the Directors' Fortnight pays particular attention to the annual production of fiction features, short films and documentaries, independent fringe filmmaking, and even to contemporary popular genres. The films are chosen by Frédéric Boyer, the SRF-appointed artistic director, seconded by a team of five professionals and film critics.

Doc Eat is more than a documentary festival entirely dedicated to food. For if the notion of food includes what is drinkable, Doc Eat does indeed extend its interest to Bacchus, the god of wine. Doc Eat is founded on the established experience of Doc Fest, an important international venue in the realm of film and documentaries. Doc Fest is a cultural association that has dealt with documentary festivals and related events for many years. Among them: Festival di Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Milano Doc Festival, Sole e Luna Doc Fest in Palermo, “Modos de intender l’arquitectura” at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, and many others. The ultimate goal of Doc Eat is to build a cultural and visual archive from all over the world. A great film festival that will call for an internationally voracious and gluttonous “meal” made of images, colors, and sounds.

Doc Fest is a cultural event that presents the most important and recent international film productions revolving around the art, architecture, cinema, theatre, music and dance.

DOC NYC is a new festival celebrating documentary storytelling in film, photography, prose and other media. Curated by the team behind "Stranger Than Fiction," the programming will range from world premieres to retrospectives to panels, assembling the world's leading creators for dialogue, inspiration and incubation of ideas.

The festival of documentary films DOCsk takes place in Košice, Slovak Republic. The 4 day long showcase offers a possibility to watch a number of creative documentaries. The festival will also introduce new Slovak and Czech documenraries and student films.

Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival in Tel Aviv is a showcase of fine documentary films from Israel and around the world. It is the biggest film festival in Tel Aviv and the only one which is dedicated exclusively to documentaries. The festival runs a few competitions, including an Israeli competition, an international competition, a student film competition and a youth competition. The festival is held yearly in the spring in Tel Aviv. It hosts a large number of local and international professionals and attracts a large and vibrant local audience.

The International Film Festival DocBoat / Warsaw Nonfiction E-fest is the first Polish online film festival dedicated to documentary film. DocBoat accepts creative documentaries of any length; there is no fee required for entry. DocBoat is an international showcase of documentary films on environmental issues, social & political engagement, transformation and other important challenges of the 21st century, screened live by the Vistula river bank in a boat and also on the Polish internet. DocBoat is a free to view, interactive, TV-quality VOD platform supported by Warsaw authorities. DocBoat uses streaming TV technology and this streaming of content is accessible only for computers logged on the internet in the Polish territory. The festival includes a film competition, several out-of-competition sections, tributes and retrospectives, panel debates, masterclasses and many other events.

DocLisboa is a competitive festival open to a diversity of genres and trends, mainly focused on new ways of thinking, looking at the world and communicating. All the screenings are followed by a debate with the audience, directors, producers, and film critics. The Festival includes three competitive sections: 1. International Competition: short films (up to 40min) and feature films (over 41 min); 2. National Competition: short films (up to 40min) and feature films (over 41 min); 3. Investigations: Films that deal with contemporary issues, proposing cinema as a way to investigate a given reality.

Established in 2001, DocPoint is the largest documentary film festival in the Nordic region. In Finland, it is the only one dedicated solely to documentary films. Every year, the festival offers both a national and an international selection of the latest movies, celebrated classics, and a special selection of documentary films for children. In addition, a wide range of seminars, lectures and workshops is organised. There is no official selection procedure for non-national films. The international program of the festival is based on thematic selections that are not published prior to the presentation of the program. Filmmakers can, nevertheless, send an email with the synopsis of their film or send a screener (DVD or VHS Pal) to DocPoint's address.

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival will be from 2010 held also in Tallinn. The programme of DocPoint Tallinn focuses on Finnish documentary films but also shows international highlights.

DocsBarcelona (Pitching Forum) extended its activities with regard to the general public and in 2007 organized its first showcase of documentary films. The DocsBarcelona Festival was conceived to offer viewers a selection of carefully chosen series of films made by internationally renowned documentary filmmakers. The festival has the following categories: 1/ Panorama - dedicated to recent documentary productions, 2/ Le Dernier Repas - an experienced documentary professional selects his or her favourite documentary films, 3/ History - documentaries with innovative approaches to historical narration, 4/ 12 - 16 - documentaries targeting teenagers between the ages of 12 and 16.

DocuDays was founded in 1999 with the aim of raising public awareness for the non-fiction genre as an entertaining and informative tool. The Beirut International Documentary Festival is still the premiere festival in the Arab world totally dedicated to documentary films. The programme is divided into an international and a national (pan-Arab) competition (feature, mid-length, short documentary film).