Watch Docs: Main Competition Award

Festival Jury

2 - 11 DEC 2022
Warsaw, Poland

The Watch Docs Main Competition features 12 documentaries, which differ wildly in origin, subject matter and film language. However, they all share two features, they revolve around human rights, and all premiered at the world's leading film festivals. The competition includes new films by renowned documentary masters incl. Patricio Guzman, Mark Cousins, Matthew Heinemann, Maria Ramos.

The Main Competition Award Jury comprised of artists, filmmakers, programmers, curators and activists from across Europe, including Anna Zamecka, Joseph Cutts, Oleksiy Radynski & Max Tuula.

Watch Docs is one of the largest human rights film events in the world presenting documentaries, in which commitment to individual rights is combined with film art. Each year, the festival features over fifty world-class films. The festival in Warsaw, a travelling festival in over thirty Polish cities, and an online festival gather over 100,000 viewers combined. Watch Docs is the oldest documentary film festival in Warsaw with the first edition of the festival taking place in 2001.

Complete Programme Listing here