Application deadline: 31 July, 2025
Application deadline: 31 July, 2025

This intensive 5-day-long program is designed for first or second feature-length documentary film directors, and the editors and producers of their projects. Verzió DocLab is part of the industry programs of the Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and thus selection of the projects is also based on their social relevance and human rights aspect.
Verzió DocLab is powered by the DOC AROUND EUROPE festival network, which brings together six relevant documentary film festivals throughout the continent. Together with partner festivals – FIPADOC, DOK.fest München, DocsBarcelona, MakeDox and Biografilm – Verzió promotes the circulation of creative European documentary films and supports young film professionals, especially directors of first and second feature documentaries from the regions represented by each festival.
In 2025 the network welcomed two guest festivals, Porto/Post/Doc and DocPoint Helsinki, enriching the collaboration with the promotion of talents from Portugal and Finland.
Emerging documentary filmmakers from the countries represented by these festivals are eligible to apply to the Verzió DocLab, the Verzió Young Critics workshops, and to present their films in the festival’s Doc Future Competition. We are looking for projects with directors from the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey.
In solidarity with filmmakers from Ukraine and Georgia, Verzió DocLab also welcomes applications from these countries.
For more information read our call.
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