Applications are open for the new edition of Nord/Est/Doc/Camp!

Applications are open for the 4th edition of Nord/Est/Doc/Camp, the documentary lab for projects produced in North-Eastern Italy.

The three partner festivals — Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, Euganea Film Festival and Pordenone Docs Fest — with the support of IDM Film Commission Südtirol, Trentino Film Commission, Veneto Film Commission, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission, and in collaboration with Fondo Audiovisivo FVG, launch the 4th edition of Nord/Est/Doc/Camp, a consultancy and tutoring lab aimed at four medium-length and feature-length documentaries produced or co-produced in North-Eastern Italy. After three editions, the lab has established itself as a unique opportunity and key meeting point for producers and authors from the Triveneto area.

Applications are now open, with a deadline for project submission on 5 February 2026. The full call and application form are available at nordestdoccamp.com/bando-nord-est-doc-camp-2025.

Nord/Est/Doc/Camp offers a step-by-step programme of feedback, networking and training across the partner festivals, providing directors and producers — in an informal setting — access to the expertise of selected professionals through a series of meetings and workshops designed to bring out the full potential of works in progress: from editing to post-production, from festivals to distribution, with the aim of strengthening the films’ profiles and dramaturgy and expanding their circulation and distribution prospects.

The project is open to documentary and hybrid (non-fiction) films in the editing phase, produced or co-produced by companies based in Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, with a planned final running time of over 45 minutes.

The first three editions involved 12 projects, including in 2023 Lisca bianca – Nata libera by Giuseppe Galante and Giorgia Sciabbica (produced by Ginko Film) and The Other Side of the Pipe by Marko Kumer (produced by Incipit Film), both premiered at last year’s Visioni dal Mondo festival in Milan, and Vista mare by Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler (produced by Albolina Film), presented at Locarno’s Critics’ Week and at numerous international festivals, winner of the Best Italian Documentary Award at Festival dei Popoli and distributed by Trent Film. Among the 2024 projects, My Boyfriend El Fascista by Matthias Lintner won the First Steps Award 2025 for Best Documentary in Berlin.

For information about Nord/Est/Doc/Camp and applications for the 2026 edition: nordestdoccamp@gmail.com