dok.incubator

03/09/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
My Shining Darkness /HU, PL/ 🎹
director: Lia Lőrinczy , editor: Dániel Márton, producers: Julianna Ugrin, Pantyi Petra Berta, Éclipse Film

👉🏼 My Shining Darkness is an intimate documentary about blind Liszt Prize-winning pianist Tamás Érdi and the family that shaped his life. For decades, his mother Márta devoted herself to organizing his world, making his musical career possible. As she grows older, that role must gradually shift to Tamás's wife, Réka. A delayed coming-of-age story and a sensual cinematic journey through memory, sound and family relationships.

MADOKE - Magyar Dokumentumfilmesek Egyesülete

02/09/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Layers of Disobedience /CZ/ 🚨
director, editor: Barbora Johansson Pivonkova, producer: Kristýna Drozdová, Fresh Lobster

👉🏼 Layers of Disobedience is a documentary about the psychology of obedience and the rare act of breaking free from it through the stories of ordinary people who consciously violated the law to help themselves or loved ones despite facing imprisonment. In an era of expanding regulation and quietly eroding autonomy, the film poses urgent questions. Are we making autonomous decisions, or have we surrendered our agency to external systems?

01/09/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
The Curse /PL/ 🛒
director: Jakub Jakubik, editor: Szymon Kuczyński, producer: Piotr Uśmiech, Telemark

👉🏼 In Inowłódz, a small town in central Poland, a former synagogue has become a liquor store, and people keep drowning in a nearby pond. Waldek, an abstinent, believes the town is cursed. When another death occurs, he brings Dawid, a Polish Jew, to uncover the synagogue’s dark past. Blending observation, local legend and noir atmosphere, The Curse is a "documentary horror" about memory, addiction and guilt.

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

31/08/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Not So Silent Protest /PL/ 📢
director: Celina Przyklek, editor: Filip Wojciechowski, producer: Wojciech Szczerba, Media Synergia

👉🏼 An acclaimed Polish artist sacrifices his career, relationships and stability as activism consumes his life. What begins as artistic expression gradually becomes a struggle with pressure, identity, and the cost of constantly fighting for visibility and change.

30/08/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Slava /SK, IT, CZ/ 💫
director: Soňa G. Lutherová, editor: Peter Harum, producer: Nataša Ďuričová, Azyl Production

👉🏼 An intimate journey with pioneering opera director Sláva Daubnerová as she brings avant-garde interpretations of classic operas to European stages.
Through her work, Sláva seeks to capture the essence of today's world, all while walking the fine line between her art and the search for her own sense of self.

28/08/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Marathon /SK, CZ, FR/ 🏃🏻‍♂️
director: Peter Kerekes, editor: Martin Piga, producer: Tereza Tokárová, kerekesfilm

👉🏼 Through the history of the Marathon, held for a hundred years in Košice, a small city in central Europe, we learn stories woven across the world. Stories of people running for freedom, running to be ahead of time, running to run. The history of the town and the history of the marathon are blurring into one. From the first marathon, Košice was part of four different governments. The regime changed, but the marathon stayed. This track and blue lines on the road marking the way to the past. Behind the bend is the present which disappears in the fog of autumn morning in the memory of the runners.

27/08/2026

Read more about this year's dok.incubator selection at Modern Times Review 👇🏼

The Visegrad region’s leading rough-cut training programme has revealed its selection for 2026. dok.incubator has chosen eight documentary projects to enter the workshop, where filmmaking te…

27/08/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Valley of the Heart /CZ, SK/ 🪔
director: Theodora Remundová, editor: Šimon Špidla, producer: Jiri Konecny, Endorfilm

👉🏼 Purna, a young Nepalese man from the highest caste of Himalayan Brahmins, grew up in a remote mountain valley. He sets out for Europe, where he hopes to earn money and free himself from the rules and regulations of his family and culture. Far from home, Purna realizes that he cannot entirely escape his destiny. During his visits home, it is as if he was traveling back in time, but also into his own inner self. He is eagerly searching for a life partner to share his future with him in Czechia.

26/08/2026

SELECTED FOR DOK.INCUBATOR 2026 WORKSHOP:
Generation Nika: Young and Restless /CZ/ 🤳
directors: Zdeněk Chaloupka, Vojtech Hönig, editor: Libor Alexa, producer: Jakub Pinkava, Punk Film

👉🏼 Czech filmmaker Vojtech and volunteer Alice launch a workshop for front-line youth. Hours later, 17-year-old artist Nika is killed in a missile strike. Her lingering poems and art become the film's beating heart. Blending raw observation with the teenagers’ own video diaries, this intimate, raw, and unexpectedly funny portrait captures a fierce generation holding onto love, laughter, and lipstick next to tourniquets. They refuse to be victims; they insist on telling their own story.

25/08/2026

We are so excited that we can finally share the SELECTED PROJECTS for dok.incubator 2026! 🥳

🟠 Marathon /SK, CZ, FR/ director: Peter Kerekes, editor: Martin Piga, producer: Tereza Tokárová
🟠 Valley of the Heart /CZ, SK/ director: Theodora Remundová, editor: Šimon Špidla, producer: Jiří Konečný
🟠 My Shining Darkness /HU, PL/ director: Lia Lőrinczy, editor: Dániel Márton, producers: Julianna Ugrin, Petra Pantyi
🟠 Generation Nika: Young and Restless /CZ/ directors: Zdeněk Chaloupka,Vojtech Hönig, editor: Libor Alexa, producer: Jakub Pinkava
🟠 Layers of Disobedience /CZ/ director, editor: Barbora Johansson Pivonkova, producer: Kristýna Drozdová
🟠 Slava /SK, IT, CZ/director: Soňa G. Lutherová, editor: Peter Harum, producer: Nataša Ďuričová
🟠 Not So Silent Protest /PL/ director: Celina Przyklek, editor: Filip Wojciechowski, producer: Wojciech Szczerba
🟠 The Curse /PL/ director: Jakub Jakubik, editor: Szymon Kuczyński, producer: Piotr Uśmiech