Other sections of the festival are Right to Now, Looking for Home, Restless Ukraine, Who Is Normal Here?, Among the Species, Journeys to Freedom, The Power of the Media, So-called Civilization, Czech Perspectives, Panorama, iShorts: Looking for Home, Doc for Kids and One World Interactive.
Several guests will have masterclasses, including Zuzana Piussi, Fredrik Gertten, Kari Anne Moe and Roman Bondarchuk. The panel debates will focus among others on Where Is Ukraine Heading? Democracy in the Hansa, Robots: Friends for Old Age, The Internet in Government Hands.
Audience will have their chance to try eleven interactive documentaries. The festival will open a new Audience Centre in the renovated spaces of the Lucerna Gallery.
Most of the events of East Doc Platform, the greatest event for documentary filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe, will be open this year to general public. The festival will wrap on 16 March 2016.
Line up Main Competition:
A Flickering Truth (New Zealand, Afghanistan)
Directed by Pietra Brettkelly
A Syrian Lovestory (UK)
Directed by Sean McAllister
Among the Believers (Pakistan, USA)
Directed by Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Behemoth (France, China)
Directed by Liang Zhao
Democracy / Democracy - im Rausch der Daten (Germany)
Directed by David Bernet
No Man is an Island (Belgium)
Directed by Tim De Keersmaecker
Salero (USA, Bolivia)
Directed by Mike Plunkett
The Barber and the Bomb / Der Kuaför aus der Keupstrasse (Germany)
Directed by Andreas Maus
The Swedish Theory of Love (Sweden)
Directed by Erik Gandini
Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukraine, Latvia, Germany)
Directed by Roman Bondarchuk
Walls (Spain)
Directed by Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina
White Rage / Valkoinen Raivo (Finland)
Directed by Arto Halonen