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| Location | Leuven, Belgium |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Awards | Best Belgian Documentary Best international documentary Best TOPICS Documentary Best Science Documentary Audience Award |
| No. of films | 85 (2024) |
| Language | Dutch, English |
| Website | https://www.docville.be/ |
The International Documentary Film Festival Docville is an annual documentary film festival set in Leuven, Belgium.
Docville was founded in 2005 as a thematical series within the arthouse movie theatre Cinema ZED. In the next edition the festival added competitive sections and became independent of the movie theatre. Docville takes place each year in different locations within the city of Leuven. It is the only annual, competitive documentary-only film festival in Belgium. In June 2018 the festival announced it is one of 28 film festivals in the world whose jury award-winning film will be placed on the longlist of the documentary feature category for the Academy Awards
The 16th edition was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis (original dates: March 25 to April 2, 2020) to September 25 - October 3, 2020. The 17th edition is postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis to June 9-19th 2021. The 20th edition is planned between March 20-28th 2024. In 2023 a new section was added to the festival, dedicated to science related documentaries and activities: ScienceVille. The Nationale Loterij Prijs for best science documentary was added as a new award, therefor the old ConScience Award (which also could include science related documentaries) has been renamed to TOPICS.