Baltic Sea Docs

15/10/2026

Next step if your documentary was pitched at Baltic Sea Docs and is at the fine cut stage!

Last Stop Trieste is back for 13th edition – a work-in-progress showcase run by Trieste Film Festival and When East Meets West.

It’s open to fine cuts of projects previously developed or presented at one of its partner platforms, including Baltic Sea Docs.

⏰ Applications are open until 30 October, 2026

Selected teams will:
✅ Screen a selection of scenes to international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors
✅ Give a short presentation of their project
✅ Join a moderated feedback session with hand-picked decision-makers, in person in Trieste

📍 Trieste, Italy, alongside Trieste Film Festival and When East Meets West
📅 17–19 January 2027

📄 Guidelines: https://www.wemw.it/works-in-progress/last-stop-trieste/

14/10/2026

After the pitch comes the long road to the screen… Every year, BBPostHouse offers their support to one project on its way to the finish.

Since 2019, the year Baltic Sea Docs first began presenting awards, BBPostHouse has been one of our award partners, offering post-production services worth €3,000.

BBPostHouse is one of the most experienced film post-production companies in the Baltics, offering the full post-production cycle as well as digitisation and restoration of film and video materials. This matters for documentaries: many rely on archival film and video footage that needs restoring before it can be used, yet few post-production houses offer this service.

This year, at our 30th anniversary edition, the BBPostHouse Award went to “Going Underground” by Armands Začs (Latvia/Estonia/Finland), produced by Mistrus Media. BBposthouse also joined our Meet the Industry Guests roundtable to present their services to documentary filmmakers.

In the photos – this year’s winners along with the two previous award recipients – “Threads of My Ancestors”, dir. Carlos E. Lesmes (Estonia, 2025) and “Sacred Songs”, dir. Nona Giunashvili (Georgia, 2024).

We’re proud of this long-standing partnership and thankful for BBposthouse’s support of documentary filmmaking in the region!

08/10/2026

"Where did the time go?"

Preparing the Baltic Sea Docs 30th anniversary newspaper was an opportunity to look back carefully – gathering data, tracing project trajectories and seeing the forum as it has unfolded over three decades.

We got to count that Baltic Sea Docs has brought together 668 projects from 41 countries and 510 decision makers (with YLE present for all 30 editions! 👏).

Beyond the numbers, the newspaper features reflections from Zane Krūmiņa, Lelda Ozola, and Tue Steen Müller (the only person who has been part of every single edition! ❤), a detailed timeline from Bornholm 1997 to Riga 2026, highlighted films from across the decades, and voices from filmmakers and industry professionals on what BSD has meant to them.

Find the digital version in the comments 👇

Newspaper cover image: "Where Everything Disappears" (dir. Oleksandr Tkachenko) being pitched at BSD 2023

29/09/2026

A few more days to apply for Fipadoc - International Documentary Festival international pitches – applications are open until 2 October! 📣

◤2027 FIPADOC INTERNATIONAL PITCHES: CALL FOR PROJECTS

Fund your project! Now you can be among the 24 teams selected to pitch at the Fipadoc International Pitches and present your next documentary to a large group of international funders, distributors and co-producers.

If you are selected to pitch at Fipadoc, you will take part in an online booster workshop before coming to the pitch, run by international pitching experts to sharpen your pitch strategy and presentation. The Fipadoc International Pitches conclude with an awards ceremony celebrating the 24 selected projects.

📅Deadline: October 2, 2026

🌍 The 2027 edition focus highlights the Black Sea countries! Filmmakers from Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine benefit from a discount on their submission, and filmmakers from Palestine can submit their project for free.

📍Fipadoc Industry Days | January 25-28, 2027 | Biarritz
📍International Pitches | January 27-28, 2027 | Biarritz
📅 Submissions deadline: October 2, 2026
✍ Link in bio for further informations about the call

20/09/2026

Viens no galvenajiem šāgada dokumentālo filmu festivāla "Baltic Sea Docs" notikumiem, atzīmējot tā 30. gadadienu, bija retrospektīvs filmas "Ukrainas šerifi" seanss. Ar to saistīta arī izstāde, kas at...

18/09/2026

16/09/2026 - We zoom in on all of the winning projects presented at the Riga-based forum, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year

16/09/2026

14/09/2026 - Eight awards have been handed out at the Riga-based forum, which brings together filmmakers from the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus

15/09/2026

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