Odemira to host Doc's Kingdom documentary film seminar

The Doc's Kingdom International Documentary Film Seminar is scheduled to take place in Odemira, Portugal, from November 13 to 18. Organized by Apordoc (Associação pelo Documentário) and supported by the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA) and the Odemira Municipality, the event will gather over one hundred participants from around the world.

The 2026 theme, titled “Undercurrents, counterspells,” focuses on the role of cinema in a world experiencing crisis. The seminar aims to examine the production, circulation, and reception of images amidst processes of rapid dispossession and colonial violence. The program features works addressing historical resistance and political imagination, including themes such as Mesoamerican resistance, the Palestinian liberation movement, and utopian experiences in post-war Lebanon, former Yugoslavia, and rural Portugal.