Co-created by DOX BOX and AFAC, the Documentary Convention  is an annual convening of documentary professionals, artists & decision-makers from the Arab region, Africa, Europe and from around the globe.

In its third year we are moving the Doc Convention from Leipzig to Berlin, taking the best of the previous editions with us and integrating them into a forward-looking vision. The 2020 edition takes place from 7-9 April at the Berliner Union Film Ateliers (BUFA), which overlooks the famous Tempelhof Airport is steeped in rich history and has played an important role in storytelling for over 100 years.

Doc Convention 2020 will be designed as inspirational think-tank event that invites participants to brainstorm and aims at formulating and addressing the big questions ahead in documentary in a shifting audiovisual space. What is the nature of this space and where is it going, and how do we ensure that we are fit for and participants in the changes ahead and ready to occupy and shape our space inside of them?

Doc Convention 2020 is a rare space of collective reflection on how to break entrenched formats and to come up with innovative solutions for existing challenges. It aims at strengthening an translocal community of doc artists across borders, to ignite critical debate and initiate lasting change processes.

Doc Convention 2020 invites its participants from the Arab region, Africa and from around the world to critically engage into a forward looking vision. It will host around 100 active participants which are all part of the think-tank and brainstorming activities without hierarchies and limitations.

As the DOX BOX is going through a re-structuring process in 2024, the Doc Convention is suspended until further notice.