4. İzmir Belgesel Festivali (IZDOC)
IZDOC Izmir International Documentary Festival

21 - 24 Ocak 2026

Düzenleyen
Festival Direktörü - Tahir Ün
Festival Koordinatörü - Devrim Taban

Visus Oü
Kesklinna linnaosa, Vana-Veerenni tn 4-15
Tallinn, Harjumaa 10135
Estonia

http://www.izdoc.org
tahirun @ gmail.com









Gösterim Seçkisi

Uluslararası Deneysel Belgesel Film Yarışması

Halal Dreams / Deneysel Belgesel / Mohammed Mamdouh
The Land In Between / Deneysel Belgesel / Yilu Zhou
Under my Mother's Roof / Uzun Deneysel Belgesel / Christian Abi Abboud / 01:13:00

Uluslararası Kısa Belgesel Film Yarışması

Adas Falasteen / Belgesel / Shamar Taher Lulu, Hamdi Khalil el Husseini
Ailing Land (Sukande Kasáká) / Belgesel / Kamikia Kisedje, Fred Rahal / 00:30:00
Baghdad Graphic / Belgesel / D.K. Odessa /
Bocuk: Kadim Bir Ritüel (Bocuk: An Ancient Ritual) / 2025 / Belgesel / Buğra Mert Alkayalar / 00:20:00
Enemy Number Three / Belgesel / Vladimir Sumashedov /
Fekry's Thoughts / Belgesel / Essam Hayder / 00:20:00
Forty Days Road / Belgesel / Ali Ziani /
GIOJA22 / Belgesel / Stefano De Felici /
Maestro’s hands / Belgesel / Aleksey Barykin /
Mukunan Aprendiz de Pajé / Belgesel / Rodrigo Sena Sena Sena /
Not My Film / Belgesel / Astra Zoldnere /
Şeker Tadında (Sugar Taste) / 2023 / Belgesel / Adem Giliz / 00:17:48
The Stonemason’s Daughter / Belgesel / Arturo Franco /
Trains / Belgesel / Maciej Drygas /
Wind Blows By / Belgesel / Paula Fuentes, Guillermo Carrera /
Yazbek: A Portrait / Belgesel / Frederick Shelbourne, Lucy Andia /
Ailing Land (Sukande Kasáká) / Belgesel / Kamikia Kisedje, Fred Rahal / 00:30:00

Uluslararası Uzun Belgesel Film Yarışması

Bir Foça Efsanesi: Nihat Dirim (A Legend of Foça: Nihat Dirim ) / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Hakan Barçın / 01:00:00
Chanting of the Dunes / Uzun Belgesel / Mokhless Al-Hariri /
Fatherland (Vaderland) / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Özgür Canel / 01:01:00
I Just Keep Dancing / Uzun Belgesel / Natasha Fefelova, Galina Goldfeld /
Le chien qui boit le thé / Uzun Belgesel / Jean-Claude Moschetti Moschetti, Arnaud Nouvel /
Mexico Day Zero / Uzun Belgesel / Pablo Siciliano /
Mother of Snow Cranes / Uzun Belgesel / Iiris Härmä / 01:18:00
The Mission / Uzun Belgesel / Gaza Collective /
Yalla, Baba! / Uzun Belgesel / Angie Obeid

Türkiye’den Belgeseller Bölümü

Biz Radyoyu Çok Sevdik / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Nazan Haydari, Özden Cankaya, Cem Hakverdi / 01:05:00
Ceyar'ı Kim Öldürdü / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Gül Abus Semerci / 00:46:00
E Blok, Daire 5 / 2025 / Belgesel / Çağla Gillis / 00:12:54
İçimdeki Mevsimler (The Seasons Within Me) / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Sevda Doğan / 01:00:00
Kardeş Türküler: 30 Yılın Öyküsü / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Ayşe Çetinbaş, Çayan Demirel / 01:42:00
Pasaj (Alley) / 2025 / Deneysel Belgesel / Defne Kırmızı / 00:05:35
Son Yuva (The Last Nest) / 2025 / Belgesel / Hasan Hüseyin Alkan / 00:04:34
Tanıştığıma Memnun Oldum (It Was Nice To Meet You) / 2025 / Belgesel / Jehan Barbur, Güneş Kazdal / 00:30:00
Toprağa Dönüş (Back To The Land) / 2024 / Belgesel / Kerem Kurtuluş / 00:14:42
Toprağın Hatırası / 2025 / Belgesel / Didem Tütüncü / 00:10:10
Zamanın Ustası (Master of Time) / 2024 / Belgesel / Muhittin Yüceli / 00:17:17
Özgür Kelimeler: Gazze'den Bir Şair / 2024 / Belgesel / Abdullah Harun İlhan / 00:23:56

Türkiye’den Öğrenci Belgeselleri Bölümü

Altay / 2025 / Belgesel / Pelin Girgin / 00:14:58
Cahide Sonku / 2024 / Belgesel / Nurullah Güzel / 00:16:41
Evara / 2024 / Deneysel / Cansu Carlak / 00:12:47
Evimiz Sinema (Our Home, The Theater) / 2024 / Belgesel / Fatma Nur Arslan, Gülsüm Aslan / 00:09:00
Foto Akgün / 2025 / Belgesel / Fidan Çaça / 00:11:20
Hiç (None) / 2025 / Deneysel Belgesel / Ezel Manay / 00:12:29
Kaçıncı El (HaulHaul) / 2025 / Belgesel / Yeliz Kıroğlu, Damla Mozioğlu / 00:22:22
Mosaic (موزايك) / 2025 / Belgesel / Ibrahim Ayoub / 00:05:06
Muapbet / 2023 / Uzun Belgesel / Senad Kutay Sipahioğlu, Ahmet Yiğit Şafak / 00:40:29
Rastgele (Tight lines) / 2025 / Belgesel / Cihan Berkay Mahçup / 00:17:46
Sen Gittiğinden Beri (Since You've Been Gone) / 2024 / Belgesel / Ayşegül Ongun / 00:11:39
Uzunkol (Longarms) / 2025 / Belgesel / Cemal Karaaslan / 00:15:00
Yolda Çalarken (Playing On The Road) / 2025 / Belgesel / Eminhan Çakır / 00:19:24

Özel Film Gösterimleri Bölümü

Alper Fidaner Anısına / 2026 / Belgesel / Ahmet Selim Sabuncu
Bellekvari: KuirFest’in Sözlü Tarihi / 2024 / Uzun Belgesel / Asya Leman, Çağla Sumru Kesik / 01:10:00
Bir Ömür Deniz / 2026 / Belgesel / Ahmet Özkan, Veyis Polat
Free Fish / 2025 / Belgesel / Bisan Owda / 00:22:13
Los Pasaroz Sefaradis / / Belgesel / Rose Modiano, Alberto Modiano
Teşekkürler Kaf Kaf / 2025 / Uzun Belgesel / Ömer Gümüşer / 00:40:00








Salute to those who created our reality by showing us the truth.

Izmir, one of the most beautiful cities in Turkey, is the country's 3rd largest metropolis with a population of 5 million. It is also an important tourism center with its historical and natural texture.
İZDOC - İzmir International Documentary Festival is also the first documentary film festival of the city and is - IMDb Qualifying Festival -

Would you take a look at our other festival we organize?
https://filmfreeway.com/videoartist



Awards & Prizes
- A digital certificate and laurels will be presented to the films accepted for the official selection and best film of each category.



Rules & Terms
Films of any completion date are eligible for submission. However, although it is not a prohibitive rule, we prefer that the accepted films have not been screened anywhere in Izmir prior to the festival.

IZDOC and VISUS does not pay any screening fees.

Preview screeners and exhibition screeners must either be in English and/or have English subtitles. However, if your film is accepted to the festival, you must send an English subtitle file to be translated into Turkish. Because we show all selected and award-winning films with Turkish subtitles.

Rough cuts are accepted for entry at the final deadline only. If you submit a rough cut, we cannot guarantee that IZDOC programmers will be able to review an updated cut at a later date. If you are submitting a rough cut, make sure it is indicated as such. Include the intended final running time and work remaining to be completed with your entry. IZDOC does not exhibit works-in-progress at the festival.

If your film has dialogue and is not in English or Turkish must have English subtitles. If your film is accepted to the official selection, all videos and films other than Turkish must submit English subtitle files. Because all films with dialogue will be shown with Turkish subtitles. Dialogue lists are not accepted.
DCP is NOT an accepted screening format.

You are responsible for updating IZDOC directly regarding any change to your contact information and ensuring that emails from @izdoc.org and @visusart.eu domain are not blocked by spam filters.

IZDOC requires an online screener to be uploaded to Vimeo (password protected private link), Youtube (unlisted link), or the FilmFreeway video player.
All entry deadlines are upload/postmark deadlines. Entries received after the final deadline may not be considered.

Jury decisions are final and cannot be objected.

Entry fees are non-refundable.

ADDITIONAL TERMS OF ENTRY:
(By submitting an application to the festival, you are deemed to have accepted the following declaration.)

By submitting this documentary, I understand that I am agreeing to the following: I own or control the copyright and am duly authorized to submit this film to IZDOC Documentary Festival. Should ownership or rights to my film change, this agreement to screen at the IZDOC Documentary Festival, will be honored, upheld and not be infringed.
If my film accepted to IZDOC, I will not withdraw my film from IZDOC. Upon selection for screening at IZDOC up to two minutes of footage from the film and/or one of photographs materials accompanying my entry may be used for promotional purposes.