Belleville Downtown DocFest Archives

Review our festival programming archive from 2014 onwards.

Festival TRAILERS

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Check out our Festival Q&A videos with select directors, and our complete selection of 2021 Films (browse the catalog below).

2023 Festival Trailer

2022 Festival Trailer

2021 Festival Trailer

2020 Festival Trailer


2023 Film ProGRAM (ARCHIVE)

Browse the 12th annual Downtown DocFest catalog – 50+ Films.

A Gala Music Doc & Music Performance. Filmmaker Q&A’s. The 12th annual festival ran from March 3-12, 2023. Browse the Catalog here.

Crows Are White

Crows Are White

Crows Are White In this quirky and beautiful documentary, filmmaker Ahsen Nadeem seeks spiritual guidance ...
Still image from the short documentary film, Dad Can Dance

Dad Can Dance

Dad Can Dance Retired office worker David Ross was a ballet dancer, but for 45 ...
Still image from the feature documentary, Dead Weight

Dead Weight (Peso Morto)

Dead Weight (Peso Morto) Angelo Massaro spent twenty-one years of his life imprisioned, unjustly, before ...
Poster Image for the film Dear Audrey

Dear Audrey

Dear Audrey IN-PERSON SCREENING ONLY Filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes feature documenting the life and inner dynamics ...


2022 Film ProGRAM (ARCHIVE)

For the 11th annaul Downtown DocFest – we presented 50+ Films.

A Gala Music Doc & Music Performance. Filmmaker Q&A’s. Ten Days of Docs – March 4-13, 2022. Browse the 2022 Catalog here.

Bangla Surf Girls

Bangla Surf Girls

Bangla Surf Girls Three young teenage girls break away from their daily lives of domestic ...
Bank Job

Bank Job

Bank Job The 2008 financial crisis sounded alarm bells around the world. Fed up with ...
Becoming

Becoming

Becoming For 11-year-old Bryan the summer means working in the picturesque Mexican countryside raising fighting ...
Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry This feature tells the story of the chemist Sasha Shulgin and ...


2021 Film ProGRAM (ARCHIVE)

The 2021 Festival films selection were available to stream online from March 5-14, 2021

Photo from film, smelling bread loaves

Bread: An Everyday Miracle

Bread: An Everyday Miracle A look at two sides of the bread industry and the ...
Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain)

Call Me Human (Je m’appelle humain)

Call Me Human (e m'appelle humain) “Sauvage,” says Joséphine Bacon, “means to be wholly free.” ...
Chaakapesh

Chaakapesh

Chaakapesh An orchestra and its famous maestro Kent Nagano tour the northern tundra of Quebec ...
Collective

Collective

Collective A tragic fire in a Bucharest nightclub in 2015 leaves 27 dead and 180 ...

Festival Programs (PDF versions, 2014-2020)