MakeDox 2026 Creative Documentary Film Festival
MakeDox 2026 Creative Documentary Film Festival is now open for entries!
The MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival has opened submissions for 2026 and like every every year calls all filmmakers around the world to participate in the Festival’s competition programs.
Short description
The 17th edition of MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festiva, organized by the citizen’s association MakeDox, recently has opened submissions for 2026 and like every year calls all filmmakers around the world to participate in its competition programs.
MakeDox aims to promote creative documentary film production in North Macedonia and to support documentary storytelling in general.
The Festival focuses on creating a stimulating environment for the exchange of experience and knowledge of documentary creation and promotion of films with cinematographic quality, offering the creative point of view of an author, both in terms of content as well as in form.
The MakeDox festival program in 2026 consists of four competitive sections:
➜ Onion – Main Competitive Program open to mid- or full-length creative documentaries from all countries of the world.
➜ Young Onion – Newcomers Competitive Program open to creative documentaries that are the director’s first or second documentary film (mid or full-length) from all countries of the world.
➜ Onion Seed – Competitive Program of Students’ creative documentary films of any length from all countries of the world.
➜ Sliced Onion – Competitive Program of short creative documentary films (up to 30 minutes).
Submission to the festival is open to creative documentary films of all running times, topics, style and production technologies completed and/or publicly screened after 1 January 2024. Priority is given to national, regional and foreign premieres.
The 2026 festival is scheduled for 20th — 27th August in Skopje, North Macedonia and accompanied with the MakeDox Traveling Cinema (decentralized festival event) through 6-10 Macedonian villages in June – September 2026.
Who may enter?
The MakeDox 2026 Creative Documentary Film Festival is open to all filmmakers around the world.
Prize:
Different awards will be assigned.
Entry fees:
➜ Early Bird Deadline (1 February 2026)
- Main Competitive Program (Onion Award): €25
- Newcomers Competitive Program (Young Onion Award): €15
- Competitive Program of short creative documentary films (Sliced Onion Award): €10
- Student Films: €5
➜ Regular Deadline (1 April 2026)
- Main Competitive Program (Onion Award): €35
- Newcomers Competitive Program (Young Onion Award): €25
- Competitive Program of short creative documentary films (Sliced Onion Award): €20
- Student Films: €10
➜ Late Deadline (1 May 2026)
- Main Competitive Program (Onion Award): €50
- Newcomers Competitive Program (Young Onion Award): €35
- Competitive Program of short creative documentary films (Sliced Onion Award): €30
- Student Films: €15
