{"id":262982,"date":"2026-01-21T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionsdureel.ch\/?p=262982"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:00:10","slug":"festival-network-doc-alliance-presents-guest-festival-2026-golden-apricot-iff-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/festival-network-doc-alliance-presents-guest-festival-2026-golden-apricot-iff-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Network Doc Alliance presents guest festival 2026: Golden Apricot IFF in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The festival network Doc Alliance<\/a> reveals this year\u2019s guest festival. At the regular Doc Alliance meeting in December 2025, the seven partner festivals thanked the 2025 guest festival Punto de Vista<\/a> for the fruitful collaboration and welcomed GAIFF, the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival<\/a>, as their partner for 2026.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As the Doc Alliance guest festival, GAIFF<\/a> will participate in joint events and meetings at which the network members exchange experiences and ideas regarding topics such as educational practices, supporting emerging talents, XR programming, inclusive programming and sustainability. Furthermore, the festival will nominate one short and one feature-length film for the Doc Alliance Award and co-select this year\u2019s jury.

Founded in 2004 in Yerevan, Armenia, the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF)<\/a> is guided by the principle of being a \u201cCrossroads of Cultures and Civilizations.\u201d The festival\u2019s mission is rooted in building bridges and fostering meaningful dialogue between cultures through cinema. GAIFF welcomes films from across the world that reflect diverse ethnicities, religions, and national identities, united by a shared exploration of the human experience. The festival\u2019s program brings together fiction and documentary films without distinction of form, and features International and Regional Competition sections, a short film program dedicated to emerging Armenian filmmakers, as well as a range of
non-competitive sections showcasing both contemporary works and classic masterpieces of world cinema.

The Doc Alliance network of documentary film festivals supports emerging talents in European documentary film. Each of the seven members (CPH:DOX<\/a>, Doclisboa<\/a>, DOK Leipzig<\/a>, FIDMarseille<\/a>, Ji.hlava IDFF<\/a>, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF <\/a>and Visions du R\u00e9el<\/a>) as well as the guest festival select one short and one feature-length documentary film to compete for the Doc Alliance Award.

The shortlisted films for the 2026 Doc Alliance Award will be announced in late April. The winners will be presented at Cannes Docs<\/a> (March\u00e9 du Film, 12 \u2013 20 May).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival \u2013 GAIFF \u2013 will be the guest festival of the Doc Alliance network in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":262981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.visionsdureel.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}