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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
26th WATCH DOCS International Film Festival
26th WATCH DOCS International Film Festival. Human Rights in Film | December 4–13, 2026
For over 25 years, WATCH DOCS has been a festival that combines artistic documentary cinema with social engagement. This year, we once again invite you to KINOMUZEUM, where premieres, discussions, and meetings with filmmakers await us.
The program for the 26th edition features the most talked-about documentaries of recent months, experimental films, and premieres, all accompanied by meetings with filmmakers and discussions. One of the most important events will be a retrospective of Georgian director Salomé Jashi, this year’s recipient of the Marek Nowicki Award.
Among the nine films being presented is her latest, An Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia 10.06.93, which will have its Polish premiere at WATCH DOCS, shortly after its world premiere at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam. Following the screening of “The Tamed Garden”—arguably Jashi’s best-known film—the director will also lead a masterclass, during which she will discuss her search for cinematic form, working with subjects, and the use of archival footage.
Among this year’s selections, Barbora Chalupová’s “Virtual Girlfriends” is particularly noteworthy, as it examines the economic and emotional realities of online sex work. Meanwhile, the Green Competition will feature “Heat,” an evocative vision of a world where extreme temperatures are increasingly affecting people’s lives, as well as “Takkuuk. A Film About Ice and Memory” (TAKKUUK)—an extraordinary audiovisual journey to the Arctic, combining a narrative about the culture of indigenous communities with electronic music by the duo BICEP.
There will also be plenty of gala premieres. “The Boy Who Runs” is an unsentimental portrait of a family seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Jaś, whose parents use wheelchairs. Meanwhile, the daring “Johnny Blade” takes us into the world of Warsaw wrestling. The film will also be presented as part of the next edition of “The Invisible Film”—a special screening during which the visuals are replaced by audio description.
Post-screening discussions remain an important part of WATCH DOCS.
This year, we invite you to discussions on, among other topics, the social, economic, and ethical aspects of sex work, as well as neurodiversity—access to diagnosis and support.
The program also features films from three competition sections—the Main Competition, the New Polish Films Competition, and the Green Competition—as well as retrospectives dedicated to Ukraine and Palestine, and the “Large-Format Documentary: Anti-Hero” retrospective, focusing on ambiguous or fundamentally villainous characters.
The full festival program and screening schedule are available on the WATCH DOCS website.
For over 25 years, WATCH DOCS has been a festival that combines artistic documentary cinema with social engagement. This year, we once again invite you to KINOMUZEUM, where premieres, discussions, and meetings with filmmakers await us.
The program for the 26th edition features the most talked-about documentaries of recent months, experimental films, and premieres, all accompanied by meetings with filmmakers and discussions. One of the most important events will be a retrospective of Georgian director Salomé Jashi, this year’s recipient of the Marek Nowicki Award.
Among the nine films being presented is her latest, An Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia 10.06.93, which will have its Polish premiere at WATCH DOCS, shortly after its world premiere at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam. Following the screening of “The Tamed Garden”—arguably Jashi’s best-known film—the director will also lead a masterclass, during which she will discuss her search for cinematic form, working with subjects, and the use of archival footage.
Among this year’s selections, Barbora Chalupová’s “Virtual Girlfriends” is particularly noteworthy, as it examines the economic and emotional realities of online sex work. Meanwhile, the Green Competition will feature “Heat,” an evocative vision of a world where extreme temperatures are increasingly affecting people’s lives, as well as “Takkuuk. A Film About Ice and Memory” (TAKKUUK)—an extraordinary audiovisual journey to the Arctic, combining a narrative about the culture of indigenous communities with electronic music by the duo BICEP.
There will also be plenty of gala premieres. “The Boy Who Runs” is an unsentimental portrait of a family seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Jaś, whose parents use wheelchairs. Meanwhile, the daring “Johnny Blade” takes us into the world of Warsaw wrestling. The film will also be presented as part of the next edition of “The Invisible Film”—a special screening during which the visuals are replaced by audio description.
Post-screening discussions remain an important part of WATCH DOCS.
This year, we invite you to discussions on, among other topics, the social, economic, and ethical aspects of sex work, as well as neurodiversity—access to diagnosis and support.
The program also features films from three competition sections—the Main Competition, the New Polish Films Competition, and the Green Competition—as well as retrospectives dedicated to Ukraine and Palestine, and the “Large-Format Documentary: Anti-Hero” retrospective, focusing on ambiguous or fundamentally villainous characters.
The full festival program and screening schedule are available on the WATCH DOCS website.
