ATLANTIDOC – International Documentary Film Festival of Uruguay
October 21 to 31, 2025
Atlantidoc is Uruguay's leading International Documentary Film Festival. Founded in 2006, it takes place annually to showcase the most compelling new documentaries from around the world while nurturing the next generation of Ibero-American filmmakers.
Held each year in the final quarter, the festival offers screenings, competitions, masterclasses, workshops, and networking opportunities. It highlights both emerging and established filmmakers, selecting films based on artistic quality, thematic relevance, and creative originality.
With nearly two decades of continuous programming, Atlantidoc has earned a respected place in the international documentary community. Known for its professionalism, creative vision, and commitment to documentary education, it is the only festival of its kind in Uruguay.
Through partnerships and one of Latin America's longest-running project development programs, Atlantidoc has supported hundreds of filmmakers, contributing to the evolution of the genre in the region. The festival continues to grow, championing socially engaged storytelling and connecting creators and audiences worldwide.
ATLANTIDOC 2025 will feature:
A) COMPETITION SHOWCASE.
Productions with the following characteristics will be admitted: international documentaries with a duration between 10 and 100 minutes, completed as of July 2024.
The presentations of the selected documentaries will be in movie theaters or streaming platforms or television channels, geo-referenced to Uruguay
only and in agreement with the producer or distributor of the work. The Festival Organization, in agreement with the producers and exhibitors, and taking into account the audiences of each screening space, will decide the programming grid and the screening dates and times of each film.
B) THE INFORMATIVE SHOWING includes:
-Documentaries not unreleased in Uruguay or prior to the production deadline, which due to their interest justify the programming.
This Showcase will provide specialists and the general public with a broad panorama of
C) PARALLEL SECTIONS will have specially invited material for their diffusion within the festival.
The programmed works will have in common their thematic unity, author or origin.
The organizers reserve the right to reject, for the Competition Showcase, those documentaries that do not comply with the conditions indicated in these Regulations.
Propaganda films will be excluded from the festival, as well as educational films exclusively for classroom support, or merely commercial films.
For more information on past editions, submissions, and upcoming programming, visit www.atlantidoc.com.
For the works in Competition, the following awards will be granted to the documentaries considered the best by the different juries. Each award pays tribute to a filmmaker who has left an important path, pioneers in some cases and fundamental references in others:
ATLANTIDOC AWARD to the best documentary of the Festival, Félix Oliver Award.
BEST URUGUAYAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD, Mario Handler Award.
BEST IBERO-AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD, Eduardo Coutinho Award.
BEST FIRST OPERA PRIZE, Kristina Konrad Award.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL and SHORT FILM AWARDS, Enrico Gras and Ferruccio Musitelli awards.
BEST URUGUAYAN DOCUMENTARY IN CONSTRUCTION AWARD, Ronald Melzer Award. SIGNIS AWARD for the best documentary of the festival, María Blanca Pígola Award.
The three-member Jury, made up of artists, film experts and critics of renowned trajectory, appointed by the organizers, will grant the awards. The special awards will have their own juries, made up of representatives of the institutions that grant them. Persons with interests in the production and/or exploitation of the films presented in competition will not be allowed to be part of the Jury.
The SIGNIS Jury (International Catholic Association for Communication) provides an international jury for its award.
The Awards will be presented to the directors and producers of the winning films or their representatives at the Closing Ceremony of the Festival, to which all are invited.
The Festival Organization will put into competition the works it considers most suitable for such purposes, according to the guidelines followed by all international documentary film festivals, always depending on the quality of the films.
The presentations of the selected documentaries will be in movie theaters or streaming platforms or television channels, geo-referenced to Uruguay only and in agreement with the producer or distributor of the work.