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Shitang, Zhejiang, 7–9 December 2025. The opening, the masterclasses, the selection screenings, a midnight section and the awards night, together with Shitang’s Da Zou Gu drum ritual. Everything here is from the second edition.

2025

Those three days

The second edition was staged together with the Donghai International Documentary Masterclass Camp in Shitang, Zhejiang — a stone fishing town on the East China Sea known as “the Notre-Dame of the East”. Twelve of 502 entries reached the final round, and five jurors decided the outcome after four hours of debate.

Enter this edition

Opening ceremony

Jury and selection certificates presented, with a performance by the Da Zou Gu drummers of Shitang.

Donghai International Documentary Forum

Head of selection Jin Huaqing on the preliminary round: the finalists, and the films that got away.

Creative masterclasses

Led by Zlatina Rousseva, Zhao Jia and Zhou Hao.

Screenings of the selection

All twelve finalists screened with the directors present; Du Haibin, Gu Tao and Fan Jian joined the discussions.

Midnight screenings

Jin Huaqing’s 《绛红森林》 and Zhou Hao’s The Factory.

Closing night

The jury president and the panel in conversation with the audience about the winning films, followed by the awards.

Video

2025 Selection Trailer

Cut from all twelve films of the official selection. · 1:37

2025 Closing Reel

Three days in Shitang: the opening, the masterclasses, the Q&As and the awards night. · 1:58

Photographs

The opening, with the Da Zou Gu drummers — a Shitang intangible cultural heritage — and Delaye of France dancing with them in traditional Chinese dress.

The second edition assembled on the hillside at Shitang — filmmakers, jurors and guests, with the posters of the selected films.

Arriving on the red carpet, against the wall of jury and guest portraits.

Representatives of the selected films with their certificates.

On the seaside stage, backed by the posters of the selection and the East China Sea.

The Donghai International Documentary Forum: the work of selection, and a reading of the films that made it.

In front of the Donghai International Documentary Masterclass Camp backdrop.

A screening from the official selection, followed by a conversation with the director.

The awards, handed over with the sea and hills of Shitang behind.

On the lawn on opening day, documentary people from China and abroad in conversation.

Introducing a screening of the official selection. Shitang, China, 2025.

Zlatina Rousseva’s creative masterclass.

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