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Key dates this fall

We will shortly close the Tempo offices for the summer holidays. In the mean time we wish to inform you about some upcoming key dates.

Please note that all of the competitions below are for projects with a Swedish production company as a majority producer.

September 11th
The application for Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Short Award and New Doc will open.

November 1st
The application for Tempo Pitch will open.

November 12th
The application for Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Short Award and New Doc will close.

November 13th
The application for Short Dox Radio will open.

January 7th
The application for Short Dox Radio and Tempo Pitch will close.

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Open Call x 2

We are now opening submissions for Work in Progress as well as for documentary works in all genres ahead of the festival, 2–8 March 2026. Public works in all documentary forms wanted! Tempo is a festival for all kinds of …

This year’s theme is… FICTIONS

The staged, the faked, the synthetic, the AI-generated, the dramatic, the polished, the entirely made up. In this year's edition of Tempo Documentary Festival we will deep dive in the fictional and explore how different forms of fiction create perspectives on reality and shift the boundaries for documentary storytelling.

Guest of Honour – Peter Kerekes

A master of balancing the documentary and the fictional is this year's guest of honor, the Slovakian director Péter Kerekes. It's funny, it's ludicrous, it's brutal, terrible and straight to the point.