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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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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 – Péter 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.

Changes in the Leadership of Tempo Documentary Festival

Tempo Documentary Festival is undergoing a partial leadership change as Ida Thorén has stepped down from her role as festival director. As part of an organizational review, Cecilia Björk will step in as interim festival director until the next edition of the festival.