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 …
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The winners at Tempo Documentary Festival 2025!
Brave, cinematic, beautiful, warm, urgent. Read about the winning documentaries here.
Eight films competing for the Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award
Eight strong films are in the running for a cash prize of €3,000 in Tempo Documentary Festival's main international competition.
They are in the running for Tempo Documentary Award 2025
Tempo Documentary Award is one of Sweden’s largest documentary competitions. Eight Swedish films compete for a cash prize of 100,000 SEK.
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.