ANOTHER STORY

This is not the film history you know. It’s documentary cinema shaped by women filmmakers—films that don’t just record reality, but press on it until it shifts.

ANOTHER STORY invites audiences to discover films by women directors at four European festivals and online. Moving between intimate domestic spaces and the structures of institutional power, the programme traces gestures of resistance, confronts social taboos, and lingers on the politics embedded in everyday life. As diverse in form as in subject, the films stretch the boundaries of documentary itself. Told in a poetic, risk-taking language—at times blurring documentary and fiction, at others embracing the experimental—they are formally inventive, politically sharp, and emotionally precise. Still urgent now.

The mission of ANOTHER STORY is to enhance the visibility, accessibility, and circulation of overlooked works by women filmmakers, spark curiosity, encourage dialogue, and share their artistic visions and cultural contributions. By reconnecting with the legacy of pioneering women in film, the project aims to inspire future generations of documentary creators while contributing to a collective pan-European effort to reshape film history through education, participation, and rediscovery. 

ANOTHER STORY is a two-year collaboration between five European partners: HER Docs Foundation (Poland), Festival dei Popoli (Italy), The Good Media Network / Doxumentale (Germany), Balkan Documentary Center / Sofia DocuMental (Bulgaria) and Cineuropa (Belgium).