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Doc10 returns for our 11th year — and we are now a 10-day festival, running April 24-May 3, 2026 at the @davistheater and @filmcenter!

Mark your calendars, and stay tuned for more programming announcements.
Four Doc10 films are on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature:

FOLKTALES
MISTRESS DISPELLER
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA

Stay tuned to see if any land Oscar nominations!
Thank you @chicagodcase for supporting us with a 2025 CityArts program grant! #DCASEgrants

Stay tuned for exciting updates on our 2026 programming. #DCASEgrants #DCASE #Chicago #Chicagoart
CMP couldn’t be prouder to be a presenting funder of this doc - to premiere at TIFF- Sept 13th @3pm! #tiff #lilithfair
Coming off our most successful Doc10 film festival to date, we are faced with the reality that our prized Shifting Voices Film Fund, like so many other worthy foundations and organizations, has been defunded by the NEA.

Since 2022 SVFF has helped fi
What an incredible closing to Doc10's tenth year!  Last night we were honored to have the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Dame Jacinda Ardern, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in attendance for the screening of "Prime Minister"
Doc10 weekend is in full swing! Today at the Davis Finding Solutions to Documentary Distribution Panel + Lunch

Saturday May 3rd, 11:30-1pm

Join moderator Lauren Pabst from the MacArthur Foundation, Josh Braun from Submarine, Geralyn Dreyfous of Jol
Last night's SOLD OUT Doc10 premiere of MOVE YA BODY: THE BIRTH OF HOUSE was an absolute blast! 

Don't miss your chance to get tickets to other hot selling screenings such as ANTIDOTE, DEAF PRESIDENT NOW and MISTRESS DISPELLER. We will also have sta
The 10th Annual Doc10 film festival opens tonight! And don't forget to get your tickets for Sunday's closing night presentation of PRIME MINISTER with newly announced special guest Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. 
 
PRIME MINISTER is an embo
Join DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! co-director and Deaf activist Nyle DiMarco at the film's Doc10 Chicago premiere this Saturday night! Tickets are going fast for this rousing and "propulsive" “crowdpleasing” chronicle of speaking truth t
We are so grateful for our Docs in Chicago community partners!  Join Doc10 and Sisters in Cinema for an encode screening of GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT on Monday, April 28, 6 PM followed by Q&A with with Erika Dilday from POV a
Doc10 is proud to welcome world-renowned investigative journalist Christo Grozev, filmmaker James Jones, and Mother Jones D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn for the Doc10 screening of ANTIDOTE, an immersive and captivating docu-thriller following Grozev as
Doc10 Opening Night is one week away! Join us for the defining story of Chicago's house music scene MOVE YA BODY: THE BIRTH OF HOUSE followed by afterparty at SmartBar with DJ Celeste! Get your tickets for the premiere AND afterparty at Doc10.org and

 

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