DEVELOPMENT – November 8-12, 2025 in Chisinau
We dig deep into the core of what the teams want to tell, enforce the storytelling, and focus on the ambition for each film in terms of impact, awareness, change.

CO-PRODUCTION – January 14-18, 2026 in Chisinau
We expand the participants’ knowledge of each other’s reality, production environment, financing structures. The pros and cons of co-production are used to strengthen each project, preparing them to meet the international market.

ENCOUNTER – March 14-18, 2026 during CPH:DOX in Copenhagen
The projects will be presented in the framework of the CPH:FORUM in round-table format and encounter the international market leading to the formulation of tailored strategies for each project.

Upcoming teams – director and producer – with a documentary project in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine can apply and we are committed to equal opportunity to all. We focus on projects set in these countries, projects that are open for co-production, and we welcome projects in the crossing field between documentary and journalism.

The working language is English, and participants should be comfortable with reading, writing, and speaking English.

The film project shall
– Demonstrate to cover topics of public interest in a professional and ethical way.
– Have an idea of how to reach intended audiences and be a call for action.
– Seek to have an impact on the public debate leading to potential social, political, or cultural change.
– Priority is given to productions focusing on issues of gender equality, marginalized groups and minorities, diversity, social change, current affairs, and human rights.

There is no participation fee as CHANGE provides tutoring, travel, lodging, and living. Participants will cover local transportation themselves.

For the 2025/2026 edition, eight teams will join the co-production training workshop series. The programme will consist of three residential workshops and a presentation of the projects in the framework of CPH:FORUM 2026. The projects have been selected.

For the next round of applications, some of the applicants might be invited for an online interview in August 2026, to further clarify the application. Final selection will be announced in early September 2026.

CHANGE is initiated and funded by IMS through the New Democracy Fund.

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. A festival that continues to develop and expand, presenting a program that ranges from the works of major international directors to new talents, from large-scale theatrical releases to film/video works in the field between cinema and visual art. The festival’s platform for professionals, CPH:INDUSTRY, attracting 2.000+ professional delegates annually, has established itself as a fundamental European documentary marketplace, offering a wide range of activities and services connecting independent documentary film producers and filmmakers with the major international funds, broadcasters, streaming platforms, sales agents, as well as art curators, science foundations, impact bodies, traditional and alternative exhibitors, investors and philanthropists in the fields related to cinema – and beyond.

IMS, International Media Support, is promoting journalism and documentary film to strengthen the capacity of media to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. Our work is geared towards helping locally-based public interest media operating in armed conflicts, humanitarian crises and rapid political change, both positive and negative, to provide the public and “civic organizations” with public interest content they can trust and use. We work in more than 40 countries across four continents with a staff of about 150 people.

EAVE is a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, our objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together with the aim of facilitating co-production relationships. We believe that the support of independent voices, creative imagination and culturally driven companies within the global media industries is an urgent necessity in the 21st century. Through our work we aim to contribute towards the creation of strong networks of producers and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills which will strengthen independent production across the world.

This call is organized in collaboration with the film festivals/organisations:

Docudays UA – Ukraine
MOLDOX – Moldova
CinéDOC – Tbilisi – Georgia
Golden Apricot – Armenia
Northern Lights – Belarus

We wish to also thank the National Film School of Denmark and Millennium Docs Against Gravity for their collaboration.