DCDOXFEST: June 11-14, 2026

This June 11–14, @dcdoxfest returns to Washington, DC for its fourth edition, bringing together 100+ new documentaries—including a powerful slate of films exploring our relationship to the natural world.

From fragile ecosystems and disappearing landscapes to communities on the front lines of change, these stories capture the beauty, urgency, and complexity of life on Earth.

Screenings + filmmaker Q&As
Downtown Washington, DC: Regal Gallery Place, Eaton Cinema, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company + more
June 11–14
Get your tickets here: $17 (Save 10% with code DC10DOX)

Featured films include:

SUPER NATURE: A global love letter to nature, filmed entirely on Super 8, invites us into a spellbinding journey of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on Earth—human and nonhuman—as people embrace beauty, abundance, and loss.

THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2: A complex, harrowing, and deeply moving portrait of the evolving world of extreme mountain climbing, following a 2021 expedition in which Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Pakistani father-son team Ali and Sajid Sadpara attempt the first winter summit of K2.

TIME AND WATER: Facing the loss of his country’s glaciers and the impending death of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away.

DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST: Deep in Mexico’s forests, two Indigenous mycologists seek to reconcile the past and present while reimagining the future for themselves and a changing world.

THE ENDLESS FRONTIER: An urgent portrait of three scientists confronting some of the most pressing challenges of our time, revealing the growing threat to the American research ecosystem—and what is at stake if it begins to falter.

HARVEST: The Nelson brothers are on a mission to become the largest farmers in the U.S., but after two years of poor harvests, a new season brings as much opportunity as uncertainty.

THE LAKE: An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race against the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe.

TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN: In the highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter defend their ancestral land from becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of past violence.

THE SIEGE OF PARADISE: Every summer, nearly four million tourists—TikTokers, Instagrammers, and selfie-seekers among them—descend on Cinque Terre and its 3,000 residents.

Shorts include: A DERAILMENT, BUCKSKIN, ENDLINGS, LA MAR, PLANT LIFE, STILL STANDING, LISTEN, TOSS A ROSE OVER, GATORVILLE, and THE BOYS AND THE BEES playing within three programs: “A Reckoning” on Friday June 12 at 5:00PM, “Vanishing Point” on Saturday at 5:45PM, “Time Being” on Sunday, June 14 at 5:15PM and “The Tender Age” on Friday, June 12 at 2:00PM.

Join us in experiencing bold nonfiction storytelling that asks how we live with—and protect—the world around us.

Go to @dcdoxfest or dcdoxfest.com to learn more and get tickets. And save 10% when you use the code "DC10DOX"!

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