Festival HUB will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2026, from 7:30 PM at the Main Stage of Horácké Theatre and is open to holders of all accreditation types.

The Festival HUB served as a publicly accessible event within the Festival Identity section, held as part of the Industry program at the Ji.hlava IDFF. Festival HUB was a unique showcase of world film festivals, presented in the PechaKucha style, where each presentation consisted of 20 slides, each shown for no more than 20 seconds, including the commentary.

The PechaKucha format (meaning “chit-chat” in English) allows presenters less than seven minutes, making their talks concise and fast-paced, delivering only the most essential information.

Presentations

Festival HUB 2026 presentations

Marek Hovorka / Festival Director, Ji.hlava IDFF / Czech Republic
Ayumi Hata / Festival Director, Yamagata IDFF / Japan
Yewhan Joey / Head of Industry, Programmer, DMZ IDFF / South Korea
Lena Naassana / Competition Director, Two.Five / Egypt
Douglas Flint / Associate Director, American Documentary and Animation Film Festival (AmDocs) / Palm Springs / USA

Festival HUB 2020 presentations

Martichka Bozhilova / Balcan Documentary Center/ Bulgaria
Tereza Šimíková / CPH:FORUM/ Denmark
Veronika Janatková / DokuBaku / Azerbaijan
Christine Camdessus / FIPADOC / France
Maša Marković / SFF, CineLink Industry Days / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Patrizia Mancini / Sunny Side of the Doc / France
Alessandro Gropplero / When East Meets West / Italy

Festival HUB 2019 presentations

Ambulante Film Festival / Meghan Monsour / Mexico
Cinéma du Réel / Catherine Bizern / France
Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz / Sabine Gebetsroither / Austria
DMZ Docs / Kyungsoo Han / South Korea
International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava / Přemysl Martinek, Ondrej Starinský / Slovakia
IsReal Festival / Alessandro Stellino / Italy
SOFA – School of Film Agents / Nikolaj Nikitin / Germany
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival / Eglė Maceinaitė / Lithuania
Visions du Réel / Emilie Bujes / Switzerland

Festival HUB 2018 presentations

Berlinale Talents / Florian Weghorn / Germany
Centre Pompidou / Charlene Dinhut / France
CineDoc / Artchil Khetagouri / Georgia
Cinemalaya, QCinema and Cinema One Originals / Khavn De La Cruz / Philippines
Doc Corner, Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes / Pierre-Alexis Chevit / France
Hot Docs / Shane Smith / Canada
Kino Visegrad / Markéta Hodousková / France
Northern Lights Nordic Baltic Film Festival / Volia Chajkouskaya / Belarus
Tempo Documentary Festival / Melissa Lindgren / Sweden

Festival HUB 2017 presentations

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema / Agustín Masaedo / Argentina
Diagonale / Sebastian Höglinger / Austria
Festival of film and urbanism “86” / Illia Gladshtein / Ukraine
FidaDoc / Hicham Falah / Morocco
Flahertiana / Anastasia Alypova / Russia
Frames of Representation / Nico Marzano / UK
The Museum of Modern Art / Josh Siegel / USA
Venice International Film Critics' Week / Giona Nazzaro / Itály

Festival HUB 2016 presentations

Trieste Film Festival / Fabrizio Grosoli / Italy
4 Elements / Peter Gašparík / Slovakia
Taiwan IDF / Tsai Shr–tzung / Taiwan
Reykjavík International Film Festival / Hrönn Marinósdóttir / Iceland
Cannes – The Directors’ Fortnight / Laurence Reymond / France
Odessa International Film Festival / Julia Sinkevych / Ukraine
Moscow IDFF DOKer / Irina Shatalova / Russia
DOK.fest MÜNCHEN / Daniel Sponsel / Germany
Image Forum / Koyo Yamashita / Japan

Festival HUB 2015 presentations

Bergen IFF / Ingebjørg Aarhus Braseth / Norway
Berlinale Forum / Anna Hoffman / Germany
Busan IFF / Hyosook Hong / South Korea
Astra FF / Csilla Kato / Romania
Kino Otok – Isola Cinema IFF / Lorena Pavlič / Slovenia
IndieLisboa IIFF / Nuno Sena / Portugal
25 FPS Festival / Branka Valjin / Croatia
True/False Film Fest / David Wilson / USA

Festival HUB 2014 presentations

Mar del Plata / Cecilia Barrionuevo / Argentina
Torino Film Fest / Francesco Giai Via / Italy
Yamagata IDFF / Haruka Hama / Japan
Krakow Film Festival / Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła / Poland
Beldocs / Mladen Vušurović / Serbia
Cinéma du Réel / Maria Bonsanti / France
Docudays UA / Gennady Kofman / Ukraine
Open City Docs Fest / Michael Stewart / United Kingdom

Festival HUB 2013 presentations

Ambulante Documentary Film Festival / Elena Fortes / Mexico
Göteborg International Film Festival / Mikael Fellenius / Sweden
Planete+Doc Film Festival / Artur Liebhart / Poland
Sheffield Doc/Fest / Charlie Phillips / United Kingdom
DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival / Veton Nurkollari / Kosovo
Vancouver Biennale / Miriam Blume / Canada
Sarajevo Film Festival / Rada Sesic / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Artdocfest / Vitaly Mansky / Russia

Festival HUB 2012 presentations

International Film and Music Festival Kustendorf / Dunja Kusturica / Serbia
ZagrebDox Festival / Milena Zajović Milka / Croatia
Tampere International Short Film Festival / Jukka-Pekka Laakso / Finland
The American Documentary Film Festival / Teddy Grouya / USA
The goEast film festival / Gaby Babic / Germany
FID Marseille / Anaelle Bourguignon / France
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival / Özge Calafato / United Arab Emirates
Baghdad International Film Festival / Taher Alwan / Iraq