It's The Real Thing
';- Basel Documentary Platform 5
- Independent Festival
- 2026
‘It's The Real Thing – Basel Documenary Platform’ is the festival of documentary and propaganda arts. After a pandemic-related interruption, a conceptual break and many inquiries, the fifth edition is finally coming. It will take place from 25 to 29 March 2026 in Basel.
With:
Ahmed Milad Karimi - Opening Lecture / Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo. CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY Chapter 1 - The Bride or the Goodnight Cinderella / Cade/McCaskill - The Making of Pinnocchio / Rabih Mroué - Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your cane / Ali Cherri - Double Feature: The Watchman & The Dam / Diego Aramburo - Die Letzte Todestrafe Boliviens / Kenda Hameidan & Sebastina Nübling - To Be In A Time Of War / Aleksander Plotnikov - Alpha Centauri / Max Czollek - Lecture / Manuel Gerst - The Metamorphosis / Markus&Markus Kollektiv - Ibsen:Gespenser / Beatrice Fleischlin - My Ten Favorite Ways To Undress / exhibitions, lectures, panels
In collaboration with Kaserne Basel, ROXY Birsfelden, Museum Tinguely, SALTS und Hirscheneck.
- Artisitic director
- Boris Nikitin
- Production Manager
- Alexa Tepen
Supported by Swisslosfonds Basel-Stadt, Swisslosfonds Basel-Land, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Christian Merian Stiftung, Pro Helvetia, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung.
In collaboration with Kaserne Basel, ROXY Birsfelden, Museum Tinguely, SALTS und Hirscheneck.