About Silverdocs

7 days
The best documentaries from every corner of the globe
14 Academy Award nominated films
25,000 festival attendees

Silverdocs is a seven day internationally renowned film festival that celebrates independent thinking and generates global media attention. Silverdocs supports the diverse voices and free expression of independent storytellers and fosters the power of documentary to enhance our understanding of the world. Anchored in the National Capital Region, where important global and national issues are the daily business, Silverdocs is marked by its relevance, broad intellectual range, and wide public appeal.

Silverdocs was created through a unique alliance between AFI and the Discovery Channel, the festival’s Founding Sponsor.

Silverdocs takes place in and around downtown Silver Spring, Maryland at the AFI Silver Theatre, the flagship theatre of the AFI, one of the premier film exhibition spaces in the country, and the top art house cinema in the region, and at Discovery Communications World Headquarters.