DocsBarcelona is a global project based on the documentary. It includes a festival, professional market, distribution brand, exhibition network and courses for documentary filmmakers.

DocsBarcelona festival is specialized in the documentary genre comprised of international and national competition sections, non-competitive sections, and retrospectives. The Artistic Direction and programming committee select all of the documentaries that make up these sections.
The Festival consists of the following sections:
• Official Selection – Docs&Pearls: Competition that brings together feature documentaries selected from among the most recent national and international cinema productions.
• Docs&Cat: Non-competitive section that brings together a selection of the best documentaries produced in Catalonia.
• Docs&Teens: Competition dedicated to documentaries aimed at audiences between the ages of 12 and 18.
• DOC-U: Competition dedicated to short documentaries created by students ages 18 and over at universities, educational centers, and Spanish film schools.
• Docs&Focus: Non-competitive section that brings together a selection of documentaries that revolve around the same thematic axis that varies each edition of the Festival.
• Docs&Honor: Retrospective of a filmmaker awarded with the “Docs d'Honor” Award at each edition of the Festival.