Launched in 2004, DokMa is an annual documentary film festival that aims to present and promote a documentary film genre. The Festival endeavours to foster international and inter-regional networking, offering workshops and lectures by invited documentary film makers and other guests. In 2006 the festival hosted 30 guests from the Netherlands, Denmark, Montenegro, Croatia, Argentina, Austria, France, Ukraine, Iran, India and Slovenia. The Festival comprises four categories: Main Programme, InterRegional Retrospective, and the two competitive categories, Great Documentaries and Parallels. The Festival accepts applications for InterRegional Retrospective and Parallels. In 2006 the best film of DokMa was Nemam ti šta reći lijepo ('I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You') by Croatian author Goran Dević. In 2007 also the two films by Slovene authors - Polona Sepe and a student Kaja Tokuhisa - got awarded.

The Festival is organised by the Association for Transformation of Social Communication (PIFF). It also tries to open up suitable spaces for the screenings in the city of Maribor. Thus in 2006 most screenings took place at Kino Udarnik Maribor, Narodni dom Cinema Club and First Stage, while additional ones, special events and after-show parties take place at Gustaf Hall, Ciproš Antique Bookshop and Garage for Art Photography (gUF), Pekarna. In 2007 screenings took place at Kino Udarnik and Kino Partisan, the old cinema hall in the city center, which was closed some time ago. DokMa Radio is broadcast live from the festival's main venue Kino Udarnik in co-operation with Mariborski radio Študent (MARŠ), Radio Študent (RŠ) and Radio Ivan. The Dokma radio crew prepare interviews with participating authors, guests, visitors and jury members.