A press release issued by Reed Midem says that "quality programming continued to be high on the agenda with current affairs and history/ancient civilisations riding high as the most popular themes." Held at the Martinez Hotel in Cannes, the market saw a total of 7449 screenings (9037 in 2002). MipDoc also recorded a drop in the number of participants to 473 (577 in 2002), in the number of buyers to 296 (335 buyers last year) from 39 countries. A selection of 1157 programmes were provided for screening by 159 distribution and production companies.

Amongst the genres that did well included: Current Affairs with 1,790 screenings, History & Civilisations (1,332), Science & Knowledge (920 screenings), Art Music Culture (854 screenings). The top most screened programmes were: Around the World wih Tippi by Rebel Media Ventures (Canada), CIA: Secret Wars by Capa (France), Holy Secrets: electing a Pope (AETN International) and Clone Story (US Independents).