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NEWS

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These are the award winning films of 2025!

Now online: Film talks to catch up on

Audience Award 2025 for WRITING HAWA

50,000 reference points from the FFA for competition films

VFF Documentary Film Production Award for Ulla Lehmann and Andrea Roggon

The nominees for the VIKTORIAs

Filmmaking in Exile – films about filmmaking far from home

DOK.edit Award goes to Timo Langer for A SUDDEN GLIMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS

The first all inclusive Award goes to PARTICE: THE MOVIE!

Cinema at its best! at the Deutsches Theater München

FRIENDLY FIRE opens the 40th DOK.fest München!

First DOK.fest Augsburg: we are expanding!

RASHID, L’ENFANT DE SINJAR wins Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

Shortlist of the DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit 2025

VIKTOR is now VIKTORIA

Six nominees for the DOK.edit Award 2025

Adele Kohout becomes new director of DOK.fest München

Fancy a festival atmosphere and nice colleagues? Become part of the team!

Seven films nominated for the all inclusive Award 2025

Mirjam Skal wins German Documentary Film Music Award with VRACHT

The shortlist of the VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2025

DOK.fest München turns 40: The anniversary edition from 7 May 2025

Shelter wanted for student filmmakers!

Wir sind ein Faires Festival!

Shortlist published for the best composition

Farewell after 40th DOK.fest München: Daniel Sponsel becomes President of HFF

DOK.education with the Schule des Sehens – application open!

Documentary films on TV, in media libraries and on other platforms

Cinema releases in spring 2025

F.A.M.E.: New Alliance Unites Film and Audiovisual Markets in Europe

Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Award 2024 goes to REPRODUKTION

DAS VERGÄNGLICHE SCHÖNE wins sponsorship award at Bavarian Schools Film Days

A look behind the camera: check out our film talks!

DOK.pod: Listen to our film talks as a podcast

Festival network DOC AROUND EUROPE launches VoD platform

Dok @home Selection: exceptional festival films in our online film library

54,000 visitors & numerous great guests: The review of the 39th DOK.fest München

Congratulations to all award winners of the 39th DOK.fest München!

Award ceremonies, premieres & guests: the best festival impressions of 2024

20 tolle Festivaltage sind am 20. Mai zu Ende gegangen – der Festival-Recap-Clip

A dialogue on decolonisation between Africa and Europe – A Panel Discussion

DOK.education celebrates young talent: the winners of the youth film competition

The awards of the industry platform DOK.forum were festively presented on 4 May

Students looking for answers: On Air, the festival audio channel of TH Nürnberg

Information about accessible films at DOK.fest München 2024

DOK.focus DEMOCRAZY series takes a look at the state of European democracies

Section 'Filmmaking in Exile' shows five works by filmmakers living in exile

Homage 2024 is dedicated to Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster

African Encounters at DOK.network Africa: THIS IS MY MOMENT – Decolonize now!

The festival programme of the industry platform DOK.forum

Educational platform DOK.education presents the 2024 festival programme

Interview with Uli Decker (ANIMA) on production and working conditions in film

Peace to the palaces, war to the huts?

Film festivals in times of Amazon & Co – the last bastion of film culture?

Filmfestival network DOC AROUND EUROPE

Enthusiasm unites: DOK.fest München Circle of Friends

The film programme 2025 in sections

All sections

Retrospective

Four films from four decades of DOK.fest München

”Never Again” Is Now?

Films about memory and resistance

Crossing Boundaries

Films about migration and its realities

Reframing History

Films exploring how the past shapes our present

Subdue the earth?

Films about the relationship between humans and nature

Empowered

Films about defiance and speaking out

This Is America

Films about a devided United States

In good company?

Films about life and living together

Coming-of-Age

Films about childhood and growing up

Brave New Work?

Films about the realities of work

Family Affairs

Films about how we love and fight

Stranger Than Fiction

Films between reality, archive, and essay

The Sound of Music

Films about musicians and their stories

About Art

Films on artists and their realities

Filmmaking in Exile

Films about filmmaking far from home

African Encounters

Films and talks about climate justice

DOK.serie

To be continued – Documentary, serialised

DOK.special

Films in cooperation with selected partners from art, culture and society

DOK.education

Films of Schule des Sehens for children, young people, families and schools

DOK.stories – Memories and greetings for the 40th anniversary

All DOK.stories

AG DOK Jubiläumsclip

Seit 40 Jahren bringt das DOK.fest den internationalen Dokumentarfilm nach München. Von den Anfängen erzählt der DOK.fest-Jubiläumsclip der AG Dok.

Jeanine Meerapfel, director

Denijen Pauljevic, Head of Kultur Bellevue di Monaco

Cyrielle Raingou, director

Dr. Hans-Georg Küppers, former Cultural Officer of the city of Munich

Peter Heller, co-founder of "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm"

Simone Baumann, Managing Director of German Films

Sara Rüster, Swedish Film Institute

Carmen Bayer, Pasinger Fabrik and former Managing Director of Deutsches Theater

Susi Schmid, Neues Rottmann cinema

Walter Greifenstein, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Uli Decker, director

Bernhard Blöchl, Culture editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung

Hadley Austin, director

Sabine Kastius, narrator for radio, television and documentary films

Nishtha Jain, director

Gesa Tiedemann, Petra-Kelly-Stiftung

Monika Sailer, long-standing festival visitor

Hermann Barth, former Director of DOK.fest München

Petra Lataster-Czisch und Peter Lataster, filmmakers

Bettina Reitz, President of HFF München

Peider Defilla, Managing Director of B.O.A. Videofilmkunst

Simone Stewens, formerly Bayerischer Rundfunk

Dr. Ferran Ferrando Melià, former Director of Inst. Cervantes Munich

Dijana Iljine, former director of Filmfest München

David Fischer, filmmaker

Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit

Mandisa Zitha, Director of Encounters festival

Veton Nurkollari, Artistic Director of Dokufest in Prizren

Peter Goedel, film producer

Marc-André Schmachtel, Goethe-Institut

Claude-Ann Savin, former Head of Press and Public Relations at arte

Isa Willinger, filmmaker

Michaela May, actress

Katrin Gebhardt-Seele, former DOK.fest co-worker

Dr. Andreas Rost, former Film officer in the Cultural Department of the City of Munich

Claas Danielsen, filmmaker and writer, former Director of DOK Leipzig

Fidelis Mager, film producer, former Manager at megaherz

Jörg Adolph, filmmaker, producer, editor

Claudia Engelhardt, Deputy Director of the Filmmuseum München

African Encounters 2025: LET'S TALK CLIMATE!

Student Award 2025: all films and projects

18.05.2025
11.00
MONK IN PIECES at Bergson

About Art – Films on Artists and their Realities
18.05.2025
11.30
KI and film – Workshop with Fritz Espenlaub
18.05.2025
14.00
Award ceremony – Documentary film competition for young people 2025
18.05.2025
18.00
DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

Award ceremony with film screening and reception
25.05.2025
07.00
Anniversary Exhibition - last chance!

40 YEARS DOK.fest MÜNCHEN: EYES WIDE OPEN

THE FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS

105
films
27
venues
12
festival days