FESTIVAL @HOME

The 35th DOK.fest München was a great success!
The resume of an unusual festival edition

14 highly endowed prizes have been awarded at DOK.fest München @home 2020
The winners of all festival award



Nine Theses

Nine theses of DOK.fest München on the future of cinema documentary film. Read more

New Festival Network

DOK.fest München (Munich, Germany), DocsBarcelona (Spain), MakeDox (Skopje, North Macedonia) and FIPADOC (Biarritz, France) are pleased to announce the creation of a network named FestDocsNetwork. Read more

Umfrage zum DOK.fest München @home

Was hat Ihnen gefallen, wo gab es Probleme? Geben Sie uns Ihr Feedback zur ersten Online-Edition! Zur Umfrage

Q&As @home

Here you can find the Q&As of the DOK.fest Munich @home.

Live film talks @home

Here you can find the live film talks of the DOK.fest Munich @home.

DOK.forum @home Live Events

For our registered industry guests, we make recordings of the public event and live videos of the DOK.forum Munich @home available for viewing here.

NEWS

Winner kinokino Audience Award – sponsored by BR and 3sat

THE EUPHORIA OF BEING by Réka Szabó wins the kinokino Audience Award 2020 Congratulations! We present you the final Top 10.

BEST DOKS

It's getting exciting: We present the jury shortlists of our competitions at DOK.fest München @home.

KONTAKTSPERRE – HAMBURG IM AUSNAHMEZUSTAND

Das Filmemacherduo Duo Timo Großpietsch und Christian von Brockhausen, die u.a. mit Könige der Welt beim DOK.fest München waren, legen jetzt einen sehr eindrucksvollen Film über den Corona-Ausnahmezustand vor. Beim NDR.de kostenfrei zu sehen!

Virtual press wall

The DOK.fest München @home in the media: We present the diverse contributions in print, radio and internet.

Schulklassenausflug zum Online-Filmfestival

Schicken Sie Ihre Schulklasse auf das Internationale Dokumentarfilmfestival München – mit einem Videoseminar inklusive Film und Unterricht.

In the mirror of memory: 75th anniversary of World War II

The opening film of the DOK.fest Munich @home THE EUPHORIA OF BEING about the Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi has touched many. A commentary by Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, on the importance of documentary films, such as the DOK.focus lasting memories series.

BREAKING NEWS: FestDocsNetwork

DOK.fest München (Munich, Germany), DocsBarcelona (Spain), MakeDox (Skopje, North Macedonia) and FIPADOC (Biarritz, France) are pleased to announce the creation of a network named FestDocsNetwork.

Opening Ceremony

The 35th DOK.fest Munich was ceremonially opened on 6 May. You can watch the ceremony here.

Greeting from the festival management

The online edition of the festival as a chance for cinema culture? Read the greeting from our festival management about DOK.fest München @home.

Limited availaility of certain films

Here you can find the limited availaility of certain films within the DOK.fest Munich @home.

DOK.shop

Here you can support our online edition and buy our beautiful posters and bags of this years festival.

Live-Events

Save the date! Filmmakers, protagonists and award winners as guests at the DOK.fest studio – we present the award ceremonies, events and live Q&As of DOK.fest München @home

Interactive film project on the Corona crisis

Filmmakers worldwide can submit their short films on the crisis to CORONOGRAPHY, a project from members of AG DOK and docfilmpool e.V.

Donations for partner cinemas

Here you can financially support the partner cinemas of DOK.fest Munich @home

Poster exhibition @home

A festival without film posters? Not with us. Welcome to the walk-in poster exhibition of DOK.fest München @home.

Winning film German Documentary Film Music Award

Klemens Bittmann, Christian Bakanic and Christofer Frank receive the German Documentary Film Music Award 2020 for their music for the film DIE LETZTEN ÖSTERREICHER, which is endowed with 5,000 euros.

DOK.focus lasting memories

The last generation of Zeitzeug.innen says goodbye forever. With our focus series DOK.focus lasting memories, we are sending a signal against forgetting

The juries of DOK.fest München @home

We are proud to present to you the top-class jurors who are daring to join us this year for the first online version of DOK.fest München.

Winning film DOK.fest award of SOS Children's Villages worldwide

We are pleased to announce COPPER NOTES OF A DREAM, the next winner of DOK.fest München @home. The film by Reza Farahmand receives the 3,000 Euro prize of SOS Children's Villages worldwide. The prize is donated by B.O.A. Videofilmkunst.

Winning film VFF Documentary Film Production Award

For the documentary film JENSEITS DES SICHTBAREN - HILMA AF KLINT, producers Eva Illmer and Halina Dyrschka receive this year's award, endowed with 7,500 Euros, which puts courageous and innovative production projects in the spotlight.

DOK.forum International Industry Events

Open exchange and new ideas are more important than ever for the documentary film industry. Our international DOK.forum events transcend closed borders and bring the European industry together.

Enthusiasm unites: DOK.fest München Circle of Friends

In times of crisis nothing is more important than solidarity and good networking. Become a member of the DOK.fest Munich Circle of Friends now!

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