The film programme of DOK.fest München. At the cinema. At home.

3 to 14 May 2023 at the Munich venues
8 to 21 May 2023 @home

As always, DOK.fest München opens the view out to the world: with 130 of the best and most current international documentaries from 55 countries. Our goal is the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas as well as to home screens throughout Germany: DOK.fest stays dual.

Please enter the festival edition you would like to find out more about a film in the year field.

DOK.international Main Competition

A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine 2022, Simon Lereng Wilmont). A children’s home in eastern Ukraine – and the question of how moments of hope can arise amid suffering.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #StandWithUkraine, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Europe, #Best Doks

EINE FRAU (Germany 2021, Jeanine Meerapfel). ​​“The experience of being uprooted has thousands of faces.” Malou. A woman’s fate.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #South America, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

FOUR JOURNEYS (Netherlands 2021, Louis Hothothot). Mother, father, child? The portrait of a Chinese family that defied the Revolution.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Asia

SOLDAT AHMET (Austria 2021, Jannis Lenz). Ahmet is strong and has everything under control. But how does he let go and show feelings?

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Nominees DOK.edit, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb

BERLIN BYTCH LOVE (Germany 2022, Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke). Two young people – and soon a baby. A love story on the streets of Berlin.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex

DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency

AFTER A REVOLUTION (Italy, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 2021, Giovanni Buccomino). Two siblings fight on opposing sides for the future of Libya, a land in a state of emergency.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Africa

CHILDREN OF THE MIST (Viet Nam 2021, Ha Le Diem). Facebook and bride kidnappings – girls’ dreams and traditions in the mountains of North Vietnam.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Award-winning Film, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Best Doks, #Asia

IF YOU ARE A MAN (Burkina Faso, France 2022, Simon Panay). ​​13-year-old Opio does dangerous work in a gold mine so that he can go to school.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Limited Films, #Africa

LEJOS DE CASA – FAR AWAY FROM HOME (Mexico 2022, Carlos Hernández Vázquez). In a shelter in Tijuana, children and young people dream of life in the USA.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #We are Family: Where do I belong?, #North and Central America, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

NO SIMPLE WAY HOME (Kenya, South Africa 2022, Akuol de Mabior). What is it like to call a country like South Sudan your home? The filmmaker traces her family’s past.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Best Doks, #Africa, #African Encounters: New African Narratives, #Award-winning Film

Student Award

AMONG US WOMEN – በኛ በሴቶች መካከል (Ethiopia, Germany 2021, Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun). Giving birth at home rather than in a hospital: Ethiopian obstetrics in transition.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Germany Documentary Film Music Award, #Africa

DONBAS DAYS (Germany, Ukraine 2021, Philipp Schaeffer). A gap year in Ukraine: a Czech circus performer teaches children to juggle.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #StandWithUkraine

HOAMWEH LUNG (Germany 2021, Felix Klee). Losing your homeland? Somewhere a horse dies. An expedition in black and white.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Reality in Black&White, #Award-winning Film, #Nominees Talent Award Documentary Film, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

SO ODER SO (Germany 2021, Lea Tama Springer, Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl). What happens when school ends? Four young people try to find their place in the world.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Europe, #Best Doks

TRACING TANGO ECHO TANGO (Germany 2022, Ksenia Ciuvaseva). A daughter searches for traces of her father, an ex-Soviet pilot, in Sudan.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Best Doks, #Africa

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