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.

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DOK.guest Spain

SEDIMENTOS (Spain 2021, Adrián Silvestre). Six trans women on a richly layered journey of exploration in the Castilian province.

#Celebrating Diversity: LGBTQIA*, #Sol Y Sombra, #Limited Films, #Films with German Subtitles

DOK.international Main Competition

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

DEAR MEMORIES – EINE REISE MIT DEM MAGNUM FOTOGRAFEN THOMAS HOEPKER (Germany, Switzerland 2021, Nahuel Lopez). An iconic photographer, a serious diagnosis and one last trip through the USA: Thomas Hoepker.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

EUROPA PASSAGE (Germany 2022, Andrei Schwartz). A group of Roma travels on the margins of society between Hamburg and their homeland of Romania.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older

ROTZLOCH – ICH ZWINGE DICH NICHT, MICH ZU UMARMEN (Switzerland 2022, Maja Tschumi). Stranded at the end of the world in Switzerland, young refugees long for love and connection.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex

SCHWARZARBEIT (Switzerland 2022, Ulrich Grossenbacher). On the road with Swiss labour inspectors – part investigative road movie, part thriller.

#True Crime, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Audio description, #Working World in Upheaval

UNTERM GLANZ (Germany, Poland 2021, Gregor Eppinger). Invisible, indispensable and unprotected: Lydia, a Polish housekeeper in Berlin.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Working World in Upheaval

ZUSAMMENLEBEN (Austria 2022, Thomas Fürhapter). A new beginning in Vienna. The start of a new life. Integration courses are designed to provide orientation.

#Moving on together: Films on Inclusion, #Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Award-winning Film, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency

KASH KASH (Germany, Lebanon, Qatar 2021, Lea Najjar). Pigeons over the roofs of Beirut – a game, a sport, a way of life: Kash Hamam!

#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Films with German Subtitles, #Best Doks, #Asia

Student Award

BLACK HOLE LEGION (Germany, Greenland 2021, Jonathan Omer Mizrahi, Ariel Sereni Brown). How do you overcome complex inter-generational trauma? Inuit teenagers seek recourse in cybergoth subculture.

#Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #In the Close-up: Nature & Climate Change, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

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

PUSHING BOUNDARIES (Switzerland 2021, Lesia Kordonets). Do you give up on your dreams when war begins? The Ukrainian Paralympic team doesn't!

#Moving on together: Films on Inclusion, #StandWithUkraine, #Award-winning Film, #Films with German Subtitles, #To the Limit: Sweat & Tears, #Best Doks

Retrospective DOK.network Africa

EL AÑO DEL DESCUBRIMIENTO (Spain, Switzerland 2020, Luis López Carrasco). The year 1992 should have been triumphant – but in Cartagena, protests erupt.

#Controversial: Let's discuss!, #Films with German Subtitles, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Sol Y Sombra

FRANCO ON TRIAL: THE SPANISH NUREMBERG (Germany, Spain 2018, Lucía Palacios, Dietmar Post). An international trial should finally provide justice for the crimes of the Franco dictatorship.

#South America, #Sol Y Sombra, #Films with German Subtitles, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #True Crime

DOK.panorama

DANCING PINA (Germany 2022, Florian Heinzen-Ziob). After the choreographer Pina Bausch’s death, her work lives on and makes intimate connections with its audiences.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Limited Films, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks, #Africa

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