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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NACH DER ARBEIT (Germany 2021, Alexander Riedel). No work, no appointments, no responsibilities. Life after retirement shock.

#Europe, #Working World in Upheaval

PORNFLUENCER (Germany 2022, Joscha Bongard). If you’re well-behaved, nothing happens. Jamie & Nico make a fortune through amateur porn.

#Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Controversial: Let's discuss!, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex, #Best Doks, #Working World in Upheaval

THE HAPPY WORKER (Finland 2022, John Webster). The modern workplace is making us ill: how do we escape this misery?

#Working World in Upheaval, #Europe, #Best Doks

Munich Premieres

A SOUND OF MY OWN (Germany 2021, Rebecca Zehr). Walking a fine line between legacy and reinvention, Marja leads the legendary Krautrock collective Embryo.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Nominees Talent Award Documentary Film, #Nominees Germany Documentary Film Music Award, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

ALPENLAND (Austria 2022, Robert Schabus). For worshipping or for sale? The Alps as an ambivalent microcosm of western lifestyles.

#In the Close-up: Nature & Climate Change, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS (Germany 2022, Uli Decker). Who is my father? A tragicomic rollercoaster ride through a family history in Upper Bavaria.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Celebrating Diversity: LGBTQIA*, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe, #Best Doks

JONAS DEICHMANN – DAS LIMIT BIN NUR ICH (Germany 2022, Markus Weinberg, Steffi Rostoski). An extreme athlete eyes up a new world record: a triathlon around the globe. – This film is available in our online film library DOK.fest @home Selection: www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Selection

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #To the Limit: Sweat & Tears

NACH DEM HAPPY END (Germany 2021, Katharina Köster). When it’s easier to fight than just to live. Tobi has a heart transplant.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Nominees Talent Award Documentary Film, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Europe, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older, #Best Doks

SOMMERFAHRT – ZEIT HEILT KEINE WUNDEN (Germany 2022, Gereon Wetzel). 30 years on: an exploration of the dark underbelly of a seemingly perfect scouting world.

#Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

DOK.music

LE MALI 70 (Germany 2022, Markus CM Schmidt). The Berlin band Omniversal Earkestra meets jazz legends from Mali: an Afro big band road movie

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe, #Best Doks, #Africa

REWIND & PLAY (France, Germany 2022, Alain Gomis). Jazz musician Thelonious Monk is confronted with stereotypes during a TV recording in Paris in 1969.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe

THE KAISER OF ATLANTIS (Argentina, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Spain 2022, Sebastián Alfie). Music from hell – blisteringly relevant today. A provocative chamber opera from Theresienstadt.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

UNSERE HERZEN – EIN KLANG (Germany 2021, Simone Dobmeier, Torsten Striegnitz). ​​Choirmasters make music with voices. An ode to conductor-led polyphony.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

DOK.special

GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT (Germany 2022, Hans von Brockhausen, Max Weishaupt). When giving up is not an option: how club culture in Munich survived the pandemic.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe

LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD – LOVE, DEUTSCHMARK AND DEATH (Germany 2022, Cem Kaya). The Turkish guest workers brought their music with them to Germany. A hidden treasure!

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Award-winning Film, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

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