DOK.serie: Three series at DOK.fest München 2023
DOK.fest München is opening up to a format that is becoming increasingly important: documentary series. "The series format is also becoming increasingly interesting and relevant for documentary storytelling," say Daniel Sponsel and Adele Kohout (festival directors). "Viewers are increasingly offered the opportunity to see the world through the broader format of series. DOK.fest München is a festival that is interested in new developments, and we want to give our audience the opportunity to experience new top-class productions on the big screen."
At the festival in May, three series will be screened in several episodes each:
The Sky series JUAN CARLOS – LIEBE, GELD, VERRAT portrays former King Juan Carlos I. He was long a Spanish hero, celebrated around the world for reforming his homeland with his progressive and democratic values. He led Spain out of Franco's dictatorship into a parliamentary monarchy and made a decisive contribution to the transformation into a modern state. How could this universally revered monarch fall from grace so dramatically that he had to abdicate in 2014 and flee into exile in 2020? The producer of the four-part series is multiple Grimme Award winner Christian Beetz, directed by Anne von Petersdorff and Georg Tschurtschenthaler, and written by Christian Beetz, Pedro Barbadillo and Anne von Petersdorff.
KICKEN WIE EIN MÄDCHEN by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf follows four girls from the Ruhr region who share the dream of becoming professional footballers. The six-part series follows the U15 team of SGS Essen for one season - one of very few traditional women's clubs in Germany that stay in the Bundesliga without joining a men's club and focus on training young talent. For the protagonists, it is a decisive year – will they make the leap to the U16s, which is crucial for a professional career?
The Arte series CAPITAL B. WEM GEHÖRT BERLIN? by Florian Opitz tells the story of how, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has grown from a rather provincial metropolis into a global metropolis that today seems to be both a boomtown and ungovernable. Actors from mayors to clan members, from real estate sharks to squatters, from writers to club operators have their say. The series draws the viewers into the struggles and conflicts that have been fought out for thirty years over one question: Who owns the city?
