Film literacy programme DOK.education
DOK.education is the year-round educational programme of Germany's largest documentary film festival DOK.fest München. The DOK.education offer is aimed at school classes and teachers as well as interested young people and families, all year round and during the festival in May.
In addition to work in film reception, film practice, teacher training, face-to-face workshops for school classes and an annual youth film competition. The heart of this programme is the Schule des Sehens (School of Seeing), which runs around 50 school class workshops for three age groups in the cinema. Through DOK.education's initiatives with numerous cultural institutions, TV institutions and schools, project director Maya Reichert has built up a large qualitative network in which the artistic narrative documentary film is always at the center.
All DOK.education projects combine media literacy and cultural education: artistic documentaries tell real stories in cinematic images. They offer a variety of approaches to encourage children and young people to look closely, to recognize the art of filmmaking, and to raise their awareness of different levels of truth and reality in cinematic storytelling.
Learning to read film is a skill that is more important than ever these days. Our film educators show how the creative stylistic devices of film affect us and trigger emotions. Our centerpiece is the Schule des Sehens, a film education project for school classes in Munich and sourrounding areas and in the online version for schools throughout Germany. You can find the full range of our services here on our website.
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Our programme is mostly held in German language. For any questions, please contact us.
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Year-round educational programme
Documentary film competition
Tell your story on the subject of LIFE! Apply with you film for the documentary film award for young people 2026.
Documentary filmworkshops
DOK.education offers workshops for young people who want to make their own short documentary film.
Inclusive Workshop
In this inclusive documentary film workshop, young people with and without disabilities portray their favorite cultural locations in Munich.
HISTORY-AWARD 2026
HISTORY Channel is organizing a video competition on the topic “Be human!”. Students can submit their works until March 2026 and win prizes at the 41st DOK.fest.
Film literacy
Lifelong learning at the MVHS: In this film literacy event we take a look behind the scenes of a short documentary film.
Nextus
DOK.education is part of the European film platform Nextus – learning by documentaries. Use documentary film in the classroom!
Fortbildungen für Lehrkräfte
Our certificated teacher training courses transmit film literacy and practice to work with documentary film in school.
Fachtag Doppelstunde Film
How can film education and media literacy be integrated into schools with a double lesson? The “Runde Tisch Film und Schule” invites you to the 2025 Fachtag Doppelstunde Film.
Interviews with film teachers
We asked film teachers in Bavaria how practical film projects succeed at school and what added value they have.
Project day with film talk
We organize the cultural educational excursion of your school classes – with socially relevant and artistically valuable documentaries in a cinema in Munich.
Accompanying material for cinema documentary films
DOK.education offers school accompanying material for current documentary films. Read more in German
Film making in school
DOK.education supervises documentary film projects by school classes and film groups all year round in Munich.
Information
Partners and sponsors
Thanks to the partners and sponsors of DOK.education the year-round educational program is possible
Contact
Kathi Seemann, seemann@dokfest-muenchen.de
Mona Klöckner, kloeckner@dokfest-muenchen.de
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