Film literacy programme DOK.education
"I am very happy that in a culturally yet very rich city such as Munich, we have succeeded with DOK.education in making the artistically narrative documentary film as an art and cultural treasure so well known in schools that every year, a good 3,000 students from the city and around come to our cinemas to see the films and analyse them together."
Maya Reichert, head of DOK.education
DOK.education is the year-round educational programme of Germany's largest documentary film festival DOK.fest München. DOK.education's 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.
Beside the work in film reception, film practice, training for teachers, presence workshops for school classes and an annual youth film competition, the heart of this programme is the "Schule des Sehens" which helds a good 50 school class workshops for three age groups in the cinema. Through the initiatives of DOK.education with numerous cultural providers, TV institutions and schools, project manager Maya Reichert has built up a large qualitative network in which the artistically narrative documentary film is always at the centre.
All projects of DOK.education combine media literacy and cultural education: Artistic documentaries tell real stories through cinematic images. They offer a wide range of approaches to encourage children and young people to observe closely, to see the art in filmmaking and to raise their awareness for different levels of truth and reality in cinematic storytelling.
Since March 2020 DOK.education reaches out with an online version of the programme. The team developed – based on their longtime experience in film mediation – three one-hour online seminars within a flipped classroom model to replace the regular attendance seminars during the coronabased homeschooling situation. Pupils watch the curated films and learn in the moderated part how documentary films are made and how they work through film language and the reception of the spectators. Accompanying school materials for the film seminar gives teachers the opportunity to follow up in the classroom or via homework. The online version in May 2021 was a huge success: over 350 teachers requested the seminar for their classes, and by the end of the festival in May more than 4,000 pupils had seen it.
As part of the DOK.fest online edition, DOK.education has gained further online experiences with an online camera workshop for young people, two zoom teacher training courses and our online video seminars for school classes at home. The extremely positive feedback from teachers and pupils makes it clear to us that our online seminars were recognized as high-quality education and very popular.
We will keep you up to date here which DOK.education programmes are part of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival and which take place all year round. Detailed information about DOK.education can only be provided in German at the moment.
Take a look at the DOK.education 2021 programme booklet.
Festivalprogramme May 2022
ONLINE: Schule des Sehens 2022
Filmliteracy and education in three online cinema halls: We invite School classes to visit the festival online.
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CINEMA: Schule des Sehens 2022
Heading back to the cinema! We invite School classes to the cinema as a place of learning.
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Accompanying material & training
Accompanying material for schools and teacher training courses enable age-appropriate follow-up to the films.
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Awards ceremony – documentary film competition for young people 2022
A warm invitation to the awards ceremony: winning films, prizes donated by BLLV and interviews with the young filmmakers.
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documentary film competition for young people
For our film competition for young people in Bavaria, we are looking for short cinematic narratives about life. Extended deadline until April 5th! Read more
DOK.4teens: documentaries from 14
The best films of DOK.fest Munich for young people aged 14 and up. We are curating an exciting program for you. read more
Kinderkino at HP8, Gasteig
MAXIM – DER GRÖSSTE at Kinderkino München – Film screening and film talk for children and families. Read more in German
Workshop: Working with the camera
During the festival, cameraman Martin Noweck (Medienzentrum München) will introduce young people to working with a film camera.
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Workshop with Julian Janssen: In front of the camera
How to act in front of the camera? Learn fron the professional "Checker Julian" – and ask your questions personally.
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Premiere: TANZ IM MUSEUM
Dancing like Beyoncé inside the museum? A music video premiere with young people, in cooperation with the Kreisjugendring München-Stadt. read more
Exhibition: TRIFF DEIN VORURTEIL
With the exhibition, in cooperation with the Münchner Stadtbibliothek, young people deal with prejudice and challenge the audience to become active themselves. read more
Fachbesucher-Zugang für Lehrkräfte
Für Lehrkräfte, die an unseren Programmen teilnehmen oder eine Filmlehrerausbildung haben, bietet DOK.education einen Branchenzugang an. Weiterlesen
Year-round educational programme
#DOKfilmklasse – Mittelschule filmt!
Creative filmmaking with smartphone and camera in the project Mittelschule filmt! at the Clermond-Ferrand Middle School Regensburg. Read more in German
Filmplatform for schools
Understanding the history of Europe through documentaries: DOK.education launches a new form of learning for young people. Read more
Award of prize – School filmfestival AUFBLENDE
Cooperation and award foundation at the German wide School filmfestival AUFBLENDE 2022: DOK.education congratulates the winner Laura Kennemann (Anita-Augspurg Berufsoberschule München) for her documentary QUEER. more
Online workshop for young people: Documentary Storytelling
A film is always as interesting as the story it tells. DOK.education offers an online workshop on 04 December 2021 for all young people who want to make their own film. Read more
Middle school films!
Film-artistic work with smartphone and camera in the model project Middle school films! at the Clermond-Ferrand Middle School Regensburg. Read more
Schule des Sehens invited at the International Film Weekend Würzburg
In cooperation with the International Film Weekend Würzburg, DOK.education offers one-hour film education video seminars for primary and lower/middle school. More soon. Read more in German
Information
About DOK.education
Learn more about DOK.education's goals and expertise. Read our Preamble for the Documentary Film School in English and more about our expertise, our partners and sponsors or our team in German
Tips and Additional Links
You would like to learn more about filmmaking or try it yourself? Here is a list of other helpful websites.
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Statement Of The Patron
Anton Biebl, Cultural Advisor of the City of Munich, on the DOK.education 2022 educational programme.
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DOK.education Bavaria-wide
We cooperate with the ZWICKL in Schwandorf: Anne Schleicher and her team – thanks to the sponsors there – bring the documentary film school of DOK.education into the country.
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Contact and Newsletter Registration
Maya Reichert / Mail: reichert@dokfest-muenchen.de / Phone: 00 49 177 629 26 29
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