DOK.aroundtheclock – festival films all year round

DOK.aroundtheclock presents current documentary film highlights for each season. Whether at the weekly Mitt-Doks at the Monopol Kino or as a guest event with our partners from art, photography and music in Munich - we show documentaries on the big screen all year round.

Please note that all DOK.aroundtheclock screenings are released from the age of 18, unless otherwise stated.

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Wednesday, 26.02.2020
Tuesday, 17.03.2020
Bellevue di Monaco

20.00 Uhr – DOK.fest meets Bellevue di Monaco

SONITA – SONITA (Deutschland, Iran, Schweiz 2015, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, DOK.international). 18-year-old Afghan, Sonita, is a rapper. She lives “sans papiers” in Teheran and dreams of a future as a hip hop star. Yet her mother wants her to be married in Afghanistan and her bride price is supposed to pay for the wedding of her older brother. – OV with German sub., 6 Euro (recommended), 4 Euro (reduced), 0 Euro (social)
Wednesday, 18.03.2020
Monopol Kino

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest bei den Mitt-DOKs

DAS WUNDER VON TAIPEH (Deutschland 2019, John David Seidler, DOK.aroundtheclock). – Deutsche Originalfassung
Tuesday, 24.03.2020
Lenbachhaus

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest meets Lenbachhaus

DREAMS REWIRED – MOBILISIERUNG DER TRÄUME (Österreich, Deutschland, Großbritannien 2015, Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode, DOK.aroundtheclock). An industrial and digital revolution: radio, television and internet. We are overcoming time and space, optimising, synchronising. What remains of us when we standardise everything? Time travel through the electric modern, through visions and dystopias of the interconnected world. – Original with German subtitles / Free Admission
Wednesday, 25.03.2020
Theatiner Kino

20.30 Uhr – DOK.fest meets Kino der Kunst

THE CHALLENGE (Italien, Frankreich 2016, Yuri Ancarani, DOK.international). Falconry follows a centuries old tradition on the Arabian Peninsula. Only the wealth that comes from the oil in the desert state of Qatar is changing everything. This film celebrates a modern decadent life with the birds of prey and the desert in powerful cinematic images. – Original with english subtitles
Thursday, 26.03.2020
Rio 2

18.00 Uhr – DOK.fest meets VHS: Hier & Jetzt – Widerstand und Alltag

Contemporary documentary films about politics and society
WENN WIR ERST TANZEN – ONCE WE ARE DANCING (Deutschland 2018, Dirk Heth, Olaf Winkler, Dirk Lienig, DOK.deutsch). The town of Hoyerswerda is emblematic of the demise of the GDR. Everything that this town represented was swallowed up by the fall of communism. The people were left without any market worth. A citizens’ dance project helps them to live with the shame. A sensually choreographed, empathetic film. – OV with German sub. / Free Admission. Please use online registration!
Friday, 27.03.2020
Neues Maxim

18.30 Uhr – Cinema For Future

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH (Kanada 2018, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas De Pencier, DOK.focus humaNature). Every year up to 100 billion tonnes of material is removed from the earth. Three quarters of the areas of our planet that are not covered in ice are cultivated or inhabited by people. In powerful images the filmmakers document the dominance of humans over our planet. – Original version: Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, English, German – Subtitles: English
Wednesday, 22.04.2020
Monopol Kino

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest bei den Mitt-DOKs

DER KRIEG IN MIR – THE WAR IN ME (Deutschland, Schweiz 2019, Sebastian Heinzel, DOK.deutsch). Can our parents and grandparents’ traumatic experiences influence our behaviour? Could they be inscribed in our DNA? Nightmares about war lead the director on a journey into his family’s past. – Deutsche Originalfassung – Untertitel: Englisch
Thursday, 28.05.2020
Rio 2

18.00 Uhr – DOK.fest München meets VHS: Hier & Jetzt – Widerstand und Alltag

Aktuelle Dokumentarfilme zu Politik und Gesellschaft
MISSION LIFELINE (Deutschland 2018, Markus Weinberg, DOK.aroundtheclock). The sixth mission of the Dresden rescue boat, Lifeline, made history. For two years, Markus Weinberg accompanied Mission Lifeline on their operations. A film about the madness of criminalising people who save lives. – Originalfassung: Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch – Untertitel: Englisch