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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Tuesday, 28.05.2019
Wednesday, 29.05.2019
Thursday, 30.05.2019
Friday, 31.05.2019
Saturday, 01.06.2019
Sunday, 02.06.2019
Wednesday, 19.06.2019
Wednesday, 17.07.2019
Sunday, 28.07.2019
Thursday, 01.08.2019
Sunday, 04.08.2019
Sunday, 11.08.2019
Monday, 16.09.2019
Import Export

20.00 Uhr – Young & Real – Junger Dokumentarfilm im Import Export

EYE CANDY (Deutschland 2018, Katharina Kraft, DOK.aroundtheclock). Yasmin Lander is a wrestler. She enters the ring as the tomboy “Charlie Morgan” and fights for the fans’ respect. Would they still cheer for Charlie if she showed them her true self: young, fearless, unpredictable and… newly in love?
Wednesday, 18.09.2019
Monopol Kino

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest goes Mitt-DOKs

FFF Förderpreis Dokumentarfilm: CONGO CALLING (Deutschland 2019, Stephan Hilpert, DOK.aroundtheclock). What impact does development aid have on a country? And what does it do to those who help? A fascinating insight into the everyday life of three Europeans who want to offer their assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – and into their daily struggles with the bureaucracy of the African country.
Monday, 07.10.2019
Carl-Amery-Saal, Gasteig

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast bei Kino Europa

GODS OF MOLENBEEK – AATOS JA AMINE (Finnland, Belgien, Deutschland 2019, Reetta Huhtanen, DOK.aroundtheclock). Friends, Amine and Aatos, live in the same apartment block. Their world revolves around spiders, the search for god and, one day, terror, which changes everything in their district of Molenbeek. A contemporary childhood study that goes beyond clichés.
Sunday, 13.10.2019
Carl-Amery-Saal, Gasteig

18.00 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast bei den Afrikanischen Filmtagen

TALKING ABOUT TREES (Frankreich, Sudan, Deutschland, Tschad, Qatar 2019, Suhaib Gasmelbari, DOK.aroundtheclock). The Sudanese filmmakers Ibrahim, Manar, Suliman and Eltayeb want to re-open an outdoor cinema, the “Revolution Theatre” in Khartoum. With creativity, humour and a love of film the old men fight against power outages, the call of the Muezzin and the authorities.
Monday, 14.10.2019
Monopol Kino

18.30 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast beim Klimaherbst

AUTO ADÉ UND DER WAHRE PREIS DER ELEKTROAUTOS (Deutschland 2018, Julian Prahl Erik Hane, DOK.aroundtheclock). Do we have to ban combustion cars from our cities? And are electric cars really an environmentally friendly alternative? – Free entrance
Tuesday, 15.10.2019
Bellevue di Monaco

20.00 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast im Bellevue di Monaco

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.
Monday, 21.10.2019
Arena Filmtheater

18.30 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast beim Klimaherbst

BIKING ROOM: DAS FAHRRAD ALS LEBENSSTIL & PROTESTKULTUR AUF RÄDERN (Deutschland 2018, Janin Renner Janina Rook, DOK.aroundtheclock). Whether Berlin, London or Copenhagen: the inhabitants of numerous European metropolises have discovered the bicycle.
Thursday, 24.10.2019
Rio 2

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

Aktuelle Dokumentarfilme zu Politik und Gesellschaft
AGGREGAT – AGGREGATE (Deutschland 2017, Marie Wilke, DOK.aroundtheclock). AGGREGATE is not a story. The film is a collection of images, impressions and fragments of the political and media presence of German democracy.
Monday, 28.10.2019
Einstein 28

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast beim Klimaherbst

KESSELROLLEN – WIE ROLLT DIE STADT VON MORGEN? (Deutschland 2017, Fabian Bazlen, Roman Högerle Felix Länge, DOK.aroundtheclock). A film that emphasizes the importance of the bicycle for sustainable mobility and gives courage - also for Munich, where the burden of car traffic is as high as in Stuttgart.
Wednesday, 06.11.2019
Monopol Kino

19.00 Uhr – DOK.fest goes Mitt-DOKs

SEARCHING EVA (Deutschland 2019, Pia Hellenthal, DOK.aroundtheclock). Eva is a sex worker, model, writer, anarchist and femist. She shows off her life on the Internet in the most intimate way and above all wants to show one thing: No woman has to be pleasant.
Saturday, 09.11.2019
City 2

16.00 Uhr – INTERTANGO – A CONNECTION FOR LIFE

Munich Film Premiere and international tango night with Balasz Gyenis, Jean-Pierre Prinzie and Dele Tango DJ
INTERTANGO – INTERTANGO – A CONNECTION FOR LIFE (Argentinien, Italien, Deutschland, Russland, Pakistan 2019, Hanne Weyh, DOK.aroundtheclock). It is the first moment of touch, the breathless tension before what comes, the opening of a dialogue without words - it is tango. – Vorverkauf ab 15. August 2019
Monday, 18.11.2019
Import Export

20.00 Uhr – Young & Real – Junger Dokumentarfilm im Import Export

TIERE – ANIMALS (Deutschland 2019, Jonas Spriestersbach, DOK.aroundtheclock). Animals are our best friends, our status symbols – and also our food. How we treat animals says everything about our own desires and deepest yearnings. TIERE is a carefully composed series of episodes on the topic of humanity.
Thursday, 21.11.2019
Rio 2

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

Aktuelle Dokumentarfilme zu Politik und Gesellschaft
MONTAGS IN DRESDEN (Deutschland 2017, Sabine Michel, DOK.aroundtheclock). Three convinced Pegida fans of the first hour in the portrait: The film looks behind the slogans and asks for the personal motives.
Thursday, 28.11.2019
Bellevue di Monaco

20.00 Uhr – DOK.fest zu Gast im Bellevue di Monaco

STRONGER THAN FEARS (Deutschland 2019, Tobias Rehm, DOK.aroundtheclock). For four years the director Tobias Rehm followed the curators of the Munich film festival, KINO ASYL. A look behind the scenes with sensitive interviews with the team of refugees who carefully select and present films from their home countries.
Thursday, 23.01.2020
Rio 2

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

Aktuelle Dokumentarfilme zu Politik und Gesellschaft
#WIDERSTAND – #RESISTANCE (Deutschland 2018, Britta Schoening, DOK.aroundtheclock). Three young women in different places in Europe - three radically different searches for identity and belonging
Thursday, 20.02.2020
Rio 2

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

Aktuelle Dokumentarfilme zu Politik und Gesellschaft
PROJEKT A (Deutschland 2017, Marcel Seehuber Moritz Springer, DOK.aroundtheclock). 30 years after the collapse of real existing socialism, large parts of society question capitalism as a sustainable model of society.