The film programme of the 40th DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

Presale starts on 24 April 2025.

 
 
 

Like every year, DOK.fest München 2025 opens up a view of the world: with 105 of the best and most current international documentaries from 58 countries.

For the 40th DOK.fest München, the former programme scheme is being dissolved. The festival films are divided into 16 thematically focussed sections based on current themes. 

Our aim is to ensure the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas and cultural venues as well as to home screens throughout Germany as barrier-free as possible: DOK.fest München stays dual!
SOMETHING BETTER TO COME (Denmark, Poland 2014, Hanna Polak, DOK.international Main Competition). A totally normal life, like most people take for granted, is a long way away for Yula. She lives in Europe’s biggest landfill site, a few kilometres from Moscow. The only thing left for her is hope for a better future. Far from social romanticism and without dwelling on misery, in poetic images the film tells a present-day fairytale of humanity in an inhumane world.
#SOS Nominees, #Eastern Europe, #Human Rights/Migration, #Coming-of-Age, #14jugendfrei
THE CIRCUS DYNASTY – Cirkusdynastiet (Denmark 2014, Anders Riis-Hansen, DOK.international Main Competition). Roll up, roll up for a tale of the circus! Merrylu Casselly and Patrick Berdino were a dream couple on stage and behind the scenes. Descended from two of the most famous circus families, they were the promise of a golden future. But does this love story have a happy ending? Atmospheric and highly emotional cinema!
#Love, #Dance/Theatre, #14jugendfrei, #SOS Nominees
THE QUEEN OF SILENCE (Germany, Poland 2014, Agnieszka Zwiefka, DOK.international Main Competition). Denisa is partially deaf and battles her way through the tough everyday life in a Roma community somewhere in Poland. The ten-year-old has never learned to talk, yet she loves to dance and to create her own colourful and bright musical world.
#Dance/Theatre, #SOS Nominees, #Eastern Europe, #Human Rights/Migration, #14jugendfrei
EL HOGAR AL REVÉS – UPSIDE DOWN HOME (Mexico 2014, Itzel Martínez del Cañizo, DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency). Over the course of a year, the filmmaker followed a group of young people in a modern working-class housing estate in Tijuana. The parents are absent; they work day and night to pay their debts. The children’s loneliness is the price they pay for the dream of having their own home.
#Latin America, #Human Rights/Migration, #14jugendfrei, #SOS Nominees
CORINNES GEHEIMNIS (Germany 2014, Maike Conway, Munich Premieres). Corinne is no totally normal teenager. Infected since birth with HIV, she cannot confide in anyone. A film about an adolescence marked by a conflict between confrontation and hiding oneself away.
#Identity/Life Crisis, #Coming-of-Age, #14jugendfrei, #SOS Nominees

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