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

DOK.fest München stays dual!

Our aim is to make our films as accessible as possible, which is why we are bringing them to the big screen in Munich cinemas and venues - and for the first time also in selected cinemas and venues in Augsburg - as well as to home screens barrier-free throughout Germany.

Furthermore, there are some films that are shown exclusively in cinemas - please note the filter option: Only in cinemas.
Use the @home available filter option to access the films that you can watch from the comfort of your own home from 12 to 25 May. 

 
ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL (Germany, Italy 2018, Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi, DOK.international Main Competition). Half a million children lived in Iraqi Mossul during the three-year occupation by the "Islamic State". Some of them, severely traumatized, talk about life in the city, which now lies in ruins: yesterday and today. What will be tomorrow? A shocking document.
#Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Near and Middle East, #Human Stains
NIÑA SOLA – GIRL ALONE (Mexiko 2019, Javier Ávila, DOK.international Main Competition). 19 year-old Cintia is murdered. In search of answers and the perpetrator, her mother and sister reflect on their own experiences in violent relationships. A Mexican social study and an intimate and poetic crime film.
#Latin America, #Human Stains
DER KRIEG IN MIR – THE WAR IN ME (Germany, Switzerland 2019, Sebastian Heinzel, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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.
#Looking Back, #Human Stains
A THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME (Afghanistan 2018, Mani Sahra, DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency). Since adolescence Kathera has been abused by her father. Now she is pregnant with her fourth child and has dared to do the unthinkable and report him. The film accompanies the young Afghani woman in her fight for justice.
#Human Stains
SHOOTING – DISPAROS (Mexico 2018, Elpida Nikou Rodrigo Hernández, DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency). What can oppose violence? Images! As is shown by the young Mexican photographer, Jair Cabrera, whose work was honoured by the renowned Time Magazine. Cabrera was on the verge of success but then he had to leave his country for political reasons.
#Human Stains
IN MEINER HAUT – IN MY SKIN (Germany 2018, Anna-Sophia Richard, Student Award). Violence in a relationship is taboo. Our knee-jerk response – why doesn’t she just leave? – has a fatal catch: it puts blame on the victims as well. With her film, Anna-Sophia Richard changes perspective and offers only women’s point of view.
#Human Stains
LA DISGRÂCE – SCARS (France 2018, Didier Cros, DOK.panorama). The sight of a disfigured face, far from the established beauty ideals, is difficult to bear. The same goes for those afflicted. A revealing portrait of women and men whose fate it is to fall outside the norm.
#Human Stains
THE REMAINS – NACH DER ODYSSEE – THE REMAINS – AFTER THE ODYSSEY (Austria 2019, Nathalie Borgers, DOK.panorama). Thousands of refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Who recovers their bodies? Who takes care of the survivors? THE REMAINS sheds light on one particular aspect of the trauma that many refugees have to live through.
#Human Stains
THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC (Norway, United Kingdom 2018, Henry Singer, Rob Miller, DOK.panorama). The siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre are considered the most brutal war crimes since the Second World War. Is it possible to get justice for these atrocities? THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC goes behind the scenes of the trial of the century.
#Human Stains
CRAZY (Netherlands 1999, Heddy Honigmann, Retrospective DOK.network Africa). Music can evoke memories instantaneously. Familiar tunes help Dutch UN veterans from different generations to come to terms with their traumatic experiences in various war zones.
#Human Stains
BOY OF WAR (Czech Republic, Germany 2018, Cyprien Clement-Delmas, Igor Kosenko, DOK.special). 18-year old Artiom feels a calling: he must go into battle – for his “mother,” Ukraine. He will save her, he thinks. With childlike naivety he treks through forests and ruins, his gun at the ready playing war and practicing for war - until the harsh reality catches up with him.
#Human Stains
STRESS (Germany 2018, Florian Baron, DOK.special). In slow motion and accompanied by an oppressive collage of sound, the experience of five young veterans from the war in Afghanistan unfolds. Without showing any violence, Florian Baron gives us an intimate insight into the after-effects of the front line.
#North America, #Human Stains
ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS (Australia, Germany, United Kingdom 2018, Gabrielle Brady, Best of Fests). In a detention centre for asylum seekers on Christmas Island a social worker tries to help the refugees being held there. This aesthetically impressive film tells us about her work and everyday life in this idyllic non-place.
#Overcoming borders, #Human Stains
RECONSTRUCTING UTOYA (Denmark, Norway, Sweden 2018, Carl Javer, Best of Fests). The terrorist Anders Breivik killed 69 young people on 22nd July 2011 on Utoya. Six years later in an empty film studio, four survivors reconstruct their escape from the massacre. Intense, painful and evocative memories make for essential viewing.
#Coming of Age, #Human Stains
SHOOTING THE MAFIA (Ireland, United States 2019, Kim Longinotto, Best of Fests). Letizia Battaglia fights the mafia with her camera. She captures the crimes of the Cosa Nostra in aesthetic images that make the horrors visible. A touching portrait of a fearless Sicilian woman.
#Southern Europe, #Human Stains

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