The film programme of DOK.fest München. At the cinema. At home.

3 to 14 May 2023 at the Munich venues
8 to 21 May 2023 @home

As always, DOK.fest München opens the view out to the world: with 130 of the best and most current international documentaries from 55 countries. Our goal is the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas as well as to home screens throughout Germany: DOK.fest stays dual.

OUT OF PLACE (Germany 2019, Friederike Güssefeld, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). The future does not really look bright for three German adolescents who are classed as “incapable of being integrated.” As part of an educational project they are sent away to Romania, made to do physical work and confront their past and future.

#Nominees Talent Award of FFF Bayern, #Coming of Age

MANN AUF BLAU (Germany 2018, Friedrich Tiedtke, Student Award). Everything from the beginning. After completing his master's degree at the UdK Berlin, Henri Haake begins his quiet attempt to manoeuvre as a free artist from vernissage to vernissage. Sensitive character study of a seeker.

#The artist is present – art and artists, #Coming of Age

SCIENCE FAIR (United States 2018, Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, DOK.special). More than 1,700 young people from 78 countries compete against each other in the world’s biggest school science fair in Los Angeles. In their journey from the qualifying rounds to get here, they fight against all kinds of obstacles: rivalries and setbacks – and naturally their hormones.

#Coming of Age

KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND – KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND (Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, Netherlands 2018, Aboozar Amini, BEST OF FESTS). Under dusty skies, Abas drives his bus through Kabul. His rickety vehicle always needs fixing, money is scarce and the next hit of drugs is nigh. In sensitively composed images, KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND depicts life in Afghanistan beyond the clichés.

#Coming of Age

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