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.

Please enter the festival edition you would like to find out more about a film in the year field.

WHITE MAMA (Russian Federation 2018, Zosya Rodkevich, Evgeniya Ostanina, DOK.guest Canada). On the outskirts of Moscow, a mother lives with her six children and her new husband. They decide to adopt a seventh child, a boy with mental health problems and the harmony in the family comes under threat.

#Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

BRUCE LEE & THE OUTLAW (Czech Republic, Netherlands, United Kingdom 2018, Joost Vandebrug, DOK.international Main Competition). Nicu, a young homeless kid, lives in the tunnels under Bucharest with the criminal known as Bruce Lee, the king of the underworld. The home that Bruce offers is supposedly safe, but when Nicu becomes seriously ill, everything suddenly changes and the youngster gets a chance at a different life.

#Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Caucasus, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

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

BEFORE FATHER GETS BACK – SANAM MAMA DABRUNDEBA (France, Georgia, Germany 2018, Mari Gulbiani, DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency). Teenagers Iman and Eva take part in a film course at their school in a small Georgian village and document their everyday life. Meanwhile their father is far away in Syria fighting for the Islamic State. Radical transformations captured in calm sequences.

#Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Asia

YOU ARE MY FRIEND – JIJ BENT MIJN VRIEND (Netherlands 2018, Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster, DOK.panorama). Branche and Ayham make friends in a class for new arrivals. But, when Ayham suddenly leaves, young Branche is devastated. Will he find another friend? One day Branche also has to go: now he can attend a normal primary school class.

#Overcoming borders, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

EASY LESSONS – KÖNNYU LECKÉK (Hungary 2018, Dorottya Zurbó, BEST OF FESTS). 17-year-old Kafia has fled Somalia and is stranded in Hungary. There she tries to take control of her life and adapt to the rules of a new culture without losing her identity. But it is anything but easy.

#Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Overcoming borders, #DOK.4teens

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