EYES WIDE OPEN: All festival films of DOK.fest München

EYES WIDE OPEN

Over 100 current international documentaries will open up new perspectives on our world at DOK.fest Munich – from May 6 to 25, 2026.

Get an overview of the programme through our themed sections.
In each section, we present a signature film, accompanied by an in-depth FocusTalk.
You can find our programme arranged by day here: Festival calendar.
Here you can find our additional programmes.

We’re also presenting the films from our educational program, DOK.education.

You can buy your ticket directly on the respective film page.

 

Best of Fests
143 RUE DU DÉSERT – 143 SAHARA STREET (Algeria, France 2019, Hassen Ferhani). The desert is alive: a kiosk in the Sahara becomes a rest stop for modern nomads.
#DOK.network Africa, #Africa
AETHER (Italy, Turkey 2019, Rûken Tekeş). A filmed legacy of one of the oldest cultural landscapes in the world just before it disappears.
#Middle East, #For cinephiles
DER BÄR IN MIR – BEAR-LIKE (Switzerland 2019, Roman Droux). The untamed beauty of wild grizzly bears: A summer film diary
#Human Animal Machine, #North America, #Films with German subtitles, #DOK.4teens
FAT FRONT (Denmark, Norway, Sweden 2019, Louise Detlefsen, Louise Unmack Kjeldsen). All bodies are good bodies! Body positivity activists fight for a new body image.
#System critics and new visions, #Northern Europe, #A hero's journey
FRITSCHS PFUSCH – FRITSCH'S FLUB (Germany 2020, Lisa Wagner). Manic, wound up, chaotic – a production of “Pfusch” to mark the end of Frank Castorf’s Volksbühne.
#While stocks last, #The art of the hour
HOPE FROZEN (Thailand 2019, Pailin Wedel). Buddhism or high-tech science: is there life after death?
#What about religion?, #Human Animal Machine, #Only for a short time, #Asia
I LOVE YOU I MISS YOU I HOPE I SEE YOU BEFORE I DIE (Denmark 2019, Eva Marie Rødbro). Hope finds its way through the undergrowth of a front garden in western USA.
#North America, #Nominees DOK.fest Award SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit
IMMORTAL – SUREMATU (Estonia, Latvia 2019, Ksenia Okhapkina). Just another quick selfie with the bust of Putin: how children are raised to be young patriots.
#Looking back, #Caucasus, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, #For cinephiles
KOSHER BEACH (Israel, United States 2019, Karin Kainer). A discerning look at orthodox life – as colourful and lively as a day at the beach.
#What about religion?, #Middle East
LOVE CHILD (Denmark 2019, Eva Mulvad). A dead end or a new start – where does love lead to when you’re on the run?
#While stocks last, #Middle East, #Overcoming borders
MAIDEN (United Kingdom 2018, Alex Holmes). 12 courageous women and the most dangerous sailing regatta in the world = a victory for equal rights.
#A hero's journey, #Films with German subtitles
MIDNIGHT FAMILY (Mexico, United States 2019, Luke Lorentzen). Bribes, emergency hospitalisations and the race to the next accident: ambulance rides through Mexico City.
#System critics and new visions, #While stocks last, #Latin America
NÎPAWISTAMÂSOWIN: WE WILL STAND UP (Canada 2019, Tasha Hubbard). Crime and Punishment: After the murder of an indigenous young man his family fights for justice.
#System critics and new visions, #North America, #The Human Stain
SCHEME BIRDS (Scotland, Sweden 2019, Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin). Can you break with social patterns? Young Gemma shows us that you can.
#Nominees DOK.fest Award SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #A hero's journey
SHALOM ALLAH (Switzerland 2019, David Vogel). "I testify that there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet." In Switzerland, hundreds convert to Islam every year.
#What about religion?, #While stocks last
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