The Film Programme of DOK.fest München. At the cinema. At home.

The 37th DOK.fest München came to an end on 22 May 2022, the first time it was shown in dual form:

04 to 15 May 2022 at the Munich venues
09 to 22 May 2022 @home

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Find here all films that were only screened at the cinema.

Homage Heidi Specogna

The gaze into the foreign life, the curiosity for the other perspective run through the cinematic work of the multiple award-winning Swiss filmmaker Heidi Specogna. The homage presents six films from four decades of her artistic work.

CAHIER AFRICAIN (Germany, Switzerland 2016, Heidi Specogna). Conflict in the Central African Republic – between hopeful reappraisal and renewed confrontation

#True Crime, #Films with German Subtitles, #Africa

CARTE BLANCHE (Germany, Switzerland 2011, Heidi Specogna). In the face of terror: the work of the International Criminal Court in The Hague

#True Crime, #Films with German Subtitles, #Africa

DAS KURZE LEBEN DES JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ (Germany, Switzerland 2006, Heidi Specogna). A green card soldier in the Iraq war: José Antonio Gutierrez died a hero, fighting for a foreign land.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #North and Central America, #Films with German Subtitles

DAS SCHIFF DES TORJÄGERS (Germany, Switzerland 2010, Heidi Specogna). The transport of child slaves in the 21st century? It happens – and the connections reach all the way to the Bundesliga.

#True Crime, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Africa

STAND UP MY BEAUTY (Germany, Switzerland 2021, Heidi Specogna). Female empowerment: a song for Ethiopian women who follow their own dreams.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Films with German Subtitles, #Africa

TUPAMAROS (Germany, Switzerland 1996, Heidi Specogna, Rainer Hoffmann). Happiness in focus: Uruguay’s guerillas dream of love and the fight for better times.

#South America, #Power of the People: Politics & Society