All festival films of DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

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Here you find all festival films by festival edition. You can sort by thematic section, countries and keywords (nominations, with film talk, language versions etc.).

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DOK.international Main Competition
1970 (Poland 2021, Tomasz Wolski). 8 days of state terror in communist Poland in 1970 – a drama with puppets and telephone sets.
#Reality in Black&White, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine 2022, Simon Lereng Wilmont). A children’s home in eastern Ukraine – and the question of how moments of hope can arise amid suffering.
#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #StandWithUkraine, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Europe, #Best Doks
EINE FRAU (Germany 2021, Jeanine Meerapfel). ​​“The experience of being uprooted has thousands of faces.” Malou. A woman’s fate.
#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #South America, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe
FIRE OF LOVE (Canada, United States 2022, Sara Dosa). A scientist couple and the world’s volcanoes – a story of life and love.
#North and Central America, #Limited Films, #In the Close-up: Nature & Climate Change, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex
FOUR JOURNEYS (Netherlands 2021, Louis Hothothot). Mother, father, child? The portrait of a Chinese family that defied the Revolution.
#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Asia
GREEN JAIL – MIDORI NO ROUGOKU (France, Japan, Taiwan 2021, Yin-yu Huang). Memories from the island of the dead: the last witness of Iriomote’s coal mines.
#In the Close-up: Nature & Climate Change, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Asia, #Working World in Upheaval
HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND (France, Germany, Norway, Sweden 2022, Marusya Syroechkovskaya). One thing is clear: Marusya loves Kimi, Kimi loves Marusya. But then there are the drugs.
#Limited Films, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Best Doks
KAPR CODE (Czech Republic, Slovakia 2022, Lucie Králová). How can you transform the dissonance of life into the harmony of being? – Jan Kapr.
#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #For Cineastes, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past
NAWALNY (United States 2022, Daniel Roher). Nerve poison in the underwear – when the victim survives and confronts the assassin. A unique political thriller!
#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Controversial: Let's discuss!, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe, #Best Doks
RENÉ: THE PRISONER OF FREEDOM (Czech Republic 2021, Helena Třeštíková). How can a person live in freedom after years in prison?
#True Crime, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past
SOLDAT AHMET (Austria 2021, Jannis Lenz). Ahmet is strong and has everything under control. But how does he let go and show feelings?
#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Nominees DOK.edit, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe
TRENCHES (France 2021, Loup Bureau). A moving, atmospheric documentation of everyday life in the trenches of Donbas.
#StandWithUkraine, #Reality in Black&White, #Award-winning Film, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Limited Films, #Europe, #Best Doks
ULTRAVIOLETTE AND THE BLOOD-SPITTERS GANG (France 2021, Robin Hunzinger). Bittersweet Symphony. Emma and Marcelle: a life-changing love that is not allowed to be.
#Celebrating Diversity: LGBTQIA*, #Reality in Black&White, #Nominees DOK.edit, #Limited Films, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex

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