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.

DOK.guest Spain

The guest country series takes a look at Spain, our unknown neighbour in the southwest. In a total of five films, we experience surprising and illuminating interior views of Spanish society today, light and shadow sides of Spanish reality. This series is made possible by the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).

918 NIGHTS – 918 GAU (Spain 2021, Arantza Santesteban). A woman in jail – what actually happens there? A chronicle of identity and the power of interpretation.

#True Crime, #Sol Y Sombra, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

DOK.international Main Competition

Slices of life, insights and perspectives: The films of the International Competition open doors to new worlds for us. They compete for the VIKTOR DOK.international Main Competition, which is endowed with 10,000 euros. The prize sponsor is Bayerischer Rundfunk.

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

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

DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb

Intense stories and the unusual on one's own doorstep: the competition presents films that deal with people and topics in German-speaking countries. The VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Competition is endowed with 7,500 euros. The prize sponsor is Sky.

JOURNEY TO THE SUN (Portugal 2021, Ansgar Schaefer, Susana de Sousa Dias). From Austria to Portugal: former "Caritas children" tell of their period of recuperation in the South after 1945.

#Reality in Black&White, #For Cineastes, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency

The films in this series tell stories from countries in transition. They are supported by ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL with funds from the BMZ and are nominated for the VIKTOR DOK.horizonte Competition, endowed with 5,000 euros. The award donor is the Petra-Kelly-Stiftung.

ESPERARE AQUI HASTA OIR MI NOMBRE – I’LL WAIT UNTIL THEY CALL MY NAME (Peru 2021, Héctor Gálvez). The armed combat of the "Shining Path" in Peru: a theatre company fights for historical reappraisal

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #South America, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

Retrospective DOK.network Africa

To mark the 10th anniversary of DOK.network Africa, our retrospective is dedicated to documentary films from the African continent. Guest curators from east, west and south Africa present six outstanding films from the 1970s to the 2020s.

EL AÑO DEL DESCUBRIMIENTO (Spain, Switzerland 2020, Luis López Carrasco). The year 1992 should have been triumphant – but in Cartagena, protests erupt.

#Controversial: Let's discuss!, #Films with German Subtitles, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Sol Y Sombra

EL DESENCANTO (Spain 1976, Jaime Chávarri). A national poet, an enfant terrible, bizarre brothers and a beautiful mother: los Panero.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Sol Y Sombra, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

FRANCO ON TRIAL: THE SPANISH NUREMBERG (Germany, Spain 2018, Lucía Palacios, Dietmar Post). An international trial should finally provide justice for the crimes of the Franco dictatorship.

#South America, #Sol Y Sombra, #Films with German Subtitles, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #True Crime

FRANCO'S PROMISE – LA PROMESSE DE FRANCO (France, Spain 2014, Marc Weymuller). The new town of Belchite was supposed to symbolise heroic victory – it turned out to be a sham.

#True Crime, #Sol Y Sombra, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

MORIR EN MADRID (France, Spain 1963, Frédéric Rossif). The civil war and the dictatorship of the Franco regime. A chronicle of a Spanish tragedy.

#True Crime, #Sol Y Sombra, #Reality in Black&White, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

PICO REJA. LA VERDAD QUE LA TIERRA ESCONDE – PICO REJA. THE TRUTH BURIED BENEATH (Spain 2021, Remedios Malvárez, Arturo Andújar). A mass grave is opened in Seville: the civil war casts a shadow on the present day

#True Crime, #Sol Y Sombra, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

DOK.panorama

DOK.panorama shows innovative documentary films from all over the world mapping the diversity and current trends of documentary storytelling – including many new discoveries and premieres.

DAUGHTERS (Denmark, Sweden 2022, Jenifer Malmqvist). Three young sisters deal with the trauma of their beloved mother’s suicide.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Nominees DOK.edit, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Best Doks, #Award-winning Film

12