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.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.

EUROPA PASSAGE (Germany 2022, Andrei Schwartz). A group of Roma travels on the margins of society between Hamburg and their homeland of Romania.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older

ROTZLOCH – ICH ZWINGE DICH NICHT, MICH ZU UMARMEN (Switzerland 2022, Maja Tschumi). Stranded at the end of the world in Switzerland, young refugees long for love and connection.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #A Question of Desire: Love & Sex

UNTERM GLANZ (Germany, Poland 2021, Gregor Eppinger). Invisible, indispensable and unprotected: Lydia, a Polish housekeeper in Berlin.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Working World in Upheaval

ZUSAMMENLEBEN (Austria 2022, Thomas Fürhapter). A new beginning in Vienna. The start of a new life. Integration courses are designed to provide orientation.

#Moving on together: Films on Inclusion, #Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Award-winning Film, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

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.

BATATA (Canada, Lebanon 2021, Noura Kevorkian). Maria plants potatoes. When dreams fade and life as a refugee becomes everyday life.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Asia

LEJOS DE CASA – FAR AWAY FROM HOME (Mexico 2022, Carlos Hernández Vázquez). In a shelter in Tijuana, children and young people dream of life in the USA.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #We are Family: Where do I belong?, #North and Central America, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

MIDWIVES (Canada, Germany, Myanmar 2022, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing). Survival on your own terms in the midst of ethnic conflicts? For Hla and Nyo Nyo this is a daily challenge…

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Asia

BEST OF FESTS

Innovative cinema and intimate insights: The BEST OF FESTS series brings together films that have already been screened at other important festivals and celebrated or awarded prizes there.

LO QUE QUEDA EN EL CAMINO – WHAT REMAINS ON THE WAY (Brazil, Germany, Mexico 2021, Jakob Krese, Danilo Do Carmo). The journey from Guatemala to the USA: salvation from violence at home?

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #We are Family: Where do I belong?, #North and Central America, #Films with German Subtitles

REPUBLIC OF SILENCE (France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic 2021, Diana El Jeiroudi). A radically personal film essay about the collapse of Syria and life in exile.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Asia

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.

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

DOK.education

The educational programme of DOK.fest München considers itself a "school of seeing", which combines media literacy and cultural education. It is aimed at children, young people, families and schools.

SEEPFERDCHEN (Germany 2020, Nele Dehnenkamp). Fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea, Hanan was terrified of the water. Today she is teaching her brother to swim.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Moving on together: Films on Inclusion, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Europe, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older

DOK.network Africa

Exchange at eye level. The festival's focus on Africa promotes the perception and representation of the African continent beyond short-lived headlines and stereotypes.