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.

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DOK.international Main Competition

BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG (Germany 2023, Lia Erbal). ​​Umbrella protests in Hong Kong: we hear the voices of people caught between hope for change and brutal repression

#World premiere, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Asia

PARADISE (France, Switzerland 2022, Alexander Abaturov). Forest fires envelop Eastern Siberia – the population defends itself against the inferno.

#Only in the cinema, #In the Close-up: Evironment, Nature & Climate Change, #German premiere, #Asia

DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency

ALONE (Iran 2022, Jafar Najafi). Amir’s lonely struggle to save his sisters from the shackles of patriarchy.

#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #German premiere, #Asia

BAGHDAD ON FIRE (Iraq, Norway 2023, Karrar Al-Azzawi). “Nobody is the leader in this youth revolution!” – Tiba fights for a free Iraq.

#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #War and its consequences, #German premiere, #Asia

ETILAAT ROZ – Eröffnungsfilm – THE ETILAAT ROZ (Afghanistan 2022, Abbas Rezaie). Kabul's downfall in august 2021 – a dramatic chamber play in the editorial offices of the newspaper Etilaat Roz.

#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Controverse medialities, #German premiere, #Asia

Student Award

GOOD LIFE DEAL (Austria 2022, Samira Ghahremani). Finding your home is a life’s quest. Gerhard from Vienna has it all sorted out. Really...?

#Online, #In relation (to), #Asia

DOK.guest Turkey

EREN (Germany 2023, Maria Binder). Eren Keskin – a lawyer who fights for the rights of women and minorities in Turkey.

#At home on two continents, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Only in the cinema, #Europe, #German premiere, #Asia

SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM (Norway 2021, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen). “Islam needs a sexual revolution!” – the controversial struggle of a Berlin imam.

#At home on two continents, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Europe, #Asia

THE DECREE – KANUN HÜKMÜ (Turkey 2023, Nejla Demirci). Silenced by decree: the exhausting battle against arbitrary dismissals in Turkey.

#World premiere, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Europe, #At home on two continents, #Asia

DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?

5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION (Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic 2023, Lina N.N.). Lina films 10 years of Syrian civil war. Journalism as a means of non-violent resistance.

#Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities, #German premiere, #Asia

BEST OF FESTS

BLUE ID (Turkey 2022, Burcu Melekoğlu, Vuslat Karan). Blue, pink, purple? Rüzgar fights for recognition and against transphobia in his home country.

#Online, #Young perspectives – Coming of age, #German premiere, #Asia

INNOCENCE (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Israel 2022, Guy Davidi). Those who love their country, defend it. How young Israelis endure militarisation.

#Online, #Limited films, #Asia

NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV (Korea (Republic), United States 2023, Amanda Kim). A cosmopolitan visionary and video pioneer. A life dedicated to art, through art.

#Picture the picture: films, videos, photographies & paintings, #Only in the cinema, #Asia

SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN (France, Germany 2023, Steffi Niederzoll). “I’m telling the tale that I lived.” Reyhaneh had to die young. Her fate represents a tipping point in society.

#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Only in the cinema, #Asia

DOK.special

STIMMEN AUF DEM DACH DER WELT (Germany 2019, Felix Möller, Patrick Ranz). High altitude music lessons between Sichuan and Eastern Tibet. A film like a fortune cookie.

#World premiere, #The Art of Living: Music, #Online, #Asia

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