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.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.

HYPERMOON (Sweden 2023, Mia Engberg). Between the hospital and the universe: an intimate film essay about the fragility of existence.

#Online, #In relation (to), #Europe, #German premiere, #Picture the picture: films, videos, photographies & paintings

MAGIC MOUNTAIN – JADOSNURI MTA (Georgia, Poland 2023, Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt). On the edge of the world, on the edge of time: a tuberculosis clinic high in the Georgian mountains.

#World premiere, #Online, #For cineasts, #Europe

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.

AUF DER KIPPE (Germany 2023, Britt Beyer). Lusatia, the former centre of brown coal mining in the GDR, goes from one upheaval to the next.

#World premiere, #Online, #In the Close-up: Evironment, Nature & Climate Change, #Films with subtitles for people with hearing impairments, #Europe

EINZELTÄTER TEIL 1: MÜNCHEN (Germany 2023, Julian Vogel). The 2016 racist attack at Munich’s Olympia Shopping Centre changes the lives of the bereaved forever.

#World premiere, #Online, #Europe

FRAUEN IN LANDSCHAFTEN (Germany 2023, Sabine Michel). Petry, Schwesig, Magwas and Domscheit-Berg: four female politicians with their roots in the east on the reunification of Germany and the role of women.

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

GRETAS GEBURT – GRETA'S BIRTH (Germany 2023, Katja Baumgarten). A child has died. The midwife is on trial. 59 days of hearings. Then the verdict.

#Award-winning films, #World premiere, #Online, #Europe

JONNY ISLAND (Germany 2023, Petra Mäussnest). How serious are we about inclusion? A teacher struggles to participate in society.

#World premiere, #Online, #Europe

WIR WAREN KUMPEL – ONCE WE WERE PITMEN (Germany, Switzerland 2023, Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek). “Glück auf!” – five miners complete their final shifts and head into their new lives.

#World premiere, #Online, #Limited films, #In relation (to), #Evening of Life, #Europe

Student Award

The Student Award of DOK.fest München presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools. The films are nominated for the megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO MORE (Germany 2022, Afraa Batous). Four young Syrian women travelling across Europe. A refugee story? No, a road trip!

#World premiere, #Online, #War and its consequences, #Bodies in motion, #In relation (to), #Europe

BORDER CONVERSATIONS (Germany 2022, Jonathan Brunner). How to fight against nothingness? A film from the no-man's land on the EU eastern border.

#Award-winning films, #Online, #Europe

DREI FRAUEN – THREE WOMEN (Germany 2022, Maksym Melnyk). A film about a “cold place” in the Carpathians, home, joie de vivre and three indefatigable women.

#Online, #Europe

DOK.guest Turkey

Our guest country series this year looks east to Turkey: a country marked by ambivalences between tradition and modernity, secularism and religiosity. In four films, we examine various facets of life in Turkey and get to know five personalities who are tackling the pressing challenges of the country's current reality.