The film programme of the 40th DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

Presale starts on 24 April 2025.

 
 
 

Like every year, DOK.fest München 2025 opens up a view of the world: with 105 of the best and most current international documentaries from 58 countries.

For the 40th DOK.fest München, the former programme scheme is being dissolved. The festival films are divided into 16 thematically focussed sections based on current themes. 

Our aim is to ensure the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas and cultural venues as well as to home screens throughout Germany as barrier-free as possible: DOK.fest München stays dual!
HYPERMOON (Sweden 2023, Mia Engberg, DOK.international Main Competition). 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, DOK.international Main Competition). 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
AUF DER KIPPE (Germany 2023, Britt Beyer, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). 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, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). “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
ALL ROADS LEAD TO MORE (Germany 2022, Afraa Batous, Student Award). Four young Syrian women travelling across Europe. A refugee story? No, a road trip!
#World premiere, #Online, #Bodies in motion, #War and its consequences, #In relation (to), #Europe
BORDER CONVERSATIONS (Germany 2022, Jonathan Brunner, Student Award). 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, Student Award). A film about a “cold place” in the Carpathians, home, joie de vivre and three indefatigable women.
#Online, #Europe
EREN (Germany 2023, Maria Binder, DOK.guest Turkey). 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, DOK.guest Turkey). “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, DOK.guest Turkey). 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
TRANSLATING ULYSSES – ULYSSES ÇEVIRMEK (Netherlands, Turkey 2023, Firat Yucel, Aylin Kuryel, DOK.guest Turkey). Ulysses in Kurdish – a writer hopes to save the Kurdish language with world literature.
#Online, #World premiere, #Europe, #At home on two continents

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