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

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

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

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

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

TRANSLATING ULYSSES – ULYSSES ÇEVIRMEK (Netherlands, Turkey 2023, Firat Yucel, Aylin Kuryel). 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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