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.

ADIEU SAUVAGE (Belgium 2023, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento). From Belgium to the Columbian jungle. A poetic tale about the complexity of “origin”.

#Online, #Latin America, #In relation (to), #For cineasts, #German premiere

DEMON MINERAL (United States 2023, Hadley Austin). A shrewd manifesto on “nuclear colonialism” in the territory of the Navajo Nation in South West USA.

#World premiere, #Online, #In the Close-up: Evironment, Nature & Climate Change, #For cineasts

LA EMPRESA (Germany 2023, André Siegers). Illegal border crossings re-enacted for tourists: the Caminata Nocturna in Mexico.

#Online, #Latin America, #For cineasts, #German premiere

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

THE GOLDEN THREAD (Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom 2022, Nishtha Jain). A tireless dance of machinery, sweat and dust: jute production on the outskirts of Calcutta.

#Online, #Limited films, #For cineasts, #German premiere

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.

AGAINST THE TIDE (France, India 2023, Sarvnik Kaur). Friendship in a world where tradition meets globalisation: the story of the Indian Koli fishermen Ganesh and Rakesh.

#Only in the cinema, #In relation (to), #For cineasts, #German premiere

DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?

This year's DOK.focus series POWER OF MEDIA? deals with the contradictory and at the same time decisive role our media play in today's world in five selected films.

IRON BUTTERFLIES (Germany, Ukraine 2023, Roman Liubyi). In 2014, flight MH17 is shot down over Ukraine. And so begins a wide-reaching Russian disinformation campaign.

#Online, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities, #For cineasts

Homage Nikolaus Geyrhalter

His unmistakable signature – visually powerful, epic, opulent-hypnotic – leaves a lasting impression. The autodidact, whose works are always a deep bow to the documentary, is always concerned in his films with more than the purely mental experience. The homage to Nikolaus Geyrhalter presents six films from four decades of his artistic work.

ABENDLAND (Austria 2011, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). Europe by night: an associative journey that involuntarily reveals the political.

#Online, #For cineasts, #Europe

MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Austria 2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). A visually powerful take on the global waste problem – poetic and sobering in equal measure.

#Online, #For cineasts

PRIPYAT (Austria 1999, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). A 30-kilometre nuclear exclusion zone. Survival twelve years after the Chernobyl disaster

#Online, #In the Close-up: Evironment, Nature & Climate Change, #For cineasts, #Europe

UNSER TÄGLICH BROT – OUR DAILY BREAD (Austria 2005, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). What or whom do we actually eat? A picture meal that hits the stomach.

#Online, #In the Close-up: Evironment, Nature & Climate Change, #For cineasts

Retrospective DOK.network Africa

To mark the 10th anniversary of DOK.network Africa, our retrospective is dedicated to documentary films from the African continent. Guest curators from east, west and south Africa present six outstanding films from the 1970s to the 2020s.