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!
THEATRE OF VIOLENCE (Denmark 2023, Łukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, DOK.international Main Competition). A former Ugandan child soldier who later became a commander is on trial. Is he a perpetrator or a victim?
#Award-winning films, #Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #German premiere, #Africa
BAGHDAD ON FIRE (Iraq, Norway 2023, Karrar Al-Azzawi, DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency). “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
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
5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION (Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Syria 2023, Lina N.N., DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?). 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
IRON BUTTERFLIES (Germany, Ukraine 2023, Roman Liubyi, DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?). ​​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
MANIFESTO (Russian Federation 2022, Angie Vinchito, DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?). Present day Russia through the lens of social media: a film mosaic with TikTok-, YouTube- and Periscope-Clips.
#Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities
8TH DAY OF THE WAR – 8. DEN VÁLKY (Czech Republic 2022, Oksana Moiseniuk, DOK.panorama). Are the loved ones still alive? The Ukrainian diaspora in Prague lives through the eighth day of the war.
#Online, #War and its consequences, #German premiere
BLIX NOT BOMBS (Czech Republic 2023, Greta Stocklassa, DOK.panorama). Can diplomacy save the world? The former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix looks back.
#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #Europe, #German premiere
THE SUMMER OF '91 – POLETJE '91 (Slovenia 2022, Žiga Virc, DOK.panorama). Barricades, tanks, air strikes – ten days of war after Slovenia’s declaration of independence.
#Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #War and its consequences, #German premiere
DREI FRAUEN – EIN KRIEG – TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR (Germany, Italy 2022, Luzia Schmid, Best of Fests). Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn and Margret Bourke-White: three female war reporters on the frontline.
#War and its consequences, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe, #Picture the picture: films, videos, photographies & paintings, #Controverse medialities, #Online
MOTHERLAND (Norway, Sweden, Ukraine 2023, Hanna Badziaka, Alexander Mihalkovich, Best of Fests). What does military service do to soldiers? A film about abuse and violence in the Belarusian army and society.
#War and its consequences, #For cineasts, #Only in the cinema
HAMMOUDIS TRAUM – HAMMOUDIS DREAM (Netherlands 2021, Els van Driel, Eefje Blankevoort, DOK.education). At the age of 14 Hammoudi had to flee Syria – alone. Does he manage to reunite with his family? His dream of becoming a doctor gives him strength.
#Online, #War and its consequences, #Young perspectives – Coming of age, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older

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