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

THEATRE OF VIOLENCE (Denmark 2023, Łukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe). 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

DOK.horizonte Competition – Cinema of Urgency

BAGHDAD ON FIRE (Iraq, Norway 2023, Karrar Al-Azzawi). “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

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

DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?

5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION (Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic 2023, Lina N.N.). 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). ​​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). 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

DOK.panorama

8TH DAY OF THE WAR – 8. DEN VÁLKY (Czech Republic 2022, Oksana Moiseniuk). Are the loved ones still alive? The Ukrainian diaspora in Prague lives through the eighth day of the war.

#War and its consequences, #German premiere, #Online

BLIX NOT BOMBS (Czech Republic 2023, Greta Stocklassa). 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). 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

BEST OF FESTS

DREI FRAUEN – EIN KRIEG – TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR (Germany, Italy 2022, Luzia Schmid). 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). 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

DOK.education

HAMMOUDIS TRAUM – HAMMOUDIS DREAM (Netherlands 2021, Els van Driel, Eefje Blankevoort). 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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