All festival films of DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

EYES WIDE OPEN

Over 100 current international documentaries will open up new perspectives on our world at DOK.fest Munich – from May 6 to 25, 2026.
Before we publish the full program, you can already find the films from our series “HerStory – Films about Fearless Women” here.
You’ll also find the films from the DOK.education program.

All films from the 41st edition of the festival will be available here starting April 15, 2026.
Advance ticket sales also begin on that day.

 

Retrospective
CITIZENFOUR (Germany, United States 2014, Laura Poitras). Oscar-winning political thriller. The revelations of the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE (Frankreich 2000, Agnès Varda). About throwing things away and collecting them – an essay full of delight that takes us beyond consumer society.
STEP ACROSS THE BORDER (Schweiz / Deutschland 1990, Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel). Fred Frith and co... A masterful discourse on the spirit of music and filmmaking.
#With film talk, #German subtitles
THE EUPHORIA OF BEING – A LÉTEZÉS EUFÓRIÁJA (Ungarn 2019, Réka Szabó). 90-year-old holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi in a dance performance that tells the story of her life.

”Never Again” Is Now?
DAS LIED DER ANDEREN – THE SONG OF OTHERS (Switzerland 2024, Vadim Jendreyko). Surprisingly hopeful. Vadim Jendreyko’s journey takes in Europe’s origins and its scars.
DIE MÖLLNER BRIEFE – THE MOELLN LETTERS (Germany 2025, Martina Priessner). Letters full of sympathy, sadness and shame. The Arslan family fights for a new culture of remembrance.
#With film talk, #GRETA app: audiodescription / subtitles for the hearing-impaired, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14
FRIENDLY FIRE (Austria, Germany 2025, Ein Film von Klaus Fried, realisiert von Julia Albrecht). Emigrant, humanist and poet. Who was Erich Fried? His son Klaus follows the traces.
#With film talk, #German subtitles, #DOK.international nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14
IM OSTEN WAS NEUES – CHANGING SIDES – EICHI AND THE FC PIO (Germany 2025, Loraine Blumenthal). From East German right-wing extremist to volunteer coach for stranded young people from across the world.
#DOK.deutsch nomination
IT HAPPENED ON OUR GROUND (Canada, Germany, Israel 2024, Avner Faingulernt). The Nazi past of a place casts a shadow over women from three generations of a family.
#DOK.international nomination
SOLDATEN DES LICHTS – SOLDIERS OF LIGHT (Germany 2024, Julian Vogel. Co-Director: Johannes Büttner). Wonder cures for cancer, a raw food influencer and a well-organised Reichsbürger sect. The apocalypse draws near.
#With film talk, #GRETA app: audiodescription / subtitles for the hearing-impaired, #German language version, #DOK.deutsch nomination
THE SREBRENICA TAPE - FROM DAD, FOR ALISA (Austria, Germany 2025, Chiara Sambuchi). Four hours of video material from Srebrenica – a daughter’s search for traces of her father.
#Former Marketplace project

Crossing Boundaries
ALL IS WELL – ALLES GOED (Netherlands 2024, Lataster-Czisch Petra und Peter). Cooking therapy: at a shelter for Ukrainian refugees, the kitchen is a sanctuary.
#With film talk
FRONT ROW (Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States 2024, Miriam Guttmann). The stage is their frontline. They dance to survive – in exile and at home in Ukraine.
ON THE BORDER (Austria, Germany, Switzerland 2024, Igor Gerald Hauzenberger. Co-Director: Gabriela Schild). The EU is setting up borders in the Sahara – what does this mean for the people in Agadez?
#Former Marketplace project
SOLIDARITY (Germany, Switzerland 2025, David Bernet). ​​A non-negotiable value or a Sisyphean task? The topic of solidarity has its light and dark sides.
#With film talk, #DOK.international nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14

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