EYES WIDE OPEN: All festival films of DOK.fest München

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.

Get an overview of the programme through our themed sections.
In each section, we present a signature film, accompanied by an in-depth FocusTalk.

We’re also presenting the films from our educational program, DOK.education.

You can buy your ticket directly on the respective film page.

 
SCARLET GIRLS – Niñas Escarlata (Dominikanische Republik, Mexiko, Deutschland 2026, Paula Cury). Abortion as criminal offence: Young women in the Dominican Republic risk prison sentences—and their lives.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #Body, #Family and Relationships, #@home
THE CULPRITS – Les Culpables (Spain 2026, Marta Duran Lozano). Breaking taboos and breaking free: Marta is giving a voice to anonymous abortion stories.
#Politics and Society, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #DOK.4teens, #Body, #@home
THE KARTLI KINGDOM – ᲥᲐᲠᲗᲚᲘᲡ ᲪᲮᲝᲕᲠᲔᲑᲐ (QARTLIS TSKHOVREBA) (France, Georgia, Qatar 2025, Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel). Kartli Kingdom, a rundown sanatorium in Tbilisi, becomes a safe haven for refugees.
#Politics and Society, #Migration and Displacement, #Family and Relationships, #@home
TO DANCE IS TO RESIST (Germany, Ukraine 2026, Julian Lautenbacher). From dance to resistance: queer dancers persevere in Kyiv.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Culture and Art, #Equality and Inclusion, #Only in cinemas

EcoCinema

Films about the world at tipping point
DAS GEWICHT DER WELT – THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD (Germany 2026, Florian Heinzen-Ziob). Feelings or facts? In light of the climate crisis, three scientists are taking action.
#Science and Future, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #Ganz großes Kino, #Environment and Nature
LA PIETÀ (Iceland, Lithuania, Spain 2025, Rafa Molés, Pepe Andreu). Where the world is melting, the crackling ice sings its swan song.
#Environment and Nature, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #@home
MELT (Austria 2025, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). What if snow and ice disappeared forever? A journey to places that will soon no longer exist.
#Environment and Nature, #@home
NUISANCE BEAR – Nuisance Bear (Canada, United Kingdom, United States 2025, Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden). When polar bears and humans come face to face: Climate change is causing habitats to overlap.
#Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #Ganz großes Kino, #Environment and Nature, #DOK.4teens, #@home
SYSTEMWANDELN – DIE WELT NEU ENTDECKEN (Germany 2026, Mickel Rentsch). Is a sustainable world possible? A bicycle road movie about initiatives that offer hope.
#Politics and Society, #Environment and Nature, #Economy and Business, #DOK.4teens
WE HAVE TO SURVIVE (Austria, France, Slovakia 2026, Tomas Krupa). Four locations in a changing world – stories of courage, survival, and hope.
#Economy and Business, #Environment and Nature, #Politics and Society, #@home

Reframing History

Films exploring how the past shapes our present
AMÍLCAR (Cabo Verde, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden 2025, Miguel Eek). Amílcar Cabral: Revolutionary, poet and leader in the struggle against colonial rule.
#Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #History, #Essay, #@home
HEART OF THE SEAL – BB Phoque (France 2025, Tito González García). Seal hunting in Greenland: An Inuit family faces pressure amid cultural change.
#History, #Equality and Inclusion, #Environment and Nature, #@home, #Migration and Displacement
MATERIA PRIMA (Germany 2026, Jens Schanze). A new natural resource, old structures: Bolivia between colonial history and the lithium boom.
#Economy and Business, #Environment and Nature, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home
MEANWHILE IN NAMIBIA (Germany, Namibia 2026, Jonas Spriestersbach). The injustices of the German colonial era in German South West Africa continue to have an impact in Namibia to this day.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home
MEMENTO MURI (DOK.shorts) (Italy 2025, Jonathan Bugiel). “Fortress Europe”: The Atlantic Wall as a monument to nationalistic hubris – an exploration.
#Nominee megaherz Student Award, #History, #@home

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