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.

 

Beyond Borders

Films about migration, exile, and their realities
A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON (Denmark, France, Iran, United Kingdom, United States 2025, Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhalaghi). A clown, a fox, the moon: the cinematic diary of an Iranian woman on her journey to freedom.
#Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #Migration and Displacement, #Culture and Art
NOT MADE FOR POLITICS – Not Made for Politics (Estonia, France, United States 2025, Volia Chajkouskaya). Thirty years of dictatorship: Three women show strength and courage in their protest against Lukashenko.
#Migration and Displacement, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #@home, #Politics and Society
ONE IN A MILLION – One in a Million (United Kingdom, United States 2026, Itab Azzam, Jack Macinnes). Ten years in the life of a Syrian family in Cologne after fleeing Aleppo.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Portrait, #Migration and Displacement, #Equality and Inclusion, #Family and Relationships, #Only in cinemas
PAIKAR (Afghanistan, Iran, Netherlands 2025, Dawood Hilmandi). In all four corners of the world: An autobiographical attempt to get to know one’s own father.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #Migration and Displacement, #Family and Relationships, #@home
UNWELCOMED – Si vas para Chile (Chile 2025, Sebastián González, Amílcar Infante). “We have no life there anymore”: Thousands of Venezuelans at Chile's inhospitable border.
#Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #Migration and Displacement, #@home

Politics. In times like these

Films about power, freedom, and human rights
80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS – 80 Angry Journalists (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway 2026, András Földes, Anna Kis). Joint resignation in the fight for press freedom: 80 journalists leave the editorial office.
#Politics and Society, #History, #@home
CHANGE MY MIND – VELKÝ VLASTENECKÝ VÝLET (Czech Republic 2025, Robin Kvapil). Three Czech pro-Putin supporters on the Ukrainian front: Can their ideology withstand reality?
#History, #@home, #Politics and Society
INNERE EMIGRANTEN – INNER EMIGRANTS (France, Germany 2025, Lena Karbe). Call for counsel: A hotline in Moscow provides psychological support during the war in Ukraine.
#Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Other, #Only in cinemas, #DOK.4teens
SILENT FLOOD (Germany, Ukraine 2025, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk). On the banks of the Dniester: A village in western Ukraine caught between pacifism and war.
#Politics and Society, #@home
THE NARRATIVE (Switzerland 2026, Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt). A UBS trader has been found guilty of causing a $2.3 billion loss. But is he really at fault?
#Economy and Business, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #@home
WAHLKAMPF – THE RACE (Austria 2026, Harald Friedl). The SPÖ's left-wing figurehead: Andreas Babler fights for revolutionary change.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #@home
WHEN I GET JAILED (France 2025, Anastasiia Vedenskaia). After Navalny's death, Russians who oppose the ruling regime want to pay their respects by laying flowers—but this will not be without consequences.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #@home
WHISTLEBLOWER (Germany 2025, Marc Bauder). In the fight against corruption and manipulation, whistleblowers themselves become targets.
#History, #Ganz großes Kino, #Economy and Business, #@home, #Politics and Society

HerStory

Films about fearless women
BARBARA FOREVER (United States 2026, Brydie O'Connor). The story of a visual poet who dedicated her life to filming women in an intimate and experimental way.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Family and Relationships, #Only in cinemas
HELENE WEIGEL – REVOLUTIONÄRIN IM RAMPENLICHT – HELENE WEIGEL – INSTRUCTIONS FOR A REVOLUTION (Deutschland, Österreich 2026, Maria Wischnewski). A communist and an exceptional artist: finally, the woman “at Brecht's side" is stepping into the spotlight.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #Migration and Displacement, #Culture and Art, #Family and Relationships

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