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

Here you find all festival films by festival edition. You can sort by thematic section, countries and keywords (nominations, with film talk, language versions etc.).

Here you will our year-round programme.

 

Retrospective

four films from four decades of DOK.fest München
CITIZENFOUR (Germany, United States 2014, Laura Poitras). Oscar-winning political thriller. The revelations of the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
#@home available
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.
#Only in cinema
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.
#Only in cinema, #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.
#@home available

”Never Again” Is Now?

films about memory and resistance
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.
#@home available
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.
#Only in cinema, #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, #DOK.international nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14, #German subtitles, #@home available
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.
#@home available, #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.
#Only in cinema, #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, #@home available
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.
#@home available, #Former Marketplace project

Crossing Boundaries

films about migration and its realities
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, #@home available
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.
#@home available
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?
#@home available, #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.
#Only in cinema, #With film talk, #DOK.international nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14

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