The film programme of the 40th DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

DOK.fest München stays dual!

Our aim is to make our films as accessible as possible, which is why we are bringing them to the big screen in Munich cinemas and venues - and for the first time also in selected cinemas and venues in Augsburg - as well as to home screens barrier-free throughout Germany.

Furthermore, there are some films that are shown exclusively in cinemas - please note the filter option: Only in cinemas.
Use the @home available filter option to access the films that you can watch from the comfort of your own home from 12 to 25 May. 

 

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, #@home tickets limited

”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 tickets limited, #@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, #@home tickets limited, #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.
#GRETA app: audiodescription / subtitles for the hearing-impaired, #With film talk, #DOK.deutsch nomination, #German language version, #@home tickets limited, #@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.
#Former Marketplace project, #@home tickets limited, #@home available

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 tickets limited, #@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 tickets limited, #@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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