The film programme of DOK.fest München. At the cinema. At home.

3 to 14 May 2023 at the Munich venues
8 to 21 May 2023 @home

As always, DOK.fest München opens the view out to the world: with 130 of the best and most current international documentaries from 55 countries. Our goal is the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas as well as to home screens throughout Germany: DOK.fest stays dual.

IL PIANETA IN MARE – INDUSTRIAL VENICE (Italy 2019, Andrea Segre). Disused manufacturing facilities and the last trattorias: Venice after the industrial dream.

#Human Animal Machine, #System critics and new visions

SCHLINGENSIEF – IN DAS SCHWEIGEN HINEINSCHREIEN – SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE (Germany 2020, Bettina Böhler). The brilliant artist Christoph Schlingensief: a reincarnation for the world to see.

#System critics and new visions, #The art of the hour

SMOG TOWN (China, Netherlands 2019, Meng Han). Environmentalism or economic penalties? A Chinese city fights against the smog.

#System critics and new visions, #Asia

BEST OF FESTS

Innovative cinema and intimate insights: The BEST OF FESTS series brings together films that have already been screened at other important festivals and celebrated or awarded prizes there.

FAT FRONT (Denmark, Norway, Sweden 2019, Louise Detlefsen, Louise Unmack Kjeldsen). All bodies are good bodies! Body positivity activists fight for a new body image

#System critics and new visions, #Northern Europe, #A hero's journey

MIDNIGHT FAMILY (Mexico, United States 2019, Luke Lorentzen). Bribes, emergency hospitalisations and the race to the next accident: ambulance rides through Mexico City.

#System critics and new visions, #While stocks last, #Latin America

NÎPAWISTAMÂSOWIN: WE WILL STAND UP (Canada 2019, Tasha Hubbard). Crime and Punishment: After the murder of an indigenous young man his family fights for justice.

#North America, #The Human Stain, #System critics and new visions

DOK.special40 years AG DOK

A small circle of documentary filmmakers joined together in 1980 with the aim of creating a lively documentary film culture in Germany. 40 years later, AG DOK is a professional association of more than 900 filmmakers and is also the largest film association in Germany. DOK.fest München is celebrating this with an anniversary programme: four selected documentary films by AG DOK members shed light on important socio-political issues of their respective times and thus exemplify four decades of a lively documentary film culture in Germany.

DEMOCRACY – IM RAUSCH DER DATEN (Germany 2015, David Bernet). Data protection in the EU parliament. A politician in the sights of the economic lobby.

#System critics and new visions, #Films with German subtitles

LOSERS AND WINNERS (Germany 2006, Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken). Ruhrgebiet goes China: Construction and dismantling of a coking plant. Who benefits from globalisation?

#System critics and new visions, #Films with German subtitles

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