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.

Please enter the festival edition you would like to find out more about a film in the year field.

Munich Premieres

A SOUND OF MY OWN (Germany 2021, Rebecca Zehr). Walking a fine line between legacy and reinvention, Marja leads the legendary Krautrock collective Embryo.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Nominees Talent Award Documentary Film, #Nominees Germany Documentary Film Music Award, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

DOK.music

CESÁRIA ÉVORA (Portugal, United States 2022, Ana Sofia Fonseca). A story of depression and all the stages of the world. The Diva of the Cape Verde Islands – the one who sang barefoot.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Africa

LE MALI 70 (Germany 2022, Markus CM Schmidt). The Berlin band Omniversal Earkestra meets jazz legends from Mali: an Afro big band road movie

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe, #Best Doks, #Africa

REWIND & PLAY (France, Germany 2022, Alain Gomis). Jazz musician Thelonious Monk is confronted with stereotypes during a TV recording in Paris in 1969.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe

THE KAISER OF ATLANTIS (Argentina, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Spain 2022, Sebastián Alfie). Music from hell – blisteringly relevant today. A provocative chamber opera from Theresienstadt.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

UNSERE HERZEN – EIN KLANG (Germany 2021, Simone Dobmeier, Torsten Striegnitz). ​​Choirmasters make music with voices. An ode to conductor-led polyphony.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

DOK.special

1001 NIGHTS APART (Germany, Iran, United States 2021, Sarvnaz Alambeigi). Sheherazade had to tell stories to stay alive – we have to dance! – This film is available in our online film library DOK.fest @home Selection: www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Selection

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Award-winning Film, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #To the Limit: Sweat & Tears, #Best Doks, #Asia

GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT (Germany 2022, Hans von Brockhausen, Max Weishaupt). When giving up is not an option: how club culture in Munich survived the pandemic.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe

LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD – LOVE, DEUTSCHMARK AND DEATH (Germany 2022, Cem Kaya). The Turkish guest workers brought their music with them to Germany. A hidden treasure!

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Award-winning Film, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe, #Best Doks

OTL AICHER, DER DENKER AM OBJEKT (Germany 1991, Peter Schubert). A style-defining design legend and headstrong Swabian. Allow us to introduce: Otl Aicher.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

SUSANNA TAMARO UNPLUGGED (Italy 2021, Katia Bernardi). Susanna Tamaro is a bestselling author and someone who likes to keep herself to herself. Insights into a life lived autonomously.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Europe

VERABREDUNGEN MIT EINEM DICHTER – MICHAEL KRÜGER (Germany 2022, Frank Wierke). A gentle stroll through the life and thoughts of a great intellectual of our time.

#The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

WIEGENLIEDER – LULLABY (Germany 2010, Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt). The gentle melody of a lullaby: memories of childhood and mothers.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #The Art of Living: Art, Theater, Music, Dance, Literature, Photography, #Films with German Subtitles, #Europe

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