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 find our programme archive up to 2003.

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SPALTUNG – FISSION (Germany 2025, João Pedro Prado. Co-Director: Anton Yaremchuk). Nuclear power. Yes please! No thank you! A discourse between fans and critics.
#DOK.deutsch nomination, #Only in cinema, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14, #German language version
WE LIVE HERE – ATAMEKEN (Kazakhstan 2024, Zhanana Kurmasheva). Atomic weapons testing in the Kazakh Steppe – seen through the eyes of three generations.
#@home available, #DOK.horizonte nomination
YUMI – THE WHOLE WORLD (Egypt, Fiji, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, United States, Vanuatu 2024, Felix Golenko). The South Pacific faces rising sea levels. Three students and an ace up their sleeves.
#Student Award nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14, #@home available

Empowered

films about defiance and speaking out
(K)EINEN TON SAGEN – (DON'T) BREATHE A WORD (Italy 2024, Georg Lembergh). Four women discuss their experiences of sexual abuse and speak about rehabilitation and dignity.
#German language version, #DOK.deutsch nomination, #@home available
AZZA (Germany 2025, Stefanie Brockhaus). Divorced and working as a driving instructor? A revolution in Saudi Arabia – one small step at a time.
#Only in cinema, #DOK.international nomination
È A QUESTO PUNTO CHE NASCE IL BISOGNO DI FARE STORIA – IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE NEED TO WRITE HISTORY ARISES (Austria, Portugal 2024, Constanze Ruhm). ​​Five centuries of feminist struggles. An essay film born out of an archive discovery.
#@home available
GIRLS & GODS (Austria, Switzerland 2025, Arash T. Riahi, Verena Soltiz). Feminism and religious faith - an irreconcilable contradiction or compatible after all?
#Only in cinema, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14
LI CHAM – I DIED (Mexico 2024, Ana Ts'uyeb). No land, no rights, no joy? A film about three self-empowered women.
#Only in cinema, #DOK.horizonte nomination
WIDOW CHAMPION (Kenya 2024, Zippy Kimundu). Widows united! Resilient Kenyan widows and the struggle for basic women’s rights.
#@home available, #DOK.horizonte nomination
WOMAN/MOTHER – woman/mOther (Germany 2025, Klara Harden). Creative expression despite the isolation and overwhelming demands of motherhood – a performative quest.
#Student Award nomination, #German language version, #@home available

This Is America

films about a divided United States
CHILD OF DUST (Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Viet Nam 2025, Weronika Mliczewska). It is never too late: a poignant story of an American Vietnamese man searching for his father.
#@home available
SEEDS (United States 2024, Brittany Shyne). A lyrical insight into the fragile existence of black farmers in the American South.
#Only in cinema
THE BAD GUY (Belgium, United States 2024, Louise Van Assche. Co-Director: Kwinten Gernay). Safety first! Texas and active shooter drills in schools.
#@home available
THE LAST REPUBLICAN (United States 2024, Steve Pink). His constitutional oath is more important to him than Donald Trump. A portrait of a patriot.
#@home available
THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT (United States 2024, Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk). How lobbying overturned climate policy – an archive film about missed chances.
#Only in cinema

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