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.

WAKING UP IN SILENCE (Germany, Ukraine 2023, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko). What does the world look like for refugee children? An encounter, an invitation to play.

#Young perspectives – Coming of age, #Online

DOK.guest Turkey

Our guest country series this year looks east to Turkey: a country marked by ambivalences between tradition and modernity, secularism and religiosity. In four films, we examine various facets of life in Turkey and get to know five personalities who are tackling the pressing challenges of the country's current reality.

EREN (Germany 2023, Maria Binder). Eren Keskin – a lawyer who fights for the rights of women and minorities in Turkey.

#At home on two continents, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Only in the cinema, #Europe, #German premiere, #Asia

SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM (Norway 2021, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen). “Islam needs a sexual revolution!” – the controversial struggle of a Berlin imam.

#At home on two continents, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Europe, #Asia

THE DECREE – KANUN HÜKMÜ (Turkey 2023, Nejla Demirci). Silenced by decree: the exhausting battle against arbitrary dismissals in Turkey.

#World premiere, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Online, #Europe, #At home on two continents, #Asia

TRANSLATING ULYSSES – ULYSSES ÇEVIRMEK (Netherlands, Turkey 2023, Firat Yucel, Aylin Kuryel). Ulysses in Kurdish – a writer hopes to save the Kurdish language with world literature.

#Online, #World premiere, #Europe, #At home on two continents

DOK.focus POWER OF MEDIA?

This year's DOK.focus series POWER OF MEDIA? deals with the contradictory and at the same time decisive role our media play in today's world in five selected films.

5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION (Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic 2023, Lina N.N.). Lina films 10 years of Syrian civil war. Journalism as a means of non-violent resistance.

#Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities, #German premiere, #Asia

AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE (Sweden 2022, Axel Danielson, Maximilien van Aertryck). A visually powerful journey through the history of visual media – from the first photographs to the present day.

#Online, #Controverse medialities, #Picture the picture: films, videos, photographies & paintings

GOLDHAMMER (Germany 2023, André Krummel). Sex, drugs… or rather, politics? Marcel Goldhammer asks: why not all three?

#Controverse medialities, #Europe, #Online

IRON BUTTERFLIES (Germany, Ukraine 2023, Roman Liubyi). In 2014, flight MH17 is shot down over Ukraine. And so begins a wide-reaching Russian disinformation campaign.

#Online, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities, #For cineasts

MANIFESTO (Russian Federation 2022, Angie Vinchito). Present day Russia through the lens of social media: a film mosaic with TikTok-, YouTube- and Periscope-Clips.

#Only in the cinema, #War and its consequences, #Controverse medialities

Homage Nikolaus Geyrhalter

His unmistakable signature – visually powerful, epic, opulent-hypnotic – leaves a lasting impression. The autodidact, whose works are always a deep bow to the documentary, is always concerned in his films with more than the purely mental experience. The homage to Nikolaus Geyrhalter presents six films from four decades of his artistic work.