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.

FÜR DIE VIELEN – DIE ARBEITERKAMMER WIEN (Austria 2022, Constantin Wulff). Can you organise justice? Yes! The Chamber of Labour in Vienna shows that it is possible. A didactic play!

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe, #Working World in Upheaval

HOUSEWITZ (Netherlands 2021, Oeke Hoogendijk). The filmmaker’s mother has not left her house for decades. A striking portrait.

#Struggle for Visibility: Mental Lifeworlds, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past

JANE BY CHARLOTTE (France 2021, Charlotte Gainsbourg). Charlotte Gainsbourg’s highly detailed and deeply affectionate portrait of her mother Jane Birkin

#For Cineastes, #Europe

KALLE KOSMONAUT (Germany 2022, Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth). Lunch at “The Ark,” playing Uno, coming of age, jail. Adolescence on the Avenue of the Cosmonauts in Berlin.

#We are Family: Where do I belong?, #Nominees VFF Documentary Film Production Award, #Nominees Documentary Film Award of the Goethe-Institut, #Nominees DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Nominees Germany Documentary Film Music Award, #Limited Films, #Europe, #DOK.4teens: 14 years and older

LICHT. STOCKHAUSEN'S LEGACY (Netherlands 2021, Oeke Hoogendijk). Karlheinz Stockhausen: a musical genius who was light years ahead of his time.

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

REPUBLIC OF SILENCE (France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic 2021, Diana El Jeiroudi). A radically personal film essay about the collapse of Syria and life in exile.

#Where is Home: Migration & Flight, #Power of the People: Politics & Society, #Europe, #Looking back: Coping with the Past, #Asia

YOUNG PLATO (Belgium, France, Ireland 2021, Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath). Despite being surrounded by conflict, a teacher in Northern Ireland promotes the power of philosophy.

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

Close-up: Poland

HFF Screenings of the Television Journalism Department – In 5 close-ups we show Polish realities, from the struggle for freedom of expression and women's rights to the situation in the Upper Silesian coalfield, refugee policy and the resurgence of Judaism.

75€! (Germany 2022, Luigjina Shkupa). What is the effect of Poland's restrictive legislation on the issue of the protection of life?

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

BORDERS – GRANICE (Germany 2022, Nicole Humiński). While Poland receives international encouragement for accepting Ukrainian refugees, the controversial situation on the border with Belarus recedes into the background.

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

ENERGIA (Germany 2022, Jona Salcher). Hands toiling deep down in the darkness of the mine, strange echoing sounds from the belly of the earth.

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

MEDIEN OHNE WAHL? (Germany 2022, Hanna Stock). As of right now, Poland ranks 64th in the World Press Freedom Index, in 2015 it ranked 12th. What happened?

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

UFLEB – ופלעב (Germany 2022, Hilarija Ločmele). How do you deal with it when you suddenly learn that you have Jewish ancestors?

#Cinema Special: Only with Popcorn Crackling, #Europe

DOK.focus BRAVE NEW WORK

Brave new world of work? Hardly any other area of life today is subject to such radical changes. A total of seven films illuminate global perspectives on work in transition.