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 will our year-round programme.

 
CLEANING & CLEANSING (Austria 2024, Thomas Fürhapter). Everything must be thoroughly cleaned. An associative visual journey through the world of cleaning.
#With film talk, #DOK.deutsch nomination, #@home available
MARRIAGE COPS (India, Taiwan, United States 2025, Shashwati Talukdar, Cheryl Hess). Where do you go when your marriage breaks down? Indian female police officers counsel couples in crisis.
#@home available, #DOK.horizonte nomination
PING PONG PARADISE (Germany 2025, Jonas Egert). The rise, hubris and fall of TTC Neu-Ulm. A fast-paced thriller about ping pong at the highest level.
#@home available, #DOK.deutsch nomination, #DOK.4teens: Recommended from age 14
SINDROME ITALIA (Italy, Romania 2024, Ettore Mengozzi). A delicate film about how caring for the sick makes the carers themselves ill.
#With film talk, #@home available
THE INVISIBLE CONTRACT – TRATADO DE INVISIBILIDAD (Mexico 2024, Luciana Kaplan). Female cleaners in Mexico City. A sensitive social portrait.
#Only in cinema, #DOK.international nomination

Family Affairs

films about how we love and fight
RETURN (Germany, Israel 2025, Bar Mayer). After a long silence Bar returns to her ultra-orthodox home where a hidden archive reveals a forbidden form of (family-)life.
#@home available, #German language version
STRANGE BIRDS (Israel 2024, Shakked Auerbach). A film about family unity and the vague distinction between what is and isn’t normal.
#@home available
TATA (Germany, Netherlands, Romania 2024, Lina Vdovîi. Co-Director: Radu Ciorniciuc). ​​A moving portrait of family, abuse and the promise of a new beginning.
#Only in cinema
THE FABULOUS GOLD HARVESTING MACHINE – LA FABULOSA MÁQUINA DE COSECHAR ORO (Chile, Netherlands 2024, Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza). Toto, 56, a gold prospector in Patagonia, faces a dilemma: to go to the city or to stay?
#@home available
THE WATCHMAN – LE VEILLEUR (Belgium, France 2024, Lou du Pontavice. Co-Director: Victoire Bonin). China Calling. Zhaohang is studying abroad – and his parents are trying to fill the void he has left behind.
#With film talk, #Only in cinema
WHERE DRAGONS LIVE – WAAR DRAKEN WONEN (Netherlands, United Kingdom 2024, Suzanne Raes). How to inherit and get rid of a manor that is crammed with dragon eggs?
#@home available
WIR ERBEN (Switzerland 2024, Simon Baumann). An organic farm in France. The inheritance of his parents’ life’s work is something that the son thinks merits discussion.
#@home available, #GRETA app: audiodescription / subtitles for the hearing-impaired, #German subtitles, #DOK.deutsch nomination

Stranger Than Fiction

films between reality, archive, and essay
ACCIDENTAL ANIMALS (Germany 2024, Felix Klee. Co-Director: Leila Fatima Keita). Unexpected animal encounters on the internet – a short cinematic experiment.
#Student Award nomination, #With film talk, #@home available
ARCHEOLOGY OF LIGHT – ARCHÈOLOGIE DE LA LUMIÈRE (Canada 2024, Sylvain L'Esperance). The ocean, trees, moss, the forest floor – everything is light and perception. An immersive experience.
#DOK.international nomination, #@home available
BOALÂNDIA (Brazil, Germany 2024, Patrik Thomas, Mathias Reitz Zausinger). Culture as resistance. In Brazil, activists use art as their weapon.
#With film talk, #@home available

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