The film programme of the 40th DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

Presale starts on 24 April 2025.

 
 
 

Like every year, DOK.fest München 2025 opens up a view of the world: with 105 of the best and most current international documentaries from 58 countries.

For the 40th DOK.fest München, the former programme scheme is being dissolved. The festival films are divided into 16 thematically focussed sections based on current themes. 

Our aim is to ensure the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas and cultural venues as well as to home screens throughout Germany as barrier-free as possible: DOK.fest München stays dual!
MONK IN PIECES (France, Germany, United States 2025, Billy Shebar. Co-Director: David C. Roberts). Vocal art and performance: a multifaceted portrait of the Avant Garde artist Meredith Monk.
THE NEW MUSEUM – DET NYE MUSEET (Norwegen 2025, Birgitte Sigmundstad). Merging four well-established museums into one huge national museum: how does this turn out?
WE ALL BLEED RED (Germany 2024, Josephine Links). A photographer encounters the extremes of US society – and gives everyone an equal platform.

Filmmaking in Exile

films about filmmaking far from home
KHARTOUM (Germany, Qatar, Sudan, United Kingdom 2025, Ahmad Ibrahim. Co-Director: Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timeea M.Ahmed, Phil Cox). Upheaval in Sudan: five portraits of people in Khartoum fated to end up in exile.
#Only in Cinema
TIME TO THE TARGET – CHAS PIDLOTU (Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine 2025, Vitaly Mansky). Peace during wartime? Images of comfort in Lviv while people are dying on the frontline.
WE NEVER LEFT (Lebanon, United States 2024, Loulwa Khoury). They emigrated from Lebanon. In exile, they continue to campaign for justice.
WRITING HAWA (Afghanistan, France, Netherlands, Qatar 2024, Najiba Noori. Co-Director: Rasul Noori). Najiba films her mother’s emancipation - until she is forced to flee from the Taliban.
#DOK.horizonte nomination
YALLA PARKOUR (Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden 2024, Areeb Zuaiter). Parkour in Gaza: torn between longing for home and a life in freedom.

African Encounters

films and talks about climate justice
RISING UP AT NIGHT – TONGO SAA (Belgium, Burkina Faso, Congo (Democratic Republic), Germany, Qatar 2024, Nelson Makengo). Darkness reigns in Kinshasa. The power has been cut off since the city was hit by catastrophic flooding.
THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA (Greece, Kenya, United States 2024, Daphne Matziaraki. Co-Director: Peter Murimi). Long-lasting droughts intensify colonial conflicts in Kenya: a consequence of climate change.
THE TREE OF AUTHENTICITY – L’ARBRE DE L’AUTHENTICITÉ (Belgium, Congo (Democratic Republic) 2025, Sammy Baloji). An essay about colonial legacy in DR Congo and what it means for climate policy today.
#DOK.horizonte nomination

DOK.serie

To be continued – Documentary, serialised
DAS NAZI-KARTELL (Deutschland 2025, Justin Webster). A fateful alliance: how a narco and a Nazi paved the way for drug cartels in 1980
DIE GRÜNEN - AUFSTIEG UND KRISE EINER DEUTSCHEN PARTEI (Deutschland 2025, Hauke Wendler. Co-Director: Lisa Maria Hagen). A three part series that draws a multifaceted portrait of Alliance 90 / The Greens.
#Limited films

DOK.special

In this section we present films in cooperation with selected partners from art, culture and society in Munich and beyond.
CROSSING BORDERS PARIS (Deutschland 2025, Emilia Haar, Natalia Mamaj, Elisabeth Plattner, Michael Groß, Carina Bethmann, Nadja Ißler). Crossing Borders - a television journalism project from HFF München. 2025: PARIS. 3 short films.
MEXICO, MONTREAL AND MORE... (Deutschland 2025, Luca-Els Mauritz, Luis Spielmann, Alfredo Rouco, Arturo De Ita, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Louis Dickhaut). Students from Mexico, Montreal and Munich screen films from their semesters abroad.

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