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.

Here you find our year-round programme.

 
MONK IN PIECES (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.
#Only in cinema
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?
#@home available
WE ALL BLEED RED (Germany 2024, Josephine Links). A photographer encounters the extremes of US society – and gives everyone an equal platform.
#@home available

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, #With film talk
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.
#@home available
WE NEVER LEFT (Lebanon, United States 2024, Loulwa Khoury). They emigrated from Lebanon. In exile, they continue to campaign for justice.
#@home available
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, #@home available
YALLA PARKOUR (Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden 2024, Areeb Zuaiter). Parkour in Gaza: torn between longing for home and a life in freedom.
#@home available

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.
#@home available
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.
#With film talk, #@home available
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.
#@home available, #DOK.horizonte nomination, #With film talk

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
#With film talk, #Only in cinema
DIE GRÜNEN - AUFSTIEG UND KRISE EINER DEUTSCHEN PARTEI (Deutschland 2025, Hauke Wendler, Lisa Maria Hagen). A three part series that draws a multifaceted portrait of Alliance 90 / The Greens.
#@home available

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.
DER LETZTE DOKUMENTARFILM (Deutschland, Niederlande 2000, Sponsel Daniel, Jan Sebening).
#German subtitles, #German language version, #@home available

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