Mona Klöckner

DOK.education

Mona Klöckner, formerly Hafez, is an anthropologist and freelance media educator. She studied anthropology and intercultural communication with a focus on visual anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Sorbonne Paris. During her studies, she completed an internship at Doc en Stock Paris, participated in the realization of several documentary films, and produced two of her own in India and France, which received recognition at international festivals: THE DALAI LAMA IN MIND, TIBET IN MY HEART (IN/FR 2008) and INVISIBLE NEIGHBORS (FR/DE 2009).

For Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, she taught a Summer School in Visual Anthropology at the University of Islamabad in 2012. Since then, she has been giving film workshops for children, teenagers, and young adults, especially for young refugees. Many of the films can be seen on her YouTube channel.

Mona Klöckner worked at DOK.fest München from 2022 until the summer of 2026 as part of the DOK.education team. She led the project NEXTUS – Learning by documentaries, the European film platform for secondary education institutions, and was involved in all aspects of the year-round implementation of DOK.education, as well as in film education and practical projects for teachers, school classes and young people. From October 2025 until the summer of 2026, she headed the DOK.education department alongside Kathi Seemann.