EYES WIDE OPEN

Over 100 current international documentaries will open up new perspectives on our world at DOK.fest München – from May 6 to 25, 2026.

 

 

The Artist is Present

Films on artists and their realities
LOIS WEINBERGER - RUDERAL SOCIETY (Austria 2025, Markus Heltschl). Artist, poet, and “field worker” – a tribute to a boundary-breaker who championed wilderness over order.
#Portrait, #History, #Environment and Nature, #Culture and Art, #@home, #With film talk
MOVEMENT UNBOUND (Germany 2026, Miriam Jakobs, Gerhard Schick). For 30 years, the DIN A 13 tanzcompany company has been breaking aesthetic and artistic norms in the world of dance.
#World Premiere, #Sports, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Body, #Culture and Art, #DOK.4teens, #@home
NOVA '78 (Portugal, United Kingdom 2025, Aaron Brookner, Rodrigo Areias). East Village, 1978: The avant-garde circle around William S. Burroughs gathers for the Nova Convention. Warning: explosive footage!
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Music, #Culture and Art, #History, #@home
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI. LIVING WITHOUT A SCRIPT – Roberto Rossellini. Più di una vita (Italy 2025, Ilaria De Laurentiis, Raffaele Brunetti, Andrea Paolo Massara). Roberto Rossellini: Curious, true to his ideals, uncompromising to the very end.
#With film talk, #Culture and Art, #Family and Relationships, #@home, #Portrait
THE MAGIC CITY - BIRMINGHAM SELON SUN RA – The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra (Belgium 2025, Guillaume Maupin, Pablo Guarise). From Magic City to Saturn: The cosmic journey of jazz legend Sun Ra.
#Portrait, #Music, #With film talk, #Culture and Art, #@home

The Sound of Music

Films about musicians and their stories
AMADOU ET MARIAM - THE BLIND COUPLE FROM MALI (Canada 2026, Ryan Marley). The musical duo Amadou and Mariam: First they conquered Bamako, then the whole world.
#Portrait, #Music, #Culture and Art, #@home
ENSEMBLE MODERN – WHY WE PLAY (Germany 2026, Thorsten Schütte). Ensemble Modern proves that New Music isn't stuffy, but a wonderful adventure!
#Portrait, #Music, #With film talk, #Culture and Art
HEX (Norway 2026, Maja Holand). The band Witch Club Satan: Three women bringing feminism to the world of black metal.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Only in cinemas, #Music, #Culture and Art
SPORTFREUNDE STILLER – MIT DEM HERZ IN DER HAND (Germany 2026, Thorsten Berrar). An exceptionally intimate music documentary about the cult band ‘Sportfreunde Stiller’.
#Portrait, #Only in cinemas, #Music, #With film talk, #Culture and Art, #World Premiere

Interdependence

Films about how We Love and Fight
VATER, SOHN UND DER PREIS DES WIDERSTANDS – Father, Son and the Price of Resistance (Germany 2026, Götz Schauder). Scars of dictatorship: A father and son struggle to find closeness.
#World Premiere, #Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #With film talk, #Culture and Art, #History, #Family and Relationships

Young perspectives

Films about growing up in this world
HOOD STORIES (Germany 2026, Alexander Bruch). From the ghetto to the stage – a song brings together four young rap talents.
#World Premiere, #Portrait, #Only in cinemas, #Music, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #DOK.4teens, #Culture and Art
MUSEUM (France 2025, Olivier Bienaimé Hervé Bienaimé). Teens from the French countryside ponder the limits of life in front of abstract paintings.
#Politics and Society, #Culture and Art, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home

LifeTogether

Films about Community
AND THEY LIVE IN ROW HOUSES (DOK.shorts) (Austria 2025, Matteo Sanders, Julia Haugeneder). Dad, Mom, child. And they need a house. Neatly lined in a row. A "dys-topology".
#Politics and Society, #Nominee megaherz Student Award, #History, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Family and Relationships, #Culture and Art, #@home, #With film talk
EDGE OF THE NIGHT – Ööäär (Estonia 2025, Vladimir Loginov). Sleepless in Tallinn: Nocturnal glimpses between a karaoke bar, emergency call center, and sex club.
#Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Essay, #Culture and Art, #With film talk
OUTLIVING SHAKESPEARE (Armenia, Netherlands 2025, Inna Sahakyan, Ruben Ghazaryan). The stage as a mirror of life: residents of an Armenian retirement home rehearsing Shakespeare.
#Politics and Society, #Migration and Displacement, #Culture and Art, #Family and Relationships, #@home
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