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
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

The Sound of Music

Films about musicians and their stories
CELTIC UTOPIA – ÚTÓIPE CHEILTEACH (Ireland, Sweden 2025, Dennis Harvey, Lars Lovén). Ireland caught between history, identity, and folk music: raw, poetic, hopeful?
#Politics and Society, #Music, #History, #@home

Interdependence

Films about how We Love and Fight
POLITIK IST PERSÖNLICH – Politics are Personal (Germany 2026, Indira Geisel). “Socialism is work”: A political change of allegiance splits a family.
#With film talk, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #Limited films, #History, #Family and Relationships, #@home, #World Premiere
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

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
IM UMKREIS DES PARADIESES – Around Paradise (Germany 2026, Yulia Lokshina). El Paraíso Verde: a European dropout community caught between myths and conspiracy theories.
#Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Migration and Displacement, #History, #With film talk
SCHWARZE HÄUSER – A House Unspoken (Germany 2026, Katrin Sikora). How can trauma be overcome? The evacuation of children to the countryside in post-war Germany has left its mark.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee megaherz Student Award, #With film talk, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #Family and Relationships, #@home

Reframing History

Films exploring how the past shapes our present
AMÍLCAR (Cabo Verde, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden 2025, Miguel Eek). Amílcar Cabral: Revolutionary, poet and leader in the struggle against colonial rule.
#Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #History, #Essay, #@home, #With film talk
HEART OF THE SEAL – BB Phoque (France 2025, Tito González García). Seal hunting in Greenland: An Inuit family faces pressure amid cultural change.
#Migration and Displacement, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #Environment and Nature, #@home
MATERIA PRIMA (Germany 2026, Jens Schanze). A new natural resource, old structures: Bolivia between colonial history and the lithium boom.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #Environment and Nature, #Economy and Business, #@home, #With film talk
MEANWHILE IN NAMIBIA (Germany, Namibia 2026, Jonas Spriestersbach). The injustices of the German colonial era in German South West Africa continue to have an impact in Namibia to this day.
#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home, #With film talk
MEMENTO MURI (DOK.shorts) (Italy 2025, Jonathan Bugiel). “Fortress Europe”: The Atlantic Wall as a monument to nationalistic hubris – an exploration.
#Nominee megaherz Student Award, #History, #@home, #With film talk

Politics. In times like these

Films about power, freedom, and human rights
80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS – 80 Angry Journalists (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway 2026, András Földes, Anna Kis). Joint resignation in the fight for press freedom: 80 journalists leave the editorial office.
#Politics and Society, #With film talk, #History, #@home
CHANGE MY MIND – VELKÝ VLASTENECKÝ VÝLET (Czech Republic 2025, Robin Kvapil). Three Czech pro-Putin supporters on the Ukrainian front: Can their ideology withstand reality?
#With film talk, #History, #@home, #Politics and Society
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