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.

 

 

Personal Memoriams

A look back at great filmmakers
MEINE MÜTTER - SPURENSUCHE IN RIGA - Personal Memoriam Praunheim – MEINE MÜTTER - SPURENSUCHE IN RIGA - Personal Memoriam (Deutschland 2007, Rosa von Praunheim). Searching for clues and contemporary history: Rosa von Praunheim’s attempt to find his biological mother.
#With film talk, #Family and Relationships, #@home
MEINE VÄTER - Personal Memoriam Praunheim (Deutschland 2021, Julia von Heinz). Following the death of her 80-year-old father, Julia von Heinz uncovers his secret double life.
#Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Portrait, #With film talk, #Family and Relationships, #@home

African Encounters

Films and dialogues on resistance and activism
THE PEOPLE SHALL - African Encounters (Kenia 2025, Mark Maina, Nick Wambugu). Kenya's Generation Z proves that activism can lead to political change.
#Politics and Society, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home, #With film talk
THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD - African Encounters – The Woman Who Poked The Leopard (Germany, South Africa, Uganda, United States 2025, Patience Nitumwesiga). The fight of a scientist, feminist, and poet against the Ugandan autocrat Yoweri Museveni.
#Politics and Society, #Migration and Displacement, #Family and Relationships, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home, #With film talk

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
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
WACKEN – HEARTS FULL OF METAL (Germany 2026, Cordula Kablitz-Post). From outdoor village concert to metal mecca: the success story of Wacken Open Air.
#Music, #With film talk, #Ganz großes Kino, #@home, #World Premiere

Interdependence

Films about how We Love and Fight
BECOMING KIM (Germany, South Korea 2026, Susanne Kim). Kimchi & potatoes forever? When her marriage begins to falter, Susanne starts filming herself and her husband to figure out whether love is all it takes.
#World Premiere, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #With film talk, #Limited films, #Family and Relationships, #DOK.4teens, #@home
BETWEEN BROTHERS – Tussen Broers (Belgium, Netherlands 2026, Tom Fassaert). A missing father and unsolved family mysteries: two brothers in search of answers.
#Limited films, #Family and Relationships, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home, #With film talk
ICH ATME DIE GANZE ZEIT (DOK.shorts) – I'M BREATHING ALL THE TIME (Germany 2025, Rosa Gocht). Overwhelming and intangible: an autobiographical search for the root of one's own anxiety.
#With film talk, #Nominee megaherz Student Award, #Family and Relationships, #@home, #World Premiere