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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.

 

 

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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

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

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

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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

MAGILLIGAN (Ireland, United Kingdom, United States 2026, Ross McClean). Between prison and resocialisation: A thoughtful portrait of a young man.

#Portrait, #Family and Relationships, #@home

MARIINKA (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden 2026, Pieter-Jan De Pue). Five young people, nine years of war in Ukraine, and the question: What does homeland mean?

#Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #With film talk, #Family and Relationships

MATABELELAND (Kenya 2025, Nyasha Kadandara). A forgotten massacre in Zimbabwe and a family searching for peace.

#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #Migration and Displacement, #Family and Relationships, #@home, #With film talk

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

SOMETHING FAMILIAR (Rumänien, UK 2026, Rachel Taparjan). Adopted as a child, the filmmaker sets out to find her siblings and uncovers a dark family legacy.

#Family and Relationships, #@home

THE BEAUTY OF ERRORS (Finland, Sweden 2026, Jukka Kärkkäinen). As his son becomes more and more independent, Tero, a single father, must come to terms with his loneliness.

#Family and Relationships, #@home, #With film talk

TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (Croatia, France, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia 2026, Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić). A fighter in her own right: Gara the shepherdess protects her mountain just as much as she protects young Nada.

#Environment and Nature, #Portrait, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #Family and Relationships

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