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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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SCARLET GIRLS – Niñas Escarlata (Dominikanische Republik, Mexiko, Deutschland 2026, Paula Cury). Abortion as criminal offence: Young women in the Dominican Republic risk prison sentences—and their lives.

#Politics and Society, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.horizonte, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Family and Relationships, #Body, #@home, #With film talk

THE CULPRITS – Les Culpables (Spain 2026, Marta Duran Lozano). Breaking taboos and breaking free: Marta is giving a voice to anonymous abortion stories.

#Politics and Society, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #DOK.4teens, #Body, #@home, #With film talk

THE KARTLI KINGDOM – ᲥᲐᲠᲗᲚᲘᲡ ᲪᲮᲝᲕᲠᲔᲑᲐ (QARTLIS TSKHOVREBA) (France, Georgia, Qatar 2025, Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel). Kartli Kingdom, a rundown sanatorium in Tbilisi, becomes a safe haven for refugees.

#Politics and Society, #Migration and Displacement, #Family and Relationships, #@home, #With film talk

TO DANCE IS TO RESIST (Germany, Ukraine 2026, Julian Lautenbacher). From dance to resistance: queer dancers persevere in Kyiv.

#With film talk, #Portrait, #Politics and Society, #Only in cinemas, #Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQIA+, #Equality and Inclusion, #Culture and Art

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EcoCinema

Films about the world at tipping point

DAS GEWICHT DER WELT – THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD (Germany 2026, Florian Heinzen-Ziob). Feelings or facts? In light of the climate crisis, three scientists are taking action.

#With film talk, #Science and Future, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.deutsch, #Ganz großes Kino, #Environment and Nature, #World Premiere

LA PIETÀ (Iceland, Lithuania, Spain 2025, Rafa Molés, Pepe Andreu). Where the world is melting, the crackling ice sings its swan song.

#Environment and Nature, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #With film talk, #@home

MELT (Austria 2025, Nikolaus Geyrhalter). What if snow and ice disappeared forever? A journey to places that will soon no longer exist.

#Environment and Nature, #With film talk, #@home

NUISANCE BEAR – Nuisance Bear (Canada, United Kingdom, United States 2025, Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden). When polar bears and humans come face to face: Climate change is causing habitats to overlap.

#Environment and Nature, #Only in cinemas, #Nominee VIKTORIA DOK.international, #Ganz großes Kino, #DOK.4teens

SYSTEMWANDELN – DIE WELT NEU ENTDECKEN (Germany 2026, Mickel Rentsch). A bicycle road movie, lots of encounters, a panoramic view of our society, and a glimpse of what a truly sustainable world might look like.

#Economy and Business, #World Premiere, #Environment and Nature, #Politics and Society, #With film talk, #DOK.4teens, #@home

WE HAVE TO SURVIVE (Austria, France, Slovakia 2026, Tomas Krupa). Four locations in a changing world – stories of courage, survival, and hope.

#Politics and Society, #Environment and Nature, #Economy and Business, #@home, #With film talk

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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, #With film talk, #History, #Equality and Inclusion, #@home

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

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