DOK.fest München
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Death of Death
MORTALITY: A witty and unsettling journey through cryonics, anti-ageing science, and transhumanist fantasy, Death of Death explores the growing pursuit of immortality while exposing the inequality and power that may shape who gets to outlive death.
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Something Familiar
FAMILY: A search for a birth family becomes a nuanced meditation on trauma, shared fates, loss, and self-authorship.
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Whispers in May
CHILDHOOD: Set in China's Liangshan Mountains, the hybrid documentary gently draws us into the world of a 14-year-old girl and her two best friends.
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A Song Without Home
RIGHTS: A trans woman’s life between Georgia and Vienna anchors this striking CPH:DOX documentary about repression, survival, and the limits of liberation.
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DOK.fest München 2026 opens With Ingeborg Bachmann hybrid portrait
The 41st edition of DOK.fest München will open on 6 May at the Deutsches Theater with the world premiere of Ingeborg Bachmann – Someone Who Was Once Me, a hybrid documentary by Regina Schilling starring Sandra Hüller as the celebrated Austrian writer. Set for a German theatrical release on 25 June, which would have marked…
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MARIINKA
UKRAINE A rare glimpse across the lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine, where brother has been set against brother, and families brutalised by conflict.
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Outliving Shakespeare
AGEING: In a remote Armenian retirement home, the clocks are no longer standing still.
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Amílcar
AFRICA: Built from original letters, poems, and political writings, Amílcar offers a subjective, meditative portrait of Amílcar Cabral and the fight for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde’s independence
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The Kartli Kingdom
GEORGIA: Three generations endure postwar exile in a fractured building above Tbilisi.