DOK.fest München
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DOK.fest München 2026 opens submissions for 41st edition
Submissions have opened for the 41st edition of #DOK.fest München#, which will take place from 6–17 May 2026 in cinemas across Munich and from 11–24 May 2026 on the festival’s nationwide digital platform, DOK.fest München @home. Filmmakers, producers, students, composers and inclusive film teams are invited to submit new work for one of Europe’s key…
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Melt
CLIMATE: Geyrhalter’s latest observes global snowscapes and people amid tourism and research, documenting vanishing ice, extreme weather, and urgent climate-policy questions.
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Death of Death
AI: An unsentimental tour through longevity gurus, robotic promises, and icy vaults, challenging who benefits when death becomes monetizable by technology.
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Nova ’78
CONTROL: An electrified archive of 1978’s Nova Convention with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Cage, Smith colliding in a space where theory met punk poetry on 16mm.
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Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!
HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
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9-Month Contract
CAPITALISM: It's not just Georgia where are women trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.
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Unwelcomed
MIGRANTS: This ambitious debut documentary, years in the making, captures Venezuela’s migrant crisis and Chilean radicalisation in urgent cinematic testimony.
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Life and Other Problems
HUMANITY: Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?
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DOK.fest München 2025: The complete winners
The 40th edition of #DOK.fest München# concluded with an awards ceremony on Sunday, marking four decades of one of Europe’s leading documentary film festivals. The top award, VIKTORIA DOK.international, went to Silent Observers by Eliza Petkova (Bulgaria/Germany, 2024), a striking experimental work that observes life in a remote Bulgarian village through the eyes of animals.…