DOK.fest München
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DOK.fest München: «We decided to make our curatorial line speak for itself»
INTERVIEW: Deputy Managing Director Adele Kohout and Head for DOK.network Africa Barbara Off discuss the festival's evolution, role within the European documentary landscape, and the significance of its thematic programming.
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DOK.fest München celebrates 40th edition with ambitious 2025 programme
The 40th edition of #DOK.fest München# is scheduled from May 7–18, 2025, in cinemas across #Munich, complemented by an online component running May 12–25. The festival will showcase 105 films from 58 countries. Thematic Sections and Highlights The festival’s comprehensive programme includes 16 thematic sections addressing contemporary global issues: Never Again Is Now?: Revisiting historical…
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DOK.forum 2025 to spotlight innovation and co-production in documentary film
DOK.forum, the industry platform of #DOK.fest München#, returns from 7 to 11 May with a programme emphasising new technologies, narrative trends, and international co-production opportunities. Taking place at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), the event is structured around two main pillars: DOK.forum Perspectives and the DOK.forum Marketplace. DOK.forum Perspectives will explore key…
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How to Build a Library
EDUCATION: Efforts to renovate Kenya’s historic libraries reveal how fragile democracies manipulate cultural spaces for control, suppression, and neocolonial interests.
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«Let’s Talk Climate!» – African Encounters 2025 at DOK.fest München
Since 2013, #DOK.fest München# has maintained a thematic commitment to the African continent. Through its African Encounters strand, the festival offers a platform in Germany for African documentary filmmakers and intercontinental dialogue. In 2025, this initiative turns its focus to #climate justice, addressing the entangled legacies of ##colonialism and environmental crisis under the motto Let’s…
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Only on Earth
NATURE: Robin Petré’s cinematically sprawling Only on Earth journeys deep into southern Galicia as wildfires rage on.
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The Mountain Won’t Move
NATURE: The poetic rhythms of shepherding life in North Macedonia amidst breathtaking mountain landscapes and modern encroachments.
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The Helsinki Effect
DIPLOMACY: With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck's account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
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We Live Here
NUCLEAR: The first Kazakh documentary to screen at CPH:DOX zeroes in on a family affected by a Soviet-era nuclear test site.