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DOK Leipzig
Located in Leipzig, Germany
DOK LEIPZIG is one of the world’s leading festivals for documentary and animation films, unique in combining these two disciplines in its festival history of more than 60 years. Every year at the end of October, the festival attracts more than 47,000 viewers and presents more than 300 films from all over the globe.
The artist’s talking head
World Premiere in Leipzig: A documentary positioned in the crossfire between a semen-squirting penis and milk-spouting breasts.
Letter to an unhappy painting
The daughter Sara Broos decided to make a documentary to get closer to her mum, the renowned Swedish painter, Karin Broos.
PIOTR STASIK: «When something is very difficult, magical things can happen.»
Piotr Stasik is a facinating, independent voice on the Polish film arena. We spoke to him on the topics of love, freedom, New Yorkers and Europeans – and his recent essay documentary 21 X New York.
Sex and metropolitan living
The metropolitan symphony 21 X New York portrays the iconic metropolis through 21 of its citizens, focusing on what to do or what not to do in a city that never sleeps.
THE LEIPZIG NETWORKING DAYS: A conversation starter
The idea of men being protagonists in a women’s rights story had solicited both extreme enthusiasm for freshness and a call for caution
DOK LEIPZIG 2012: The intricacies of the human condition
Documentary film festivals like DOK Leipzig have increasingly embraced creative documentaries that push the envelope, which feel like “movies” and could easily “pass for fiction films”. Strong political content with a distinct artistic vision and creative storytelling
Animadocs 2013
DOK Leipzig: Today more creative techniques like comics, drawings, puppet animation, photographs, graphic novels and paintings, indicate the growing recognition of animation as an art form.
Leipzig 2010: A personal vision
At the festival four animation programs contained Animadok, Neue Deutsche Animation, the Anima Für Kinder program and Pink Elephants. If real life can be intensely surreal, there is no better cinematic tool to explore surrealism than animation.
Leipzig 2010: Current conditions
346 films from 58 countries, 145 visiting directors – this year’s 53rd Leipzig documentary film festival could hardly be described as greater than the sum of its parts. Within one short week, who could possibly tell? But some of the peculiar events could easily branch off and become festivals on their own.
DOKLEIPZIG 2006: Digital Market and Peace Doves
DokLeipzig continues to develop its industry events, this year introducing a digital doc market. At the same time the festival also boasts a selection of high-class films.
DOK LEIPZIG 2005: Showing Good Films Is Not Enough
Traditionally, the Leipzig festival was the main doc festival for Eastern Europe, so when the Wall fell in 1989, the festival endured some difficult years.