From protégée to dictator
RUSSIA: A glimpse into Vladimir Putin‘s rise to power – from his early promises of media freedom to the flagrant disregard of democratic norms.
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.
Austrian nazism revisited
The Waltz of Waldheim poses the question whether a fascist threat suppressed and unexamined on a national scale has ever really been defeated.
Rwanda’s calm after the storm
Inkontanyi by Christophe Cotteret is a detailed film about the history of internal conflict in Rwanda up to its situation today.
Leena Pasanen
DOK LEIPZIG: The theme this year is Post-Angst, and is inspired by the idea that we are now living a dark period politicall
Communism: Beyond Images of Ideology
COMMUNISM (1917–): This year’s retrospective programme at DOK Leipzig is comprised of films of different geographical origins that rotate around some key terms in the history of communism.
A Doll in the Mud
Behrouz Nouranipour’s documentary portrays three tortured and raped under-aged Syrian girls.
Solidarity?
The West is increasingly being driven by populism and xenophobia, and time has come to exercise disobedience against the state powers.
