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.

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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.

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.

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.

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