The film programme of the 40th DOK.fest München: In the cinema. At home.

Presale starts on 24 April 2025.

 

DOK.international Main Competition
ACASA, MY HOME (Finland, Germany, Romania 2020, Radu Ciorniciuc). Not far from Bucharest a family lives at one with nature – until they are forced to give way to a conservation area.
#System critics and new visions, #Nominees DOK.fest Award SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #Caucasus, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
BABENCO: TELL ME WHEN I DIE – BABENCO: ALGUÉM TEM QUE OUVIR QUE OUVIR O CORAÇÃO E DIZER: PAROU (Brazil 2019, Bárbara Paz). An acclaimed director passes away. His wife dedicates a film to him. A tribute to the vitality of cinema.
#While stocks last, #Latin America, #For cinephiles, #The art of the hour
HONG KONG MOMENTS (Germany 2020, Zhou Bing). Snapshots from the centre of Hong Kong’s democracy protests.
#System critics and new visions, #Asia
LE CHANT D'EMPÉDOCLE – THE SONG OF EMPEDOCLES (Canada 2019, Sylvain L'Espérance, Marie-Claude Loiselle). An interstellar film experience where philosophy and the senses meet.
#Southern Europe, #For cinephiles
PUNKS – Rotjochies (Netherlands 2019, Maasja Ooms). They system couldn’t contain them and now they live in exile. Will the three “punks” get to grips with their life in France?
#Nominees DOK.fest Award SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit, #A hero's journey, #For cinephiles, #France and Benelux, #DOK.4teens
QIANG'S JOURNEY (China 2019, Tunzi Gao). After the earthquake in Wenchuan: in search of the old gods in a new home.
#What about religion?, #Asia
SONGS OF REPRESSION (Denmark 2020, Estephan Wagner Marianne Hougen-Moraga). A site of torture turned holiday destination: the “Villa Baviera” of the former Colonia Dignidad.
#While stocks last, #Latin America, #The Human Stain
SUNLESS SHADOWS (Iran, Norway 2019, Mehrdad Oskouei). Moments of lightheartedness when they are suspected by nobody: the journeys through life of young Iranian women in prison.
#Middle East, #The Human Stain
THE DISRUPTED (United States 2020, Sarah Colt, Josh Gleason). The American dream and existential angst: on the USA’s disappearing middle class.
#System critics and new visions, #North America
THE EUPHORIA OF BEING – A LÉTEZÉS EUFÓRIÁJA (Hungary 2019, Réka Szabó). 90-year-old holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi in a dance performance that tells the story of her life.
#Only for a short time, #Looking back, #Caucasus, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, #DOK.4teens, #The art of the hour
THE SELF PORTRAIT (Norway 2020, Margreth Olin, Katja Hogset, Espen Wallin). Illness as a source for art? Lene Marie Fossen’s legacy in poignant images.
#Northern Europe, #The art of the hour
THE UNSEEN (Iran 2019, Behzad Nalbandi). Homeless women in Iran become invisible. Animated cardboard figures give their stories a face. – This film is available in our online film library DOK.fest @home Selection: www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Selection
#Middle East, #The Human Stain
UNE FEMME, MA MÈRE – A WOMAN, MY MOTHER (Canada 2019, Claude Demers). A son tells the story of the woman who did not want to be his mother.
#North America, #For cinephiles
VIVOS (Germany 2020, Ai Weiwei). The artist Ai Weiwei unravels a scandalous abduction case in Mexico.
#System critics and new visions, #Latin America, #The Human Stain

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