DOK.fest München Podcast. Im Kino. Zuhause.

ALLES GEHÖRT ZU DIR ist einer der drei kurzen Dokumentarfilme unseres Filmbildungsprogramms Schule des Sehens von DOK.education 2024. Zum Film: Yen ist in Deutschland geboren, ihre Eltern in Vietnam. Seit sie in Norwegen studiert, versteht sie, wie hart es ist, sich in einem fremden Land mit einer anderen Sprache ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Yen lernt, ihre Identität, Ängste und vor allem ihre Stär...

BIS HIERHIN UND WIE WEITER?Deutschland 2023 – Regie: Felix Maria Bühler „Ob sich das gelohnt hat, wenn jetzt zwei unserer Leute ins Gefängnis gehen?“, fragt ein Aktivist in Lützerath nach einem nächtlichen Schlagabtausch mit der Polizei. Gefängnisstrafen gegen Aktivist*innen werden immer länger und härter, und es stellt sich die Frage, ob sich das Engagement angesichts der persönlichen Repression...

MISS KIET’S CHILDRENNiederlande 2016 – Regie: Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster  Jedes Kind kann sich eine Lehrerin wie Kiet Engels nur wünschen. Sie ist streng, aber niemals unfreundlich, liebevoll, aber nie zu nachgiebig – und sie hat eine unendliche Geduld. Miss Kiet arbeitet als Grundschullehrerin in einem kleinen niederländischen Dorf. Ihre Klasse ist eine Integrationsklasse, in der nicht...

ELF MAL MORGEN: BERLINALE MEETS FUSSBALLDeutschland 2024 – Regie: Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Kilian Armando Friedrich,Indira Geisel, Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann, Hannah Jandl, Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Ločmele – Co-Regie: Daniela Magnani-Hüller, Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud, Marie Zrenner Fest steht: fast nirgendwo gibt es so viele Fußballvereine wie in Deutschland. Elf kompilierte...

JENSEITS VON SCHULD Germany 2024 – Director: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec The media call their son the “patient killer.” He was given a life sentence for his numerous crimes. Life goes on for his parents Ulla and Didi Högel but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth, figure out how to cope with everyday life and reposition themselves in relation to their child. A compel...

FRAGMENTE AUS DER PROVINZ Germany 2024 – Director: Martin Weinhart We are colourful. We are diverse and committed – but all you ever read in the headlines is: the Nazi village.” This film does things differently. It takes us through the everyday occurrences in an existential struggle for power, freedom and open reporting. A film about neo-Nazi strategies and East German counter movements that show...

2UNBREAKABLEGermany 2023 – Director: Maike Conway Breakdancing is about more than dancing; it is an identity and an attitude that allows breakers to face life’s challenges with confidence. Injuries become an opportunity to develop further. We follow Joanna and Serhat as they take part in their battles for Olympic qualification. The two share similar backgrounds and are pursuing a future in breakda...

THIS IS MY MOMENT Belgium, France, Netherlands 2024 – Director: Lieven Corthouts Cycling fans are elated when Biniam Girmay becomes the first cyclist from an African country to win a stage of the Giro d’Italia in 2022. The film accompanies Girmay over two years on his difficult path through this still deeply European sport: as a young talent from Eritrea via the world federation training camps to...

THE PICKERS Germany, Greece, Portugal 2024 – Director: Elke Sasse All types of fruit and vegetables are available to us year round – but the effects on the workers who make this possible are ignored. Their picking speed is more important than their living conditions. It quickly becomes clear that Europe is dictated to by the market and not by the people. In THE PICKERS, the camera reveals endless...

OUR LAND, OUR FREEDOM# Germany, Kenya, Portugal, United States 2023 https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/films/our-land-our-freedom In search of the remains of her father, the Kenyan Mau Mau freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi, his daughter Wanjugu meets her father’s former comrades-in-arms. To this day, the veterans are still waiting for the return of their dispossessed land by the Kenyan government and the...

Petra Lataster-Czisch und Peter Lataster ist die Hommage des DOK.fest 2024 gewidmet. Die feinfühlige Annäherung an ihre Protagonist*innen ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt ihrer Arbeit. Im Gespräch mit den beiden geht Filmemacherin Rebecca Zehr auf eine Spurensuche, wie diese Nähe überhaupt entstehen kann, was Vertrauen auf einem Film-Set bedeutet und wie Privates und Berufliches sich vermutlich nie ganz t...

EINHUNDERTVIER Germany 2023 – Director: Jonathan Schörnig 104 refugees, 80 minutes, 6 cameras shooting in parallel. This sea rescue in real-time unfolds over a gruellingly long period of time. Eventually all the refugees from the overloaded, rapidly deflating dinghy are on board the “Eleonore”. Meticulously documented and told entirely from the point of view of the rescue team, this film demonstra...

A dialogue on decolonisation between Africa and Europe In a panel discussion following the film THE EMPTY GRAVE, we brought together the common threads of the four African Encounters films. With the filmmakers from Africa and Europe, we will discuss their views on colonial history. How does colonialism continue to shape our relationship today? And what does the reworking of history have to do with...

SHAHID Germany 2024 – Director: Narges Kalhor Nomadic cinema that tells marvellous stories. What if your surname Shahid means martyr, incorporates generations of political traumas and seems to be getting in the way of your future? Are the hurdles bureaucratic or personal? Which are your own and which belong to others? SHAHID is an artistically interwoven film about a post-migrant family history an...

FILMSTUNDE_23 Germany 2023 – Director: Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz An 8th grade class of schoolgirls embarks on a voyage of discovery. They want to understand how film works. Because, as their teacher Edgar Reitz explains, filmmaking is not simply achieved by turning on the camera and recording something. At first they are passive, but they soon dare to take their first steps and master the technolog...

ECHOES FROM BORDERLAND Germany 2023 – Director: Lara Milena Brose Ferida, a Bosnian, lives within sight of the EU’s external border. Every day she witnesses refugees’ desperate attempts to reach the EU and her memories of violence and war come flooding back. Nahid is 15 years old and is stranded here after fleeing the Taliban. In this hypnotic narrative, the fading echoes of Ferida’s stories and N...

THE ANDERSSON BROTHERS Sweden 2024 – Director: Johanna Bernhardson The film world of the star director Roy Andersson is inhabited by people who are incapable of emotionally connecting to each other. He seems to feel the same about his brothers in real life. THE ANDERSSON BROTHERS, made by his niece, the filmmaker Johanna Bernhardson, is a lovingly told family chronicle about stubborn men and a tal...

THE SILENCE OF 600 MILLION RESULTS Germany 2023 – Director: Sophie Lahusen An unwanted pregnancy – what now? A screenlife film that shows nothing more than the various screens of a young woman looking for an answer. With great panache and a little mockery, this short film shows how we are exposed to a flood of apparently ‘valuable’ clues that point in different directions while scrolling through t...

RESTORATION Germany 2023 – Director: Gudrun Gruber Trauma research has become more visible in recent years, but what if the trauma is directly in front of you? Sabrina’s anxiety, panic attacks and seizures could only be endured by her family because Sabrina did one thing: she never gave up on herself. A film about a courageous woman who insists on not being defined only by her past but on determin...

HAUSNUMMER NULL Germany 2024 – Director: Lilith Kugler Chris is on the floor. Literally. Life on the streets is draining. Every day is a battle: to get money for drugs and with a past that derails him. An exceptionally intense and intimate portrait that gets under your skin about a young man who somehow always carries on. He has a neighbourhood that takes care of him – and his buddy Alex.  Biograp...

MANNSCHAFT Germany 2023 – Director: Tobit Kochanek A group of keen football players looking for fellowship meet every Monday evening on a pitch in Görlitzer Park, the drug dealers’ mecca. The “pack of men with the same mindset” reflect on masculinity, heartbreak and midlife crisis and seem so likeable that you want to go and cheer them on from the side-lines yourself.   Biography Tobit Kochanek  s...

MAÑANA SOL Germany 2023 – Director: Denis Pavlovic Retiring to the Canary Islands is a pensioner’s dream but when Jadranka and Aleksandar Pavlovic arrive there, they separate and live from then on on different islands, five and a half hours apart from each other. In magnificent images and playful montage sequences the film sketches a paradise with a peculiar slant. Nothing is as it seems here. An...

HOLLYWOODGATE Germany, United States 2023 – Director: Ibrahim Nash’at After the USA’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taliban forces take over the former “Hollywoodgate” CIA base, which they see as an “enemy camp.” They are accompanied by the director Nash’at. His footage gives us a unique cinematic experience and a record of contemporary history, that observes the terrorist militia without commentar...

Moderation: Maya Reichert, DOK.education FOLLOWING VALERIA war einer der drei kurzen Dokumentarfilme unseres Filmbildungsprogramms DOK.education 2023. Im Interview mit der Filmemacherin erfahren wir Hintergründe und Wissenswertes zum Thema und zur Machart des Films. FOLLOWING VALERIA Der Film für 15- bis 20-Jährige Nicola Fegg, DE 2022, 32 Min. Zu Beginn des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine wir...

Moderation: Maya Reichert, DOK.education HAMMOUDIS TRAUM war einer der drei kurzen Dokumentarfilme unseres Filmbildungsprogramms DOK.education 2023. Im Interview mit der Filmemacherin erfahren wir Hintergründe und Wissenswertes zum Thema und zur Machart des Films.  HAMMOUDIS TRAUM Der Film für 11- bis 16-Jährige Eefje Blankevoort, Els v. Driel, NL 2022, 25 Min. Hammoudi musste mit 14 aus Syrien fl...