DOK.fest München is one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe with a focus on long, creative and international documentaries. We show around 120 films from over 40 countries and host filmmakers from all over the world. In 2023 we will celebrate our 38th festival edition.
DOK.fest Munich is aimed at all lovers and friends of long and creative documentary films. Every year in May, around 120 films from over 40 countries are shown in Munich. We show our film program at a wide variety of venues in Munich city center and since 2020 we have also been coming to your living room as DOK.fest München @home. The events of our industry platform DOK.forum, the educational program DOK.education and the Africa focus DOK.network Africa also take place during the festival. In order to realize all this and guarantee our guests a good time, we need your support!
We love cinema documentaries as an art form that uses cinematic aesthetics to negotiate relevant values and invite intercultural dialog on a social, artistic and personal level. Documentary film, in all its diversity, is both artistically valuable and socially relevant, making it the art of the hour. As a film festival rich in tradition, we need the cinema as a place for the best possible representation of documentary film culture and as a place for encounters and exchange.
Our task as a festival is to bring these important films and the audience together. We have been increasingly successful in this over the past few years. DOK.fest München is now the largest festival of its kind in Germany with a wide international reach and relevance. With the 2020 online edition, we went completely online at short notice in a tour de force due to the lockdown and were immediately very well received by the audience and participating rights holders. We were even able to give the cinemas a share of the proceeds.
As one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe, we see it as our duty and responsibility to create a vision and concrete perspective for the future of cinema documentaries - and not just for the upcoming festival edition in May 2024. Rather, we are aware that now is the moment in which we can shape the future significance of documentary film in society. There will be no going straight back to yesterday. And the best way to predict the future is to help shape it yourself.
As a volunteer (m/f/d) you can help shape the festival and be involved in the following areas:
