International Documentary Film Festival Munich

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The International Documentary Film Festival Munich ( DOK.fest Munich for short ) has been held annually in Munich since 1985 . Since 2001 it has been run by the International Documentary Film Festival Munich e. V. together with Filmstadt München e. V. organizes. The festival's focus is on socially relevant and artistically valuable documentary films . The DOK.fest also includes the industry and young talent platform DOK.forum , the children and youth program DOK.education and the festival in the DOK.tour region . The management and artistic direction is held by Daniel Sponsel, the deputy director is Adele Kohout.

DOK.fest is one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it took place exclusively online, with part of the income going to the cinemas usually involved. From 6 to 24 May 2020, 121 films from 42 countries were presented and seen by more than 75,000 viewers.

history

DOK.fest Munich was founded on the initiative of the Bavarian section of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm (AG DOK), which had set itself the goal of popularizing documentary film and making it accessible to a wide audience. In cooperation with the Verein Filmstadt München, an association of local film initiatives, the 1st International Documentary Film Festival in Munich was launched in 1985 with municipal support. Gudrun Geyer was appointed director, who led the festival until 2001.

After Gudrun Geyer's resignation in 2001, Hermann Barth took on the task of promoting the festival in Munich, Germany and around the world on behalf of the newly founded International Documentary Film Festival Munich eV. The festival has been operating under the brand name DOK.fest with an expanded program since 2002.

In 2009 Hermann Barth resigned and Daniel Sponsel took over the new management with the initial management support of Christian Pfeil. Sponsel relies on the proven successful concept of the nationwide largest festival for long documentary films and expands the program to include the German-language competition DOK.deutsch, the guest series DOK.guest, the retrospective and DOK.education, the children's and youth program. In 2011 he also set up the industry and young talent platform DOK.forum.

The 2020 corona pandemic forced a new concept as DOK.fest München @home this year . In the online edition there were daily awards ceremonies, events and live online discussions with filmmakers in addition to the documentaries. After registering, school classes were given free viewing links with teaching units for three age groups.

Series and prizes of DOK.fest Munich

The DOK.fest Munich festival program is divided into competitions, themed series and specials. A selection of current international documentaries with a length of 52 minutes or more will be shown. For the competition sections, premieres are given special consideration. The fourteen prizes of the festival are endowed with prize money and supplies with a total value of 56,750 euros. The VIKTOR is awarded as part of the three main competitions. The VIKTOR DOK.international is the main prize of the festival.

VIKTOR DOK.international - international competition

  • 2011: The Khodorkovsky case - Cyril Tuschi
  • 2012: Six Million and One - David Fisher
  • 2013: Sur le rivage du monde - Sylvain L 'Espérance
  • 2014: See No Evil - Jos de Putter
  • 2015: Something Better to Come - Hanna Polak
  • 2016: Natural Disorder - Christian Sønderby Jepsen
  • 2017: Nowhere To Hide - Zaradasht Ahmed
  • 2018: The Distant Barking of Dogs - Simon Lereng Wilmont
  • 2019: The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution - Andreas Hoessli
  • 2020: Acasa, my home by Radu Ciorniciuc

VIKTOR DOK.deutsch - German competition

VIKTOR DOK. Horizons

  • 2011: El Mocito - Marcela Said
  • 2012: Bachelor Mountain - Yu Guangyi
  • 2013: A World not Ours - Mahdi Fleifel
  • 2014: Cantos - Charlie Petersmann
  • 2015: Ce qu'il reste de la folie - Joris Lachaise
  • 2016: A Maid For Each - Maher Abi Samra
  • 2017: Motherland - Ramona S. Díaz
  • 2018: Demons in Paradise - Jude Ratnam
  • 2019: Está todo bien - Everything is fine - Tuki Jencquel
  • 2020: THEY CALL ME BABU by Sandra Beerends

Megaherz Student Award (until 2016: Megaherz Film School Award)

  • 2015: If Mama ain't Happy, Nobody is Happy - Mae de Jong
  • 2016: La Fin d'Homère - Zahra Vargas
  • 2017: Per Song - Shuchang Xie
  • 2018: Sand and Blood - Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel
  • 2019: In Search ... - Beryl Magoko
  • 2020: Rules on the tape, at high speed by Yulia Lokshina

FFF documentary film sponsorship award

  • 2011: EL BULLI - Cooking in progress - Gereon Wetzel
  • 2012: Snow - August plow fields
  • 2013: The captain and his pirate - Andy Wolff
  • 2014: In the shadow of Copacabana - Denize Galiao
  • 2015: Mission Control Texas - Ralf Bücheler
  • 2016: Europe, She Loves - Jan Gassmann
  • 2017: Salicelle Rap - Carmen Té
  • 2018: Sooner or later - Pauline Roenneberg
  • 2019: Congo Calling - Stephan Hilpert
  • 2020: Chaddr - Below us the river from Minsu Park

ARRI AMIRA Award

  • 2016: Tempestad - Camera: Ernesto Pardo. Directed by Tatiana Huezo
  • 2017: Cameraperson - Director and Camera: Kirsten Johnson
  • 2018: Caniba - camera and direction: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
  • 2019: Rediscovery - Camera: Phie Ambo and Maggie Olkuska, Director: Phie Ambo

DOK.fest Prize from SOS Children's Villages worldwide

  • 2014: New territory - Anna Thommen
  • 2015: Toto and his Sisters - Alexander Nanau
  • 2016: Sonita - Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
  • 2017: Komunia - Anna Zamecka
  • 2018: The Distant Barking of Dogs - Simon Lereng Wilmont
  • 2019: Bruce Lee & The Outlaw - Joost Vandebrug
  • 2020: Copper Notes of a Dream by Reza Farahmand

Kino Kino Audience Award sponsored by 3sat and Bayerischer Rundfunk

  • 2015: Electroboy - Marcel Gisler
  • 2016: Parchim International - Stefan Eberlein, Manuel Fenn
  • 2017: Miss Kiet's Children - Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
  • 2018: Tackling Life - Johannes List
  • 2019: Another Reality - Noël Dernesch, Oliver Waldhauer
  • 2020: The Euphoria Of Being by Réka Szabó

German Documentary Film Music Prize

  • 2015: Above and Below - Composition: Paradox Paradise ( John Gürtler , Jan Miserre and Lars Voges). Director: Nicolas Steiner
  • 2016: Dreams Rewired - Composition: Siegfried Friedrich. Directors: Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode
  • 2017: 6 years, 7 months and 16 days - The murders of the NSU - Composition: Elias Gottstein. Director: Sobo Swobodnik
  • 2018: Beuys - Composition: Damian Scholl and Ulrich Reuter. Director: Andres Veiel
  • 2019: Stress - Music: Jana Irmert, Director: Florian Baron
  • 2020: The Last Austrians - Music: Klemens Bittmann , Christian Bakanic and Christofer Frank

German Composition Prize

  • 2016: Stray Dogs - Composition: John Gürtler . Directors: Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter
  • 2017: The Secrets of Beautiful Leo - Composition: Alex Maschke, Director: Benedikt Schwarzer, see also: Apprentice of Time
  • 2018: Go back! - Composition: Florian Erlbeck
  • 2019: Mau Ke Mana - Or: Where Are You Going? - Composition: Max Gausepohl, Director: Max Sänger
  • 2020: Awalatje - The midwives of Anna-Marlene Bicking, Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Sonja Kilbertus

VFF Documentary Production Award

  • 2018: Boundless - Stories of Freedom and Friendship - Production: Birgit Schulz (Bildersturm Filmproduktion), Directors: Johanna Bentz, Camilo Colmenares, Sandra Dajani, Madeleine Dallmeyer, Nazgol Emami, Diana Menestrey, Khaled Nawal, Birgit Schulz
  • 2019: Boy Of War - Production: Fabian Driehorst (Fabian & Fred), Direction: Cyprien Clément-Delmas and Igor Kosenko
  • 2020: Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint - Eva Illmer (Production) and Halina Dyrschka (Direction, Production)

Prize of the Münster subtitling workshop (OmU sponsorship prize)

Pitch Award from the House of Documentary

  • 2015: Aliyah - Rafael Bondy
  • 2016: My Jewrovision - Walter Solon
  • 2017: Awalatje - The Midwives - Sarah Noa Bozenhardt
  • 2018: Merci de votre visite - Julia Furer
  • 2019: Chagrin Valley - Nathalie Berger
  • 2020: After the Gods by Jasmine Alakari

DOK.education documentary film award for young people

  • 2015: 1st prize Eine Another Zeit by Verena Wagner, 2nd prize by one who moved out, film group algo, 3rd prize Sophia 2013 by Lilian Robl
  • 2016: 1st Prize Utopia of Differences by Laura Kansy, Viktor Schimpf and Annika Sehn, 2nd Prize A Man's Road by Jonathan Gentz ​​and Victor Sattler, 3rd Prize Music as Refuge by Moritz Spender
  • 2017: 1st Prize Tell Me Mr. Lo by Maya Duftschmid, 2nd Prize Where Life is Different by Theresa Setzer, 3rd Prize My Shirt by Mathis Hauter (with Leon Schreiner, Paul Schober and Eva Böhm)
  • 2018: 1st prize: Maybe - film group algo, state BSZ Alfons Goppel Schweinfurt, 2nd prize: Billy is moving - Daniel Aberl, 3rd prize: Seeing differently - Film group of the Goethe Gymnasium Regensburg, Honorable Mention: Following your conscience - Amelie and Moritz Geiger
  • 2019: 1st prize Nana - Recover Your Smile by Sabine Nering, 2nd prize 3004 KM by Melisa Kocak, 3rd prize: Pepitu Anumu by Rebecca Fischer, Susanne Horban, Isabelle Sohling and Ines Zehetmeier
  • 2020: 1st prize Ben - tell about life , 2nd prize Die alten Gärtnerei , 3rd prize Hummelsteiner Weg , 1st prize for 6- to 11-year-olds Through Munich with Lotte , sponsorship award for documentary film for 6- to 11-year-olds Our life at the moment

Retrospective

British Pathé Archive Award

  • 2019: When the fog clears - Nancy Brandt (Director), Ralf Kukula (Production)
  • 2020: Queen Of Chess by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, Gabor Harmi, Lili Kovacs

FairFilmAward Non-Fiction

  • 2018: Florianfilm
  • 2019: ifage film production

DOK.digital - Prize for new narrative formats

  • 2020: Social Score by Vinzenz Aubry, Sebastian Strobel, Ralph Tharayil and Fabian Burghardt (Sansho Studio)

DOK.education - the children and youth program

DOK.education - the youth section of DOK.fest Munich since 2011 - is aimed at a young audience between the ages of 8 and 18. The documentary film school for school classes offers film screenings accompanied by media education and discussions with filmmakers. In the documentary film school, participants learn to differentiate the way they see films, and they are motivated to transfer this to their own everyday media use in order to become critical and self-confident media users. Education in media education is also offered for teachers as part of DOK.education .

The DOK.4teens label (formerly: 14jugendfrei) identifies films in the festival program that are officially released for an audience of 14 years and over. The usual age rating from 18 years applies to the regular program .

DOK.forum - The industry platform

The DOK.forum sees itself as a think tank for the documentary film industry and as a platform for projects in the development process. The DOK.forum has been taking place at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) since 2011 and has established itself as a permanent meeting point for the German-speaking industry in recent years - with a growing range of options for international filmmakers. The program is divided into two segments:

Public events: DOK.forum Perspektiven

In panel discussions, workshops and case studies, the DOK.forum Perspektiven take a look at the developments in documentary work and invite you to develop visions and impulses and to pursue relevant media policy issues. The public events are aimed at both the industry and the interested festival audience.

Co-production and ideas market: DOK.forum marketplace

The marketplace offers filmmakers the opportunity at moderated roundtables to come into contact with editors and producers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol and to present their concepts. The best student pitch concept will be awarded the House of Documentary Film's Young Talent Award.

Interactive Media (until 2016)

As part of the DOK.forum, the Interactive Media Congress focuses on new documentary formats on the border between film and games. The international program includes case studies and film screenings . The Interactive Media area has been part of the public events since 2016.

The cinemas and venues

The DOK.tour Bavaria

The DOK.tour Bayern has been bringing selected films from the current festival year to cinemas in the Bavarian region since 2011. In 2019, the DOK.tour took place between October and December with five documentaries in 18 cities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b story. In: Dokfest Munich. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München eV, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Adele Kohout. In: Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München eV Accessed on June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DOK.fest Munich. In: Filmstadt München eV. Accessed June 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bernhard Blöchl: Dok-Fest Munich: Films because of corona virus on the Internet. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 6, 2020, accessed June 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ DOK.fest Munich. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The live events from DOK.fest Munich @home , dokfest-muenchen.de, accessed May 9, 2020
  7. ↑ School class excursion to the online film festival , dokfest-muenchen.de, accessed May 9, 2020
  8. ↑ DOK.fest Munich. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
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  10. ↑ a b c The winners of the 34th DOK.fest Munich . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b c d The award-winning films of the 34th DOK.fest Munich . Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ UTW: OmU sponsorship awards. In: subtitel.de. Untertitel-Werkstatt Münster GmbH & Co. KG (UTW), accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  13. ↑ DOK.digital - The Future of Storytelling. In: Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München eV Accessed on June 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ DOK.education. In: DOK.fest Munich. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  15. ↑ DOK.forum Munich. In: DOK.fest Munich. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Venues. In: Dokfest Munich. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München eV, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  17. ↑ DOK.tour Bavaria October 17 to December 4, 2019. In: DOK.fest Munich. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .