All Year Round

All Year Round

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From audience favourites and insider tips to documentaries and animated films for children and adults alike, a number of DOK Leipzig films can be seen outside the festival all year round. We will keep you up to date on films that are running in cinemas or available from the comfort of home.
In der Osthalle vom Hauptbahnhof ist eine Kinoleinwand aufgebaut, viele Menschen sitzen auf Stühlen und schauen einen Trailer, in dem eine animiert Taube zu ihrem Nest voller Eier und Gewichten fliegt.
Film screening at Leipzig’s main station 2024
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DOK Days

Join us at our monthly cinema date in Leipzig! We are looking forward to sharing cinema evenings with you outside of our festival week. At the DOK Days, we show festival highlights and audience favorites in selected cinemas in Leipzig and the region. As soon as our next DOK Day is set, you’ll know all about it in this space.

Cinema Releases

These DOK Leipzig films are soon screening in theaters in Germany.
A male-presenting person is sitting in a hairdresser's salon and watches themselves in the mirror
wo/men
Starting in the cinemas: 15/5

Directed by: Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin

A portrait of six Albanian “Burrneshas”, women in the social roles of men, who have been going against the grain of the country’s patriarchal structures with wit and courage for decades.

https://www.missingfilms.de/index.php/filme//402-women
A still from Barbara Morgenstern
Barbara Morgenstern – Doing It for Love
Starting in the cinemas: 15/5

Directed by: Sabine Herpich

The pioneer of electronic living-room pop works on her new album. Step by step, the intimate experiment goes public. Music becomes a shared safe space.

/en/film/barbara-morgenstern-und-die-liebe-zur-sache/archive
Eine Wandergesellin steht an einem Straßenrand und hält mit ausgestrecktem Arm den Daumen hoch
Lichter der Straße
Starting in the cinemas: 4/4

Directed by: Anna Friedrich

What does it mean to lead a nomadic life in Germany today? This film explores the potentials of a vagabond existence in a world of settlement permits and garden fences.

https://sonar.film/films/lichter-der-strasse/
Still from Sisterqueens
Sisterqueens
Starting in the cinemas: 6/3

Directed by: Clara Stella Hüneke

Jamila, Rachel and Faseeha – aged 9, 11 and 12 – belong to the Sisterqueens rap crew. In their rhymes, the friends raise poignant questions about self-determination and identity.

https://dropoutcinema.org/sisterqueens/
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