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
© Lukas Diller
An illustration of a red sandal with its price tag saying "DOK Leipzig". Next to it the German text "Sommerkino, 26.6.-7.8.2025
Stefan Ibrahim
Summer Cinema

Dreamy summer nights are coming and we bring you the best documentary film programme to enjoy them with. From 26 June to 7 August, we will screen four film highlights and audience favourites from the last year in three of Leipzig’s open air cinemas.

You can get tickets via the respective cinema partner and at the box office. We’re looking forward to your visit and to summer cinema nights together!

Thursday, 26 June

Sabbath Queen (CSD Special)
Luru-Kino (Open-Air)
Film starts at 22:00

Thursday, 10 July 

Sisterqueens
2cl Sommerkino at Conne Island
Film starts at 21:30

Thursday, 24 July

Balomania
Summer cinema at the Plagwitzer Markthalle 
Film starts at 22:00

Thursday, 7 August 

Blueberry Dreams
Summer cinema at the Plagwitzer Markthalle 
Film starts at 21:30

Cinema Releases

These DOK Leipzig films are soon screening in theaters in Germany.
Auf einer dunklen Straße zünden ein Kind und ein Mann mit Partyhut eine Silvesterrakete. Zwei weitere Kinder schauen neugierig zu
The Family Approach

Directed by: Daniel Abma

Berührender Einblick in den Alltag der Jugendhilfe. Fünf Jungs in einer Wohngruppe im ländlichen Raum, die sich nach einem Zuhause sehnen. Und Menschen, die versuchen ihnen genau das zu geben.

 

/en/film/im-prinzip-familie
Eine alt wirkende Bushaltestelle ohne Glasflächen mit einer leeren Bank steht am Meer
Moria Six
Starting in the cinemas: 20/5

Directed by: Jennifer Mallmann

Six youths were sentenced for the fire at Camp Moria on Lesbos in 2020. A look back exposes the questionable proceedings of the judiciary and the EU’s political stance on refugees.

/en/film/moria-six/archive
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/
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