DOK Industry News
DOK Industry offers networking opportunities with the highest-quality for German and international decision makers and funders in a cosy, laid back atmosphere. This is the meeting place for artistic documentary and a hub for interactive and immersive arts practitioners and experts.
- 250+ commissioners, buyers, distributors, sales agents, funders and festival programmers
- 250+ producers
- More than 1,100 scheduled individual meetings at the Co-Pro Market and Industry Connections
- 50+ industry events including insightful talks, conferences, master classes, DOK Archive Market, DOK Exchange XR Conference
- Daily networking receptions
- Project presentations from all over the world
- DOK Film Market Library for buyers, distributors and festival programmers featuring 200+ current titles
- Podcasts featuring exciting and inspiring professionals
- Access to the entire DOK Leipzig film programme
#DocSafe is a collaborative initiative aimed at fostering a safer, more accountable, and inclusive global documentary industry.
In October 2024, DocSafe curated a series of roundtables at DOK Leipzig, building on discussions from the Durban FilmMart earlier that year. These sessions explored five core themes—Cultural Safety, Political Safety, Sexual Harassment, Abuse of Power, and Accountability and Restorative Justice—with Curatorial Justice as a cross-cutting concern.
A report available for download below summarises the key insights and developments from those conversations, offering a foundation for continued dialogue, advocacy, and collaborative action across the documentary field.
Festival Recap 2022

DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.


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