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From 24 to 30 October, we’re showing 11 winning films the festival online as VoD for one week throughout Germany. The online offering includes five long documentaries and two film reels with animated and documentary shorts.
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Eine Illustration: Ein pinker Schlüssel (das Festivalmotiv von Dok Leipzig 2022) mit einem Schlüsselanhänger in Form einer pinken Weltkugel.

The Films

Eine Frau mit Nase-Mund-Schutz schaut auf ihr Handy, neben ihr sitzt eine weitere Frau, die gebannt in ihr Gesicht schaut.
Silver Dove German Competition
Border Conversations

If you want to enter the EU, you will come up against borders. So do those who want to help. A stirring film about the “jungle” between Belarus and Poland which turned into a human trap in the winter of 2021.

Director: Jonathan Brunner
30 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Misaligned” and “Sliver Cave”

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Eine tote Motte, die mit Spinnweben bedeckt ist, scheint direkt in die Kamera zu schauen. Sie ist so nah, dass ihre riesigen Augen, Haare und Sensoren sichtbar sind.
Golden Dove German Competition
Dead Birds Flying High

Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882–1940) was only too happy to neglect his duties as a farmer for the loving documentation of a state of nature that is lost today.

Director: Sönje Storm
83 minutes

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Eine ältere Frau steht vor einem Feld und hat ein Bündel an bunten Luftballons in der Hand. die um sie herumschweben.
Golden Dove Competition for the Audience Award + DEFA Sponsoring Prize
Three Women

The portrait of a Carpathian village: In encounters with three independent women, Maksym Melnyk documents rural life in the Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya near the EU border.

Director: Maksym Melnyk
85 minutes

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Eine Transgender Person sitzt mit geschlossenen Augen vor einem roten Vorhang.
Special Mention International Competition
A Hawk as Big as a Horse

In the periphery of Moscow, transgender ornithologist Lydia works at realising her dream to make the “Twin Peaks” universe more and more manifest in her life.

Director: Sasha Kulak
74 minutes

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Eine Animation einer Figur, deren Kopf auf den Schultern eines Berges liegt und die Lippenstift aufträgt. Der Figur folgt eine Wolke, die ein etwas besorgtes Gesicht macht.
Silver Dove Competition for the Audience Award
Lada, Ivan’s Sister

Entertaining and with childlike ease, this animated documentary shows how easy life can be when you have accepted yourself – and are accepted as a matter of course.

Director: Olesya Shchukina
7 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Will You Look at Me” and “Yonii”

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Eine gezeichnete Frau mit großer Sonnenbrille hält ein großes Küchenmesser hoch, in dem sich ein gelber Mund spiegelt.
Golden Dove Best Short Animated Film
Misaligned

Scenes of a marriage as a minimalist, vibrating black and white animation: A woman and a man in a room. A fly rotates around the lightbulb and the couple around themselves.

Director: Marta Magnuska
7 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Border Conversations” and “Sliver Cave”

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Das Gesicht eines Mannes. Sein Mund ist weit aufgerissen, als würde er schreien.
FIPRESCI Prize
One Mother

An autobiographical and visually ingenious study of growing up (unprivileged), which raises questions about the (un-)interchangeability: of every individual, even a mother.

Director: Mickaël Bandela
86 minutes

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Auf einem Sandweg zwischen einer grünen Wiese und einem Maisfeld gehen zwei Frauen mit einem Hund spazieren. Eine der Frauen hält einen Maiskolben hoch, der Hund setzt zu einem Sprung danach an.
MDR Film Prize
Silent Love

Father, mother, child – there are practically no exceptions to the ideal model family in the conservative part of Poland, and certainly no queer ones. Agnieszka hazards it anyway and takes the risk.

Director: Marek Kozakiewicz
72 minutes

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Zeichnungen aus eingekratzten Linien und Punkten auf einer Metallplatte.
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Sliver Cave

Bizarre animations of strange beauty on a metal plate, set to Free Jazz. Light reflexes. Lines and circles that take on human or insect form, merge and dissolve.

Director: Caibei Cai
14 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Border Conversations” and “Misaligned”

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Der Schatten einer Person fällt auf eine Wand. Sie streckt ihren Arm in die Höhe und winkt.
Golden Dove Best Short Documentary
Will You Look at Me

A young filmmaker’s life plans collide with his mother’s and Chinese society’s expectations. A cinematic confrontation in luminous Super 8 images.

Director: Shuli Huang
20 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Lada, Ivan’s Sister” and “Yonii”

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Ein Mann mit dunklen Locken steht vor einem rosa schillernden Vorhang und hält fünf Rosen vor sich. Eine andere Hand hält weitere Rosen hoch, sodass sie ein V um sein Gesicht bilden.
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Yonii

Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, musician, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as the proud owner of several cultures – by which he is constantly challenged, too.

Director: Julius Gintaras Blum
23 minutes

Available in a short film reel with “Lada, Ivan’s Sister” and “Will You Look at Me”

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Tickets

You can get tickets for the DOK Stream from 24 October 2022. The VoD streaming is limited to Germany and  directly available here on our website. 

Single ticket: 5 €

Payment methods: You can pay tickets using credit card or Paypal.

The payment process takes place directly in the embedded video player that you find on the page of each film available in the DOK Stream.

Validity: Online films are available for 7 days. You ticket is valid for the whole time once purchased. But after you initially started the film, you have 48 hours to complete the screening.

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Questions?

For further questions please contact our online support via dokstream [at] dok-leipzig [dot] de.

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