Plan your Visit
DOK Leipzig is an annual festival for international and German documentaries and animations that takes place every year in autumn. In 2025, we will celebrate our 67th festival edition in the week from 27 October to 2 November. Read more about the festival in our Profile.
Online ticket sales usually starts two to three weeks before the festival kicks off. Tickets are exclusively available online via our website. Our webshop opens with the programme presentation at our press conference. When the festival starts, you can also buy tickets on location: The box office at our festival centre opens a few days prior to the festival, and during the festival week you can also get tickets at our partner cinemas. You will find all details about tickets, prices and box office opening hours from 9 October 2025 in our Ticket Info.
Each year, several venues in Leipzig turn into DOK cinemas during the festival week. Our festival venues are located across the city. Soon we will provide you with a link to our city map that helps you navigate through Leipzig from one location to another.
You are already planning your Leipzig trip for the next festival edition? You can find some tips how to find us by plane, train or car here.
Guests travelling within Germany can now get 10% discount on their train tickets using the DOK Leipzig Event Ticket with Deutsche Bahn.
The offer is valid for travel to and from Leipzig between 24 October and 04 November 2025. The offer can be combined with other discounts such as BahnCard or Sparpreis.
How to use the discount:
- Open the DOK Leipzig booking platform.
- Search for your connection as usual.
- Book your connection. The discount is already applied to the price shown.
Note: Guests can collect BahnBonus points, but it is not possible to make the booking using a personal Bahn.de account.
Yes, we are pleased to present our programme series Young DOK! Screening daily during the festival week, each Kids DOK programme combines short documentaries and animated films. We offer compilations for different age groups. View the 2025 Kids DOK programme.
We have plenty of festival experience to offer for free! Watch our pop-up cinema films in Leipzig main station east hall free of admission, or join our film screenings at Polnisches Institut. First come, first serve, so try to be there early.
Visit the XR-Exhibition DOK Neuland from 28 October to 2 November for free at Heilandskirche Westkreut and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK). There might be a queue, so please bring along some time and patience.
Further we cordially invite you to our DOK Talks and Masterclasses. Find out more about these events here.
We are committed to making DOK Leipzig as barrier-free as possible. Most of our cinema are barrier-free accessible. This does not apply to all venues. Find detailed information about barrier-free access to cinemas and films here.
We can't do it any sooner. In our competitions we want to show our visitors the latest films just out of the editing room. That's why we call on filmmakers and production companies worldwide to submit their most recent works every spring. The submission deadline is early July, after which our competitions begin to take shape. Over the summer, our selection committee reviews around 2,500 films and nominates the titles for the various categories.
Next come the invitations to the filmmakers, and the creation of the website texts, catalogue and programme booklet. At the same time, our programme team plans the schedule for which films will show in which cinemas during the festival week. By mid-September, the dates and most of the texts are finalised, leaving us just a few days to add everything to our website, print the programme booklets and make technical preparations for ticket sales. Then is it finally time to present the complete programme.
