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Join us for discussions with filmmakers, get insights into their work processes, and celebrate the Dove winners with us at the end of the festival week. We look forward to welcoming you to our events and talk programme.
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DOK Talks

Writing Life – in Conversation with Claire Simon
Tuesday, 28/10, 16:00 | Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

 

French filmmaker Claire Simon, who will be opening this year’s festival with her new film, will talk about her cinematic approach and themes in a conversation with the festival director. In her films, she combines documentary and narrative techniques to portray social microcosms at the intersection between the political and the private.

Moderator: Christoph Terhechte

Language: English

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Festival Visions – Christoph Terhechte in Conversation with the New Director of DOK Leipzig
Thursday, 30/10 11:30 | Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

 

After six years as DOK Leipzig’s festival director, Christoph Terhechte will introduce his successor in a conversation about past and new challenges facing the festival management. What will the next chapter of DOK Leipzig look like?

Moderator: Christoph Terhechte

Language: German

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animation@DOK Leipzig – Behind the Screens
Thursday, 30/10 16:00 | Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis

Out of the dark cinema back to the lighted worktable. Three filmmakers take us on a tour through the production stage of their films. What lies behind the various frame-by-frame animation techniques that light up the screen, sometimes elaborate, sometimes minimalist? An easy-to-access insight into working with animation.

Moderator: Jana Kraft

Language: English

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Masterclass: Lee Anne Schmitt

The work of Lee Anne Schmitt draws on the full cinematographic toolbox of the essay film to reveal the US’s myriad historical and ideological fault lines. This hommage brings together her four feature length films to date, including 2025’s acclaimed, shattering “Evidence”, and pairs them with shorts from across her career.

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11:30 – Free admission | Zeitgeschichtliches Forum
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Masterclass: Punto y Raya

With Punto y Raya, the Animated Film Hommage honours for the first time a festival and an international platform at the interface of fine arts and new technologies. Punto y Raya makes an important contribution to the visibility of an art form dedicated to audiovisual work in its most elementary aspects: form, colour, movement, and sound.

In the masterclass, we meet the team behind Punto y Raya. Nöel Palazzo (co-director, curator, producer at PyR) and colleagues talk about personal highlights, important classics and the work of the PyR institution as a hub for the production, distribution and promotion of abstract moving images.

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11:30 – Free admission | Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis
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Animation Perspectives

A blind date between two artistic positions: The two female animation directors examine common ground, explore differences, and give each other and the audience insights into their films and work processes. We can look forward to a dialogue about absurd humour, poetry in space, experimental narratives, precise timing, and abstract love.

Réka Bucsi_Niki Lindroth von Bahr

In absurd modern fables featuring approachable anthropo- morphic animals, Niki Lindroth von Bahr tackles the thorny issues of our society with subtle humour and melancholy musical songs.

Réka Bucsi pulls luminous threads from the darkness to weave an almost intangible “in-between”: futuristic, surreal, and populated by seemingly cute figures.

Featuring the films:

  • „The Burden“, „Something to Remember“ „Tord and Tord“ by Niki Lindroth
  • „Symphony No. 42“, „Solar Walk [excerpt]“, „Intermission“, „Love“ by Réka Bucsi
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21:00 Animation Perspectives | Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Animation Night

The Video Synthesizer. Exploring a Lost History of Electronic Animation

 

The video synthesizer, a piano for making and manipulating mov- ing images, has gone through many phases since its inception in the 1950s. Through an evening of film, talks and live audio/visual performance, we will dive into this little known field of moving image history and explore the video synth as a tool for contemporary visual experimentation.

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20:00 Animation Night | Schaubühne Lindenfels
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5x5 Shorts from the East

On Saturday, 2 November, we invite you to celebrate “5x5 Shorts from the East” at the Polish Institute! In cooperation with film institutions from the region, the event will present 25 short documentaries and animations from Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia and the Czech Republic.

The evening works on the hop on, hop off basis. You can drop in when you like. Admission is free!

Under the Endless Sky“
Alexandra Dzhiganskaya | Austria, Ukraine 2022, 4 min

„The Still Life of Vera“
Greta Stocklassa | Czech Republic 2015, 9 min

„Humachinoid“
Kalju Kivi | Estonia 1995, 7 min

„Your Father and I Don’t Usually Talk About Such Things“
Dávid András Szabó | Hungary 2025, 13 min

„Neptune“
Tereza Dodoková | Slowakia 2018, 5 min

„Troia“
Andriy Naumenko | Ukraine 2022, 3 min

„Red Shoes“
Anna Podskalská | Czech Republic 2021, 14 min

„Kissing Your Tongue“
Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash | Estonia 2022, 10 min

„Ghost Town“
Martin Herr | Hungary 2023, 16 min

„Poisoned Well“
Radek Ševčík | Slowakin 2023, 14 min

„Growths“
Elina Pupina | Belgium, Ukraine 2023, 7 min

„Touching Darkness“
Jamaica Kindlová | Czech Republic 2024, 4 min

„Code“
Rao Heidmets, Pauline Heidmets | Estonia 2021, 10 min

„Distance“
Dorottya Zurbó | Hungary 2017, 7 min

„Rosso Papavero“
Martin Smatana | Slowakia 2015, 6 min

„From the Past“
Hanna Palamarchuk | Czech Republic, Ukraine 2023, 2 min

„Sisters“
Andrea Szelesová | Czech Republic 2021, 12 min

„Hilda Ha. Off the Grid“
Eeva Kübar | Estonia 2024, 19 min

„Daughter of Don Juan“
Dorottya Márton | Hungary 2022, 17 min

„forests and coasts near zingst“
Peter Podolský | Slowakia, Czech Republic 2022, 6 min

„Dacha“
Iryna Babanina | Czech Republic, Ukraine 2023, 3 min

„Dede Is Dead“
Philippe Kastner | Czech Republic 2023, 9 min

„Incipit vita nova“
Hardi Volmer | Estonia 1992, 13 min

„Animal Farm“
László Szabó, Ilona Szekeres, Pedro Vinícius, Marina Kalleny | Hungary 2021, 11 min

„Criss Cross“
Nina Rybárová | Slowakia, Czech Republic 2023, 8 min

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17:00 Free admission | Polnisches Institut
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