What is it like to be invisible? This is what the movie “The Other One” shows us, which deals with a problem that is almost as invisible as the protagonist Johanna. She is eighteen years old, has just finished school and dreams of studying psychology – and she has an autistic little sister. So she […]
The short film “Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen” takes us on a special journey through time in ten intense minutes: the story of the first GDR travel group that was headed for the coveted destination ‘West-West’, namely Mallorca, after reunification. We are immersed in the personal memories of an East German who takes us on […]
The film “An Octopus Destroyed the Moon” begins with the image of an idyllic garden in the heart of Berlin. As the film progresses, we get to know some of the pupils at the August Sander School, an integrative pre-vocational school, who work in this very garden, an outdoor area of the school in Berlin-Friedrichshain. […]
Anyone who still doesn’t understand the title definitely hasn’t seen the film “The Tuba Thieves.” In the USA, a significant number of tubas from school orchestras were repeatedly stolen. However, the film “The Tuba Thieves” doesn’t revolve around these thefts; instead, it’s a portrait of sounds, noises, and tones.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter addresses the COVID-19 pandemic in his latest work, “Stillstand.” While it includes voices from nearly all age groups, it notably lacks input from teenagers. This documentary film is considered important by DOK Spotters but regrettably incomplete.
“Vika” sounds like an intriguing documentary about an extraordinary woman defying stereotypes in her mid-80s as a DJane in Warsaw. The film, directed by Agnieszka Zwiefka, serves as an engaging entry into the DOK Festival, offering a glimpse into Vika’s unique life.
“Where are you from? Do you have a home?” Sofia Brockenshire, the director of “The Dependents”, deals with this question in her film. Together with her family, she moved to a new country every few years until adulthood.
Kornelia und Karolina are aktivists from Poland. They try to provide refugees who want to flee from Belarus across the border to Poland with food, water, clothes and medicine. “Border Conversations” tells about their everyday life.
Lilian from Guatemala hopes for a better life in the USA. Thus, the caravan with Lilian, her 4 children, her grandmother and the camera team begins the 4000 km long journey through Central America.
In her feature film debut “May God Be With You”, Cléo Cohen embarks on a personal search for traces of her own identity and roots. The young Frenchwoman has an identity crisis: Is she Jewish? Arab? Even her grandparents seem unclear about this. Cléo struggles for clarity: intensely, playfully.
This year the Virtual Reality projects of DOK Neuland are shown under the titel: “No Chaos No Change”.
“What is the point of the film?” asks a passer-by. “I don’t know myself,” answers Pawel – filmmaker of the “Balcony Movie”.