DOK Leipzig

DOK 2023 Preview: Everything You Need to Know

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DOK 2023 Preview: The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film returns from 8 October to 15 October 2023.

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DOK Leipzig 2022 in review

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The DOK Leipzig Film Festival completely lived up to its great potential as the oldest and one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe. It boasted 246 films in the program and over 41,000 visitors, either digitally or in person. After a number of smaller DOKs, under more acute pandemic circumstances, DOK 2022 brought

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DOK Neuland VR reviews: “The Shape of Us”

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This year's DOK Leipzig festival got to roll out its unique DOK Neuland virtual reality experiences at the Museum der bildenden Künste just before the second lockdown shuttered all cultural institutions. Two of us got to partake in these unique works of art and we now compare and contrast our thoughts on the special extended

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Arid Zone: A chat with filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa

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"The most conservative city in the US?" Filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa talks about how her recent documentary, "Arid Zone," brought her back to a formative place in her youth. #DOKLeipzig

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Photographer of War: three perspectives, one DOK

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LeipGlo contributors Justina, Áine and Heiner all went to see DOK Leipzig 2019 competition entry "Photographer of War" by Boris Benjamin Betram. Their diverging reactions and thoughts on the film are chronicled in our feature.

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Dependency captured in a poetic & tragic 10 minutes

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DRC is seen as one of the world's worst basket cases. In an animated short presented at DOK Leipzig, filmmakers from both the former colony and its European metropole brilliantly illustrate what dependency means for the African country, and our role in it.

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