All DOK Leipzig articles
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NewsBelarusian director Andrei Kutsila’s ‘Letters From The Silenced Country’ leads winners at DOK Leipzig
Award comes with €10,000 prize and automatic qualification for consideration for the Academy Awards.
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Reviews‘The Nights’ review: Colourful documentary portrait of a working class woman in Buenos Aires
Ana Bovino’s feature documentary world premieres at Dok Leipzig
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Reviews‘>1.5°C Pyropolitics And The New World’ review: Slight but urgent doc observes the human cost of climate change
Austrain filmmaker Lukas Marxt’s study of the 2025 LA wildfires premieres at DOK Leipzig
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Features‘Birds Of War’ producer Sonja Henrici on her new Iran doc ‘The Enemy’ and being based in Scotland
The Edinburgh-based documentary producer is also planning to venture into fiction films.
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Reviews‘Magic Atlas’ review: Chinese-language animation deploys multiple techniques to striking, confounding effect
Sun Xun’s experimental feature plays DOK Leipzig and Tokyo after a Locarno premiere
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FeaturesDOK Leipzig industry head Nadja Tennstedt on taking a different approach to its coproduction event
This year’s CoPro market features several projects focused on the topic of women’s bodies in relation to state structures and heirarchies.
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Features“Filmmakers trust us”: DOK Leipzig’s Ola Staszel on curating her debut edition
Germany’s most important documentary film festival runs from October 26 to November 1.
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Reviews‘Letters From The Silenced Country’ review: Mixed-media documentary proves a raw, disquieting study of Belarusian resistance
Andrei Kutsila’s film plays DOK Leipzig after winning Venice’s Golden Globes Impact prize for documentary
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NewsDOK Leipzig 2026 reveals co-pro market selection
Female filmmakers have directed 50% of the projects being presented.
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News‘Letters From The Silenced Country’: first trailer for Venice, DOK Leipzig documentary
EXCLUSIVE: Film depicts life for individuals under Belarus’ autocracy.
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NewsCroatian director Ivan Ramljak’s ‘Peacemaker’ leads winners at DOK Leipzig
Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver for Endless Cookie wins animation prize, while Cutting Through Rocks by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni takes audience award
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NewsClaire Simon on her Annie Ernaux documentary ‘Writing Life’ and the magic of listening
Source: © DOK Leipzig / Susann Bargas Gomez DOK Talk with Claire Simon Acclaimed French documentary director Claire Simon has an unusual but not very lucrative way to ensure her fans can watch her old films – she makes them available on her website. Anyone ...
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NewsFrom colonial horrors to rebuilding Ukraine, the buzzy documentary projects at DOK Leipzig’s co-pro market
Projects pitched this week at DOK Co-Pro Market received mixed responses from sales agents and festival programmers
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Reviews‘Balentes’ review: Enigmatic Sardinian animation boasts striking visuals but thin story
Giovanni Columbu’s 1940-set equine adventure blends various animation techniques
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NewsSales agents call on filmmakers to regard them as strategic partners rather than an afterthought
Sales agents, speaking on a DOK Leipzig panel, urge documentary filmmakers to work with them from early stages of a project
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FeaturesChristophe Terhechte reflects on six years at DOK Leipzig and gives key advice to his successor
“Maintaining institutional funding, ensuring fair pay, and securing third-party funding” are key challenges going forward.
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FeaturesCo-production markets are becoming more vital than ever, says DOK Industry head Nadja Tennstedt
As financing sources change, doc filmmakers need to work with more partners.
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NewsDOK Leipzig sets Roman Bondarchuk, Gal Rosenbluth projects among 2025 co-pro market selection
Documentary projects by Ukraine’s Roman Bondarchuk, Israel’s Gal Rosenbluth and Germany’s Julia Fuhr Mann among 35-strong line-up at German event.
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NewsThessaloniki and Leipzig festivals launch initiative to support exiled or displaced filmmakers
Doc Together will support filmmakers by giving them access to industry decision-makers and training opportunites.