Witness in the cinema

The weather is getting worse. The good news is yet to Wednesday, 9 May you can contact the International Documentary Film Festival cinema lovers nest.

As early as the 27th Times are shown in cooperation with the film Munich eV at selected locations in Munich current artistic documentaries. The festival presents 125 films from 37 countries and invites to lectures, discussion, debates and practical workshops.
As early as last Wednesday, the festival with the Germany premiere of the movie "The Apartment" by Arnon Goldfinger opened. The film tells the story of a Jewish man who was clearing out the attic at his grandparents learns that this friend of an influential family were Nazis. A second performance of the film takes place on Friday 4 May by 16 clock instead of the Film Museum, where the director Arno Goldfinger presents his film itself.
Guests of this year's film festival is Arabia. In the series of five films DOK.guest and the Arab region are presented. At the center of the political upheavals in the Arab countries are the experiences during the revolution and the question of the sustainability of the hoped-for social change.
Thus, the film employs "Words of Witness" with the aftermath of the revolution in Egypt. Protagonist is a young Egyptian Heba Aflfy. As a journalist for the English edition of the daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported they may finally free - and now has to struggle against the opinion that a decent girl alone has no business being on the road no. "Words of Witness," the film director Mai Iskander is on Saturday at 16.30 in lecture hall Gasteig and shown on Wednesday at 18 clock at the Ethnological Museum. 
Political fabric from Germany
Apart from the different foreign films in the series DOK.deutsch numerous German films are presented. The world premiere of the movie "Hot Time" takes place on Friday at 19.30 clock in the ARRI cinema. Knut Karger, the director makes his movie itself, which deals with climate change and its impacts. In discussions with farmers, scientists and engineers from different countries to tell them why only one life with nature and not against it secures our future. Further performances of the film: Monday, 7 May at 19.30 in the Rio 2 and Tuesday, 8 May by 18 clock in the Catholic Academy.
Fictional truths
New item on the program this year is DOK.fiction. The film series explores the already fluid boundary between fictional and documentary film and makes the answer to the question "What is a documentary film," even more difficult. "Silver Forest" by Christine Repond show - exclusively by amateur actors embodies - the dead-end life of a village youth, the 15-year-old Sasha can get into a group of neo-Nazis. The film is played on Sunday, 6 May 1st by 17 clock in the studio The program also includes a number of DOK.fiction Mockumentaries short to be shown in cooperation with the Hamburg Short Film Agency.

The 2012 retrospective is devoted to this year, Wim Wenders and his documentary work. Besides his fictional films, Wenders was early on as a director of documentary work. His personal struggle with the death of his close friend, Nicolas Ray, he worked in the movie "Nick's Film - Lightning over Water". He is shown on Wednesday, 9 May 20 clock at the Film Museum. More Wim Wenders documentary program in the retrospective are "Tokyo-Ga" and "Notebook on Clothes and Cities", in which the director shows his interest in Japanese culture.

By Wednesday the DOK.fest still offers a concentrated program of documentaries from various countries, genres and a variety of topics. During the festival period each day three festival venues for talks between film enthusiasts, visitors and directors are open. The film industry, to load the food Dok.Fest Lounge at the Film Museum and the Dok.forum in the School of Film and Television, drink and free Internet use for festival visitors.