DOK Leipzig 24

DOK Leipzig has revealed further highlights of the DOK Industry Programme for the 67th festival edition (28 October - 3 November), in addition to the already announced DOK Co-Pro Market Selection, Ex Oriente Film workshop and Generation Ukraine showcase. Other features include DOK Archive Market Screenings and Talks and the DOK Project Presentation Generation Africa 2.0, and more…

Co-produced by ZDF/3sat, the documentary looks at the phenomenon of light from both scientific and artistic perspectives. “Thomas Riedelsheimer’s documentaries are a delightful celebration of light and sound,” says festival director Christoph Terhechte. “They sharpen our senses. Twenty years after opening our festival with ‘Touch the Sound’, we’re proud to be doing it again with Tracing Light.”

DOK Leipzig will undergo a process of self-reflection in 2024 as it examines its own methods of selection during the GDR years. Titled “Third Ways in a Divided World. Utopia and Subversion” the retrospective will “feature a compilation of films that reflect various aspirations of autonomy or view communist and socialist doctrine through a different lens. In this vein, the retrospective also brings up DOK Leipzig’s own history as a festival,” organisers write.

DOK Co-Pro Market unveiled September 12 the 35 documentary project selections for its 20th edition, running 28 October to 29 October in Leipzig, with complementary online meetings scheduled for 5 November. Project teams will be seeking international financing and co-production partners. This year’s crop of projects was culled from 366 submissions.

The 67th edition of DOK Leipzig will pay homage to the two esteemed women filmmakers, French director Dominique Cabrera and Spanish animation artist Isabel Herguera. The festival will also honour the memory of late German director and writer Thomas Heise with a lineup of films, an evening event, and this year’s DEFA Matinee.